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Postcard Exhibit: Connections at ElderStreetGallery Houston TX: p17

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:24:21 -0700

I'll be participating with 24 original altered postcards. Each created on existing printed postcards, using mixed media.

Elder Street Gallery hosts “Connections” a benefit for the English Speaking Union Houston Branch - Shakespeare Competition. Artists from 21 countries and 25 US states will be reaching out through art sent on postcards. All work $25. Opening reception Oct 17, 5-9 pm. Closing Oct 31, 2009.

For more information on "Connections" show at Elder Street Gallery, visit the website at www.elderstreetartist.com. Elder Street Gallery is located at 1101 Elder Street, Suite 103, Houston,TX 77007.

Title of Show: Connections: Art Reaching Out From Around The World

Mail art was popularized in the '60s by Ray Johnson of the New York Correspondence School, and many contemporary artists use the art form to express themselves.
All postcard art created on an existing 4"x6" post card or a 5” X 9” post card.
Materials will vary, depending on the technique you choose. Artists create with any technique, and all media, including collage, markers, crayons, pen and ink, colored pencils, rubber stamps, tempera, acrylic, watercolor and printmaking.

The English Speaking Union Houston Branch is a non profit organization dedicated to international relations between the UK and the other countries of the world and the celebration of all things British.

My submitted postcards:
p1. Francis Bacon, Study for a Portrait of Van Gogh 1, 1956
p2. Petits Formats Noel
p3. Kuniyoshi, Hatsuhana prays under a waterfall, c 1842
p4. Josef Wittlich, Madonna mit Jesuski
p5. Tate St Ives, Porthmeor Beach
p6. Stuart Pearson Wright, JK Rowling, 2005
p7. Skull of Nesperennub, priest of Khons
p8. Alexandre P Lobanov
p9. Turbine Hall before conversion
p10. Prunella Clough, Land : Ochre, 1998
p11. Stanley Spencer, Neighbours, 1936
p12. Jerome Fortin, Autoportraits
p13. Claude Simard, Réflections, 2009
p14. World Press Photo 08
p15. Sunlight Soap Series
p16. Elsa Schiaparelli, Evening Dress, c 1935
p17. Around Bridport, Dorset
p18. Engine Gallery, TO
p19. Joan Miro, For Adrien Maeght, 1965
p20. Claude Monet, Water Lilies, c 1920
p21. Frederick Witherington, Fete in Petworth Park, 1935
p22. Christiane Klappert, Sweet, 2004
p23. Shirley Katz, Men in Showers, Women in Jars
p24. Dietrich Vieux Charles III, Count Zborowski in a Mercedes, 1924

See the whole series: marybogdan.com/MBWebsite/postcards.html

Madonna & Child, The Whole Series. A film by Mary Bogdan.

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:32:33 -0700

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

Madonna & Child, The Whole Series. A film by Mary Bogdan.

To see this short film just click here.

A video presenting the whole series of the current works by Mary Bogdan, entitled Madonna & Child, Or Re-Parenting My Inner Child, which deals with the theme of change or the hope of change. The artist addresses the issue of personal evolution in her own unique way through her encounter with the creative process. Within the moments of incidental illuminations that occur along the way, she discovers hope for metamorphosis, leading to transformation and ultimately, transcendence.

The work involves the recycling, recovery, manipulation and alteration of “found” objects and demonstrates the pursuit of reinvention of self, of an approach to life or a way of being. It addresses the shaping of the self through the creation of art, both on a personal and collective level. The work looks at inner struggles and seeks a better understanding of self and its place in our society. It portrays a quest for healing – a way to undo the past or, at least, to understand the present and invent a better future.

Madonna&ChildThis subject and the whole series, in general, came about subconsciously when I realized that all of the individual pieces in this first series on paper, possessed a recurring theme... Madonna & Child (from master paintings). When casually asked by my husband Sol Lang which one I was... Madonna? OR Child?, I perhaps should have said Madonna (mother/woman), but instead, I realized that I in fact had identified more with the child in each of these pieces. I was the child. This was the catalyst which started me thinking about what was going on.... and I began a new series (of prints this time) that also touches this theme, but now I brought in a deeper understanding, which included myself both as mother and (inner) child. I completed a series of ten prints and later a second series of ten. Also in the works, is a video on the subject.

See SERIES 1, limited edition prints here

See SERIES 2, limited edition prints here

madonna & child or re-parenting my inner child, a film by mary bogdan www.lulu.tv/?p=7650
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MarilynMonroe...JackieKennedyO

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:46:58 -0700

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

What the hell happened?

This WAS #1 on EXPLORE for Sept 6, 2005 (see below).... But, recently it just disappeared off the face of the explore page.... What the hell happened? Not even on the page... #1 to nothin'..... What the hell happened?

I'm uploading again a second time, because I'm proud of it, and love to share it with you, and I'm a little wounded... hurts so bad. Could someone have called it "offensive"? What the hell happened?

Mary Bogdan | Paintings, Assemblages, Prints

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 19 May 2006 13:51:15 -0700

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

I've just published my first book... about my art.

A comprehensive 76 page retrospective of selected works by painter and assemblage artist Mary Bogdan, featuring 140 works of art, including combine paintings, works on paper, assemblages and limited edition prints. In the best tradition of the works of Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol.  

Mary Bogdan is a gleaner… In scrap heaps of abandoned or demolished buildings, alleyways and flea markets, she finds rare treasure. Garbage. Remnants of wood and metal, books, boxes, old paintings, all that have been discarded are interesting to her.  

Her work deals with obsolescence. Each “found” object has out-lived its time and has therefore been scrapped. Dead. Mary rescues and assembles them with collected items from her own past. She senses the object’s energy guiding its reincarnation to a higher purpose. Art.  

Mary's unique mixed media works tells stories of passion and anger, strength and weakness, love, hate and fear.

For more info, click here

PREVIEW a few pages, click here

4. maraschino cherries / missionnaires

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:43:21 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

4. maraschino cherries / missionnaires (menagerie series), 2005, 20"w x 14"h, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper

1. gone with the wind / morning prayers

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:43:21 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

1. gone with the wind / morning prayers (menagerie series), 2005, 20"w x 14"h, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper

2. the rival churches / heart hymns

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:43:21 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

2. the rival churches / heart hymns (menagerie series), 2005, 20"w x 14"h, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper

6. lord byron / mathematical tables

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:38:30 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

6. lord byron / mathematical tables (menagerie series), 2005, 20"w x 14"h, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper

5. pernin's universal phonography / manon lescaut

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:38:30 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

5. pernin's universal phonography / manon lescaut (menagerie series), 2005, 20"w x 14"h, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper

9. made in nepal / none but christ

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:38:30 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

9. made in nepal / none but christ (menagerie series), 2005, 20"w x 14"h, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper

10. loi / livre mystique

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:38:30 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

10. loi / livre mystique (menagerie series), 2005, 20"w x 14"h, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper

7. spectacles / après la communion

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:38:30 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

7. spectacles / après la communion (menagerie series), 2005, 20"w x 14"h, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper

impulsiveness

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:04:19 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

impulsiveness, 2002, 29"w x 24"h, mixed media painting on previously-used (by another artist) canvas.

Kind of like interestingness, but more spontaneous. Just next to an on-going garage sale, in a pile of garbage, which the owner had decided no one would want, were her discarded paintings. BUT, she was mistaken... about no one wanting them... My keen eye caught the stash as I was driving home one Saturday afternoon, car full with my husband and in-laws. We stopped the car picked up all the thrown-out canvases (of course, I did ask permission), filled up my SUV and drove home in a happy hurry... my father-in-law sitting in the back seat with canvases on his lap. My mother-in-law aghast.

Art is such an adventure.....

Madonna & Child, The Whole Series. A film by Mary Bogdan.

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:08:24 -0700

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

Madonna & Child, The Whole Series. A film by Mary Bogdan.

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:34:53 -0700

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

Madonna & Child, The Whole Series. A film by Mary Bogdan.

A video presenting the whole series of the current works by Mary Bogdan, entitled Madonna & Child, Or Re-Parenting My Inner Child, which deals with the theme of change or the hope of change. The artist addresses the issue of personal evolution in her own unique way through her encounter with the creative process. Within the moments of incidental illuminations that occur along the way, she discovers hope for metamorphosis, leading to transformation and ultimately, transcendence.

The work involves the recycling, recovery, manipulation and alteration of “found” objects and demonstrates the pursuit of reinvention of self, of an approach to life or a way of being. It addresses the shaping of the self through the creation of art, both on a personal and collective level. The work looks at inner struggles and seeks a better understanding of self and its place in our society. It portrays a quest for healing – a way to undo the past or, at least, to understand the present and invent a better future.

To see this short film just click here.

Les Femmeuses 2006 Exhibition

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:05:24 -0700

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

les femmeuses | april 29 & 30, 2006 | Pratt & Whitney Canada

Mary Bogdan will be one of over 100 women participating in this years exhibition. Pratt & Whitney Canada is hosting the popular Les Femmeuses Art Exhibition and Sale for two days April 29 and 30, 2006.

Over the years, the art exhibition and sale Les Femmeuses (translated as famous women) has become one of the most important visual arts events of the Greater Montreal area. The main artistic event organized by Pratt & Whitney Canada, to raise funds for women and children who are victims of family violence. Seven shelters located on the South Shore of Montreal receive 50% of the proceeds. Each year, more than 5,000 people visit the exhibition.

When: Saturday, April 29 and Sunday, April 30, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Pratt & Whitney Canada, 1000 Marie-Victorin Blvd., Longueuil
Admission is free.

ArtsSutton Juried Member's Exhibition

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:38:18 -0700

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

I’m proud to announce my participation at ArtsSutton’s Juried Member’s Show on now until May21, 2006.

If you don’t get a chance to see the pieces in person, here’s a sneak preview of them:

www.flickr.com/photos/marybogdan/35874694/in/set-793230
www.flickr.com/photos/marybogdan/35874692/in/set-793230

3. whistler / ein

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:43:21 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

3. whistler / ein (menagerie series), 2005, 20"w x 14"h, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper

8. vatican council / sunshine follows rain

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:38:30 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

8. vatican council / sunshine follows rain (menagerie series), 2005, 20"w x 14"h, mixed media on hand made Himalayan paper

Vernissage7

nobody@flickr.com (Mary Bogdan) — Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:00:21 -0800

Mary Bogdan posted a photo:

Vernissage night... the opening at Sandra Goldie's Gallery, Montreal, November 2005.

This is a selection of the many photos taken by my husband photographer Sol Lang. It was a great busy night, and a phenomenal turn out considering it was a snowy, stormy Thursday night out in Montreal.

I was particularly touched by the flickrits that came that night, and what a treat to finally meet them... thanks guys.

>In this photo: Me with my younger son, Jonathan.