About
Stacy Bogdonoff is a mixed media artist creating fine art that explores themes of ‘Home, Safety, and Shelter’; and wearable art that’s about sustainability and value.
Bogdonoff works with textiles, vintage fabric, paper, paint, dyes, and found objects.
Her studio is filled with pieces of rust bristles from rotary street sweepers, skeins of silk and linen, oil stained paper, and vintage reel-to-reel recording tape. Her tools are looms, foot long upholstery needles, pliers, portable coatracks, and drugstore combs.
Gold chain and sterling silver are as valuable as raw flax, paper clips, lumpy clay marbles, and a lacy dried leaf.
Media and process exploration drive her work, always circling back to how ‘Home, Safety, and Shelter’ morph and change as we age and move through life.
One piece leads to ten new ideas.
Bio
Stacy Bogdonoff earned a BFA in painting and photography from Syracuse University and moved to NYC to become a …..waitress. She went from waitressing to the kitchen, became a professional chef, founded a business, and built a career as a food entrepreneur. Throughout all those years of running a business and raising a family she always made art and maintained a studio practice.
Bogdonoff is now a full-time mixed media artist creating two-and-three-dimensional art, often using textiles and fiber, usually using unconventional processes and tools.
All her art explores the theme of ‘Home, Safety, and Shelter‘ and how those change as we age and move through life.
She maintains two studios: a small one on her NYC apartment dining room table and another larger, messier one in Kent, CT.
Bogdonoff shows and sells her art in juried and invitational shows in NYC, the Hudson Valley, and New England. She also works on commissions, curates, and helps with show installations.
Artist Statement
It is a privilege and a gift to be an artist.
Many people spend their lives looking for what they’d love to do. Some of my friends, when facing a transition, say, “I don’t know what I’ll do or what I love. I’m just not sure. Maybe I’ll take up golf or audit a class.”
I’ve never wondered what I’ll do or what I love. I’ve always been an artist and I live to make art. It has always been present in my life and, with the exception of my family and some deep personal relationships, the most constant and rewarding thing I do.
It keeps me company. I walk and do chores thinking about art.
It’s an ongoing conversation in my head. (Sometimes noisy.)
It forces me to look, think, make connections, and laugh.
It makes my mind race and my heart skip a beat.
It orders my days and allows me to create lists.
It is widely embracing and very inclusive. My practice welcomes thoughts, emotions, stories, TV, NPR, and podcasts.
It’s mine alone and I don’t have to share it with anyone.
My inspiration comes from three directions. I am deeply drawn to a wide variety of unconventional media, and I love to explore tools and new ways to use them. I am also equally driven to explore my inner world and understand my feelings.
Rust, found objects, tattered fiber, discarded wire, laser cutting, digital printing, and decaying leaves interest me and become the motivation for a series.
Trying to understand aging and this next stage of my life, and reconciling the push/pull of urban and rural life are questions I bring to every piece I make.
I am always driven to make a mark and leave a mark.
We are here on this earth for a very short time. I am grateful I can spend it doing what I love.