Exciting and modern, three dimensional organic works now available!

I’ve been given the opportunity to showcase sculptures handmade from natural materials crafted by a long-standing, metro Detroit sculptor. Twisted steel, bold paints and bent wood become luscious and engaging forms ready to adorn a concrete floor, resin shelves, or colorful walls.

There are over 50 sculptures in various sizes, shapes, and materials for sale. Price points range from $250 – $5,000, with the average price at $1500.

Contact me for more details or to schedule studio tour.

Andrea Bogart
Founder / Lead Art Advisor
Industry IIDA

A Tree is a Wild Thing series

We try our best to civilize it by chopping it down and sectioning it into the geometric shapes we call lumber, but a rich organic beauty persists within even the lowliest pine board. In this series, the artist takes that “lumber” and coaxes it into shapes and objects that are more evocative of its original personality and home.

Below are a few works from the 24-piece series. For the full catalog or to visit the work in person, contact Andrea Bogart.

Enso and Beyond series

Enso is an ink circle drawn briefly and in one stroke. Drawing enso is a disciplined creative practice of Japanese ink painting, sumi-e. For many, drawing enso is a spiritual practice for self-realization. Enso exemplifies the various dimensions of the Japanese wabi-sabi perspective and aesthetic: fukinsei (asymmetry, irregularity), kanso (simplicity), koko (basic; weathered), shizen (without pretense; natural), yugen (subtly profound grace), datsuzoku (freedom), and seijaku (tranquility).

Below are a few works from the 9-piece series. For the full catalog or to visit the work in person, contact Andrea Bogart.

(left) Choker, 2023
Laminated wood, aluminum, paint
30 x 30 x 6 inches

Letterform series

Our experience when reading words in a language that we speak is focused on the meaning of those words. In fact, the very purpose of any written language is to carry ideas from the writer to the reader. Written words are typically percieved as purely functional tools of communication, the meaning of a word is its only function, and the only way those markings can have meaning.

In his series Letterforms, the artist has changed perspective of the written word. He examines the graphical nature of typography; its loops, serifs, descenders and punctuations, and suggests that there is another level of meaning conveyed.
For source material, he uses his native English, as well as other languages that use non-western alphabets and character sets, among them are Thai, Armenian, Korean, Hebrew, Chinese and more.

Below are a few works from the 8-piece series. For the full catalog or to visit the work in person, contact Andrea Bogart.

(left) Korean Patois 1, 2023
Laminated wood, paint, dye
20 x 32 x 4 inches

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imotu series

imotu is an imaginary language invented by the artist consisting of a set of characters, with the goal of communicating nuanced human emotions. The characters don’t have phonetic attributes and cannot be spoken, only written.

People tend to be reserved and private with their emotions, but maybe if they had a better method, it would give people a vehicle to express themselves more freely, more accurately, or more completely.

As an art project, these characters, made from plywood and paint, could have dimension and color that might relate to their meaning, but are also presented as curious and beautiful objects, without regard to meaning.

Below are a few works from the 6-piece series. For the full catalog or to visit the work in person, contact Andrea Bogart.

(left) imotu 5S, 2021
Wood, paint
12 x 12 x 1 inches

The Covers series

Music has always spoken to me on a primal, visceral level. All my life, music has illicited an emotional response in me that is often unexplainable. I am sometimes so excited by music that my joy bubbles over and I just want to shout, or I can be moved to tears by its beauty.

I am not talking about poignant lyrics here, although they can have an effect on me too, albeit less intense. I mean the sound of some music touches me more deeply than nearly anything else – and I don’t even know why.

Some years ago, I noticed that the music I was listening to while making art was having an effect on the finished product. I decided to take it a step further by purposely focusing a sculpture on a single piece of music.

I found it to be so easy, so natural a way for me to work, that it almost seemed as if the pieces were making themselves. I created a playlist and went to work. The resulting collection of artwork is my album of “covers”.

My approach was not to imitate the music in the literal sense of illustrating lyrics or musical themes, but to use the attributes of the music to drive my choices about the sculpture’s attributes.

Below are a few works from the 19-piece series. For the full catalog or to visit the work in person, contact Andrea Bogart.

(left) Millennium Drip, 2013
Steel
48 x 8 x 7 inches