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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Bridgette Bogle
DAYTON OH 45410 United States Home Phone: 6142568050 Website: Bridgette Bogle
Bio
Bridgette Bogle was born in Roswell, New Mexico in 1977; thirty years after the space aliens crashed there and caused such a ruckus. Bogle received her MFA from the Ohio State University in painting and drawing in 2003.
She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally, including, Painting at Night, Collar Works, Tory, New York in 2022 and Sentimental and not, Rueff Gallery, Purdue University, West Layfayette, Indiana in 2019. In 2009, her Candy Store Grid at Dayton Visual Art Center consisted of a room full of 135 small paintings inspired by consumer culture. A selection from Candy Store Grid is installed at the Dayton Children’s Medical Center.
Bogle was recently awarded an Artist Opportunity Grant from the Montgomery County Arts and Cultural District. She currently serves as a Professor in the Art Department of Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.
Artist Statement
Like family life, these sculptures and paintings contain a deliberate sense of balance. The paintings utilize pillow-like elements that add low-relief dimensionality, blurring the lines between traditional two-dimensionality and sculptural form. The sculptures incorporate language from painting, including areas of flatness and painted components.
My color choices in these works are determined by the backstory of my recycled and repurposed materials. I pad, sew, and secure household fabrics and found objects – imbued with varied histories from their use in human ritual. Some are elastic and soft, like the cropped leg of a pair of my son’s red sweatpants. Others are fragile and brittle like the found polyester flower petals from Woodland Cemetery. In these pieces, my materials stand in as metaphors for motherhood and the cycle of human life.