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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Joan Pogalies
Madison Ohio 44057 United States Home Phone: 6142180888 Website: http://jpgraphicsinc.com
Bio
A long-held family cottage on the shores of Great Lake Erie is where Joan enjoyed her summers growing up and where she now resides full time. And although she’s had a lifelong history of pursueing art…oils, pastels, glass blowing, enameled/slumped glass, photo tile and mosaic murals…she found her true calling: rearranged eco-docu-photo art.
She rearranges her photographic images digitally, then crops, enlarges, stacks, flips them into montages documenting the common scenes/objects found in nature in uncommon formats printed with the dye sublimation technique that infuses pigments into the surface of large metal panels up to 4ftx5ft…so far. (You see the metallic ground shimmering through for an above, below and in between perspective.) She experimented with photography for decades before deciding to push through the single moments of her individual, solitary images to create full stories, mature visual narratives. Thus she found her heart’s passion and taught herself to reimagine these realities into almost-recognizable images with secrets to be discovered within.
Her metal art panels have been selected for juried group shows as well as solo exhibits at University Hospitals, Geauga, The West Woods Nature Center, Geauga Parks, and Kendal at Oberlin Community Art Gallery & Friends Gallery. She has been honored to receive awards from many of the juried shows she entered.
Awards
2025 1st Place, Landscapes & Seascapes, Stella’s Gallery Juried Photo Show
2025 2nd Place, Landscapes & Seascapes, Stella’s Gallery Juried Photo Show
2025 3rd Place, People, Stella’s Gallery Juried Photo Show
2025 Featured Cloud-a-Day Photo, Mon., July 7, International Cloud Appreciation Society
2024 1st Place Photography, Rabbit Run Community Arts Assoc. 33rd Annual Juried Show
2024 Featured Cloud-a-Day Photo, Sat. April 27, International Cloud Appreciation Society
2024 1st Place Photography, Rabbit Run Community Arts Assoc. 32nd Annual Juried Show
2023 2nd Place for Photography, Geauga County Arts Juried Show
2023 Best of Show Cleveland Photo. Society, Madison Public Library Show
2022 Honorable Mention, National Wildlife Federation 51st Annual International Photo Contest
2021 Honorable Mention Photography, Rabbit Run Comm. Arts Assoc. 29th Juried Show
Solo Exhibitions
2025-26 The West Woods Nature Center, Geauga Parks, Nov. 22, 2025-Feb. 28, 2026
2024 University Hospitals, Geauga, July 8-Sept. 30, 2024 2024-25
Kendal at Oberlin’s Community Art Gallery & Friends Gallery, Dec. 15, 2024-Feb. 6, 2025
Group Exhibitions
2025 1st Place, Landscapes & Seascapes, Stella’s Gallery Juried Photo Show
2025 2nd Place, Landscapes & Seascapes, Stella’s Gallery Juried Photo Show
2025 3rd Place, People, Stella’s Gallery Juried Photo Show
2025 Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, July 17-Sept. 20
2025 Rabbit Run Comm. Arts Assoc. 33rd Annual Juried Art Show. First Place Photography
2025 FAVA, Oberlin, OH. May 24-August 21
2025 80th May Show, Mansfield Art Center, OH. April 6-May 18
2025 Nude Nite, Coastal Creative, St. Petersburg, FL
2023 Beth K. Stocker Art Gallery, Lorain County Community College
2024 Rabbit Run Comm. Arts Assoc. 32nd Annual Juried Art Show. First Place Photography
2023 Best of Show by Cleveland Photographic Society, Madison Public Library Annual Photo
2023 Cleveland Photographic Society Show
2022 Rabbit Run Comm. Arts Assoc. 30th Annual Juried Art Show
2021 Rabbit Run Comm. Arts Assoc. 29th Juried Show, Honorable Mention Photo. Awards
Artist Statement
Allow me to introduce myself. I’m a story being told through my decades-long relationship with the nature of Ohio, Great Lake Erie, and beyond: Fierce, furious to serene, meditative. I’m always reaching beyond to what I don’t know. So after decades of experimenting with traditional photography, I yearned to learn what more those isolated, solitary moments could reveal. I started to push time: forward, backwards, above, below, through. Now my art reveals new wonders within old landscapes, vulnerability/resilience. This work puts “you” inside my moments to experience more moments.
Commonly photographed objects and scenes are enlarged (up to 4ft x 5ft and growing) then flipped, flopped, stacked into almost recognizable “things,” and printed on large metal panels. The heat and pressure required for dye sublimation printing on metal infuses colors permanently into the surface. Endurance! Longevity! No borders or frames! No boundaries!
Macro and micro perspectives: From afar you may see abstract waves, Rorschach patterns, mirror images, stacks of colors. Close up you may discover curious little objects, body parts, insects, that invite further exploration. What people discover in my art is such a delightful part of how I approach it and how I tease more from their imaginations. (They often see things that I haven’t seen!) There’s a childlike joy of discovery for adults as well as kiddos. And as I continue to push today, my art becomes more abstract.
A visual ode: In these ecologically fragile times, I want to show, through curious visuals, the waxing and waning natural beauty around us, and share those complex images with hope.
One of my never-exhibited personal pursuits: Almost daily for more than 4 years, I photo-documenting the Arcola Creek Estuary, one of the last remaining natural estuaries in Ohio and one of only two on Lake Erie. I took a series of 360-degree photos from the same spot year round, stitched them together digitally, stack the strips into chronological order with the dates, had them dye sublimation printed on 3ft x 4 ft metal panels. This extensive eco-docuart represents more than 4,000 single images on 7 panels (7 more are ready to be printed!) preserving intimate daily, seasonal and yearly changes of Ohio’s Arcola Estuary.
Portfolio
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