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2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Joan Pogalies
Madison Ohio 44057 United States Home Phone: 6142180888 Website: http://jpgraphicsinc.com
Bio
After years of pursuing art from glass to pastels to oils to mosaic murals, I’ve landed home photographing views from my backyard: the Greatest Lake Erie, clouds, sunsets, cloudscapes, sand and pebbles. I combine these photos, rearrange them, turn them upside down, flip-flop them and have them printed on large metal panels that bounce light back to viewers creating an ethereal experience. From afar, they’re abstract patterns of light and color, totems of nature. From close up, details of rippling water, setting suns, colored stones, faces and animal forms in the clouds are discovered. The natural beauty and wonder presents itself to me daily but I have to act fast; the colors of the sky and the water and the formations of the clouds and beach can change drastically within seconds. I now add the dates and times, sometimes down to the second, to my photo montages to show how quickly the transformations occurred. There, then gone! But I’m still here, day after day, clicking photos and mooshing them together digitally, then documenting these gorgeous, fleeting scenes on large metal panels. I’ve discovered my creative passion right outside my door: little Great Lake Erie…all from my little Madison, Ohio, back yard…where my art records astounding wonders of science and nature from blazing clouds, to frilly ice “lily pads,” to waves spraying up red from the sunset, to rare cloud formations, and everything in between.
Artist Statement
After years of pursuing art from glass to pastels to oils to mosaic murals, I’ve landed home photographing views from my backyard: the Greatest Lake Erie, clouds, sunsets, cloudscapes, sand and pebbles. I combine these photos, rearrange them, turn them upside down, flip-flop them and have them printed on large metal panels that bounce light back to viewers creating an ethereal experience. From afar, they’re abstract patterns of light and color, totems of nature. From close up, details of rippling water, setting suns, colored stones, faces and animal forms in the clouds are discovered. The natural beauty and wonder presents itself to me daily but I have to act fast; the colors of the sky and the water and the formations of the clouds and beach can change drastically within seconds. I now add the dates and times, sometimes down to the second, to my photo montages to show how quickly the transformations occurred. There, then gone! But I’m still here, day after day, clicking photos and mooshing them together digitally, then documenting these gorgeous, fleeting scenes on large metal panels. I’ve discovered my creative passion right outside my door: little Great Lake Erie…all from my little Madison, Ohio, back yard…where my art records astounding wonders of science and nature from blazing clouds, to frilly ice “lily pads,” to waves spraying up red from the sunset, to rare cloud formations, and everything in between.
