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Statement:
All objects have a beginning and an end, at least when it comes
to our economic value system. Objects allude to reference points
in the built landscape, our own reality, and we reinforce this
structural vernacular on many levels from the cubes that we live
in to what we imagine a fence "means". Our burning need
to make order out of chaos subsides only briefly before our true
entropic nature overrides us and trashes it all.
Mining San Francisco's dumpsters I salvage wood strips of plaster
lath discarded during home renovation projects and re-assemble
them into geometric wall drawings and structures. I
see these works as re-crystallized skeletal incarnations of an
obsoleted system
that has been frozen in suspended animation. Their shapes have
a hazy connection to literal structures but subscribe to alternate
formal hierarchies.
The materials are what have driven this body of work. Their history,
both natural and as a building material, form the basis of their
re-use.
Bio:
Andy
Vogt completed a BFA in Intermedia at Carnegie Mellon University;
a program focused on time based media, performance and installation.
Vogt is a founding member of Operation Re-Information (O.R.I.),
a science+information / art performance collective that champions
"the repurposing of existing information and the resultant
product: reinformation." Throughout the 1990's O.R.I. toured
nationally, recorded several cds and developed its own performance
software. (www.reinformation.com)
Andy Vogt's current three-dimensional artwork explores again "repurposing";
through the reinterpretation of wooden structural remnants salvaged
from dumpsters around San Francisco. Andy Vogt's artwork has been
exhibited in San Francisco at Southern Exposure, ampersand international
arts, Pigman Gallery in "Paper! Awesome!", Mimi Barr
Gallery, The Lab, Blue Sky Studios, The Build, New Langton and
at the Michelle O'Connor Gallery, the UC Davis Memorial Union
Gallery in Davis, CA. In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Vogt has exhibited
at The Skinny Building and Pittsburgh Filmmakers. Andy Vogt presently
lives and works in San Francisco.
Exhibitions:
2006 (upcoming solo show) LH
Horton Gallery - Stockton, California
2006 (upcoming group show) SOAP
Gallery - San Francisco, California
2006 West Coast Windows, Samson
Projects - Boston, Massachusets
2006 Momentum, Southern
Exposure - San Francisco, California
2006 Sketch, UC Davis Memorial Union Gallery - Davis, California
2006 (solo show) redensified, ampersand international arts- San
Francisco, California
2005
Paper! Awesome! Pigman
Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Blue Studio Group Show, Michelle O'Connor Gallery - San Francisco,
California
2005 Gold Diggers, New Langton - San Francisco, California
2005 Mimi Barr Benefit, Mimi Barr Gallery - San Francisco, California
2004 Geektique Road Show, The Lab - San Francisco, California
2004 Mr. Rogers Tribute Show, Skinny Building - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2001 Gigantic Group Show of Artwork Created By Geniuses, Build
- San Francisco, California
1999 Urban/Nature Interface, Pittsburgh Filmmakers - Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Education
Carnegie-Mellon University, BFA 1992
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