At JLG Projects, at Jane Lombard Gallery, Megan Bogonovich’s sculptures appear as if they have been evolving quietly on their own. They coil, swell, and stretch toward one another, forming a kind of ongoing conversation. Nothing about them seems tentative. Each piece occupies its space with an easy, unforced assurance. The forms might suggest blossoms, plumbing hardware, deep-sea creatures, or retro household contraptions, but none of the associations ever fully land. Their identities remain fluid, shifting, delightfully unpinpointable. That refusal to settle is part of their charm.
I first encountered the Vermont-based artist’s work in 2023 at SPRING/BREAK, where she filled an entire room with these peculiar botanical hybrids. I remember laughing, genuinely, at their mixture of silliness and sincerity. They felt like a direct counterpoint to the polished restraint that so often defines contemporary ceramics. The runs of glaze, the swollen seams, the slight structural wobbles, marks another maker might buff out, were instead embraced. Those irregularities made the work feel awake. They breathed.
