Inspired by her rural New England environment, ceramic sculptor Megan Bogonovich crafts whimsical tabletop pieces that examine the clash between nature and human influence. Constructing otherworldly botanical forms, the Vermont-based artist blurs the lines between natural growth and man’s impact on the environment. Incorporating elements of flowers, fungi, coral, and suggestive anatomical shapes, her pieces are created through a careful process of making small, hand-built organic forms, which she then casts in plaster molds to produce a variety of shapes she can spontaneously assemble and layer.
The “Fertile Ground” exhibition, which is her first show with the gallery, features 13 beautifully crafted, ceramic plants displayed on shelves surrounding a larger cluster of ceramic flora on a pedestal in the center of the room. Creating a surreal, hybrid form of nature, her colorful, plant-like sculptures have a Dadaist, Rube Goldberg appearance, reflecting their cobbled-together, stream-of-consciousness process, where finely crafted, repeated forms are used to produce entirely unique artworks.
