Artist Statement

Every night over the past year, I created over 50 abstract watercolors in a meditative dream state, allowing for a process of discovery and surprise. I began each piece without any particular conscious theme but with the intention of capturing a moment, similar to when something in nature stops thought and where grief, loss, conflict, and other daily struggles suddenly disappear. In an Instant, time stops, and there’s an inexplicable recognition. Time stops.

Artist Biography

Steven Bogart has exhibited his work at the deCordova Museum (Big Bang, Abstract Painting in the Twentieth Century), The Fitchburg Museum, The Katonah Museum, Ueno Metropolitan Museum of Art (Tokyo), Locco Ritoro Gallery, Boston, The Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Buffalo, NY, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, and Chicago. He is a contributor to Arts in Giving, which raises money for pediatric cancer research through the sale and loans of artworks, and he is an artist with the deCordova Museum Corporate Loan program.

He is also a playwright, screenwriter, and stage director, and has directed for the American Repertory Theater (Cabaret), (The Boston Abolitionist Project), Wheelock Family Theatre (Pinocchio), Company One (Shockheaded Peter, Dry Land, Peerless, Greater Good, and Walking with Amal), Boston Playwrights’ Theater (Ginger Lazarus’s, Burning, Dan Hunter’s, Legally Dead), Liars and Believers’ (Lunar Labyrinth and Interference), and Brandeis University (Cabaret, and Orlando).

Bogart’s plays have received performances in Boston, NYC, and Chicago. He is a 2015 Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow in playwriting and was a 2009 Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant recipient in playwriting. His play, Pigcat, received the Holland New Voice Award at the 2010 Great Plains Theater Conference.