Press release

The Buchmann Galerie is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of the US-American artist Greg Bogin at the gallery.

In his consistently painterly practice, Greg Bogin explores the central historical developments in painting since the emergence of abstraction. He juxtaposes these historical developments with the specific visuality of contemporary culture. His work oscillates between conceptual rigour and a playful, sensual curiosity about the visible.

Essential to Bogin’s work is his rejection of common rectangular forms as pictorial grounds and his confident handling of colour. His canvases are organically rounded, cut out or geometrically shaped, overcoming the two-dimensionality of traditional paintings and acquiring a sculptural quality. In combination with brilliant, sometimes fluorescent colours, his works refer to the visual rhetoric of a world of vernacular culture – striking, memorable and immediately effective – and develop a visual vocabulary that is characteristically borrowed from the everyday world and yet possesses an undisputed sublimity.

Greg Bogin, born in 1965 in New York, where he lives and works, is a seminal figure in the field of contemporary American abstraction. His studies at The Cooper Union School of Art established the foundation for his pioneering investigation into the geometric and chromatic possibilities of painting. He has been exhibiting internationally since the early 1990s, including at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; the Museum für konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt; the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut; Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich; Neues Museum Nuremberg; and the Daimler Art Collection in Stuttgart, to name but a few. His oeuvre is represented in major public and private collections.