Artist

BIO

Bogyi Banovich was born and nurtured in New York City. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 2012 with a major in Studio Art and remained at Dartmouth for the year following graduation as an intern for the department and a teaching assistant. He maintained a studio practice and had three exhibitions of his work while still at Dartmouth. The post-graduate year allowed him to continue to develop his steel working skills as well as continue to experiment with and make works using commercial plastic wrap. Returning to the city in September 2013, Bogyi Banovich will continue to make new works and experiment with the potential of plastic wrapping on the street.

Statement

My work is meant to draw the viewer into a space between the man made and the natural. It is heavily influenced by material and revolves around how I can take my materials to a new place and into a new context through the objects I create. I work to reveal the organic properties of each material, to combine natural motifs and structures with the unknown and phenomenal. Both materials have a sense of permanence, an everlasting quality. Steel, a historically robust and elemental material and plastic, an indestructible, contemporary material with an indeterminate existence. I have been academically immersed in the life and earth sciences for most of my life, which brings with it certain images and baggage. After studying the history of the earth and evolution I find myself looking toward the future on a non-human scale, wondering how our actions and ideas of the present will influence the creatures and structures of the distant future. My work explores how flora and fauna can combine and how the natural world will come to meet our vision of the future.