Office Gallery
January 12 - February 24, 2024
LAURIE HOGIN
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Laurie Hogin is a contemporary artist renowned for her thought-provoking and vividly rendered paintings, which explore themes of human behavior, culture, and the environment. Hogin's work employs techniques, vocabularies, and visual codes from the history of painting and visual culture: 17th-century Dutch "embarrassment of riches" still lifes, naturalistic, 18th-century English landscapes, Baroque portraiture, French Romantic historical tableaux, natural displays, and more. She creates mordant, diorama-like scenes that critique, parody and sometimes propose alternatives to contemporary cultural and social issues or celebrate aspects of human experience. She upends these genres with lushly painted, thoroughly researched canvases whose elaborate visual conceits feature surreal, mutated animal protagonists chosen for their allegorical associations and overgrown, toxic landscapes.
Hogin received her BFA from Cornell University and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works have been exhibited widely in solo and group shows in galleries and museums across the United States and internationally including the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Museum, Portland Art Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois State Museum, Mint Museum, and the Kohler Arts Center as well as career surveys at the Evanston Art Center (1997) and Cedar Rapids Museum of Art (2007). She is also an educator, sharing her expertise as a professor in art and painting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
