Casey Vogt

Meaning & Nothingness #8

2018

By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me to push the boundaries of what a past/present...

By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice allows me to push the boundaries of what a past/present...

This is a painting and collage on a circular panel. "By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice a...

This is a painting and collage on a circular panel. "By placing figures into fantastical landscapes, I allow the viewer a glimpse into what might be reality, or not. This practice a...

Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to present Aaron Collier: Of Rocks and Ruins. The “Everything You Need to Know” website that intends to prepare visitors for the breezy summit and sce...

Oil, graphite, ink on linen

This profound series serves as a powerful artistic examination of the tension and harmony between structure and freedom. The artist constructs each piece by employing two distinctly...

A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene. In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities. Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien...