In these new paintings, sometimes influenced by the seductive energy of pinball and Japanese Pachinko—the bright lights, the rhythmic sounds, and the unpredictable movements, I playfully explore the collision between organic geometry and imagined perspectives. These forms are satirical in nature, on humans' need for distraction and entertainment. I invite the viewer into spaces where meaning flutters like a shimmering, ricocheting pinball, and works as a foil to the rigid architectures of logic. Imagery arrives unannounced. Humor appears sideways in the form of surreal, abstracted ambiguous machines. I hope they catch you in motion—mid-thought, mid-fall—between the predictable and the poetic.

Artist Bio

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 loan of artworks. He is also an artist with the Decordova Museum Corporate Loan program and a member of the Kingston Gallery in Boston. Besides his visual art, Bogart is a stage director, screenwriter, and playwright. He has directed for several Boston-area theatre companies, including the American Repertory Theater, Company One, and Boston Playwrights' Theater. In 2024, his stage play, Made in Heaven, was the grand prize winner of Risk Theatre's Modern Tragedy Playwriting competition. He is also a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council's playwriting fellowship award.