Press Release

“Between appointments. 
You hold your device in your hand and scroll down an endless mélange of images and information:

This looks upsetting. 
That makes you jealous. 
Those make you feel unworthy.
They…

What are you really looking for on the glowing screen? Could it soothe you? Will you find Harmony? Pleasure? Respite? Suddenly you pause as something beautiful floats into view. You don’t stop long, but if you could live in that sudden flash of beauty, if you could merge it with the surfaces that hold your body beyond the screen….

Mrs. is very pleased to share Flowers, an exhibition of three new sculptures by Chris Bogia in the windows of Hermés on Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles. The works represent the continuation of a series of free-standing sculptures by Bogia that reference the shape of everyday communication devices rendered at the scale of furniture. Nested in three book-case sized birch frames are isometrically extruded abstractions of flowers articulated in candy-colored geometric shapes. The shapes are clad in the surfaces of interior design: grass cloth wallpaper, glossy lacquer, and perforated aluminum. The seduction of domestic surfaces, fresh tech, and coveted objets d’art converge in the work, replacing the discord our devices frequently subject us with universal symbols of beauty. Bogia’s flowers, rendered in soft tonal colors coupled with the verdant shades of stems and leaves rely on balance and tension to maintain their structural integrity. Like their real-world counterparts, these abstract sculptural flowers are fragile, ready to topple into themselves at any moment. Perfect balance and harmony are as impermanent as they are valuable. If we must dwell in the worlds we hold in our palms, Bogia’s precise sculptures, overflowing with visual pleasure and joy, remind us to prioritize appreciating beauty wherever and whenever we can find it.”

-Chris Bogia

Chris Bogia received his BFA at New York University and MFA from Yale University. Bogia was a recent recipient of the Jackson Pollock - Lee Krasner Foundation Grant; a Queens Council for the Arts, New Works Grant; as well as a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant, and the Tiffany Foundation grant. He was also an artist in residence at the Queens Museum Studio Program from 2017-2018. Recent exhibitions include a public project with Art in Buildings in NYC, a solo exhibition at Mrs. Gallery, group exhibitions at Hesse Flatow, NYC, Primary, Miami, RUSCHMAN, Chicago, The Public Art Fund, NYC, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, Bric, Brooklyn, Mrs. Gallery, The New Museum, and a presentation at NADA with Mrs. Gallery in 2020. Bogia is the co-founder of Fire Island Artist Residency (FIAR), the first LGBTQ artist residency in the world, and was FIAR’s acting director from 2011- 2020. He is currently an instructor of sculpture at New York University.

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Press

Artist Chris Bogia’s Abstracted Floral Sculptures Are in Full Bloom at Hermès’s Beverly Hills Location
William Van Meter, Artnet