RAPID FIRE QUESTIONS WITH ~ GREG BOGIN BY PABLO G. VILLAZAN

In this weeks session of ‘Rapid Fire Questions” our good friend Pablo G. Villazan gives us a great Q&A with a League favorite and supporter our good friend, artist Greg Bogin. Greg’s work of different shapes fits like a missing puzzle piece into any wall. His perfect choice of colors adds the finishing touch that will leave you smiling at any moment of your day. No collection is a collection without a Bogin!

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Who is Greg Bogin?

Greg Bogin is a human being and artist living and working in NYC with his wife and pug Monkey.

Did you always want to be an artist?

Did I always want to be an artist...always is a long time...haha. I was a very creative child always drawing, but it was really not until my first year in high school that it occurred to me that being an artist was the path I wanted to follow.

Where does your inspiration come from?

Everywhere. I am continually inspired by the world around me.

Which artists have the greatest influence on your work?

That’s hard to say there are so many artists that have had an influence on me at different times depending on what stage of development I was in at the time.

What is your process to create your work?

My process usually involves lots of drawing, thinking and looking before making a painting. In some ways the process is the work. I am continually making small sketches, that then become more realized colored shaped drawings, some of those go one the become paintings.

Is there something you can’t live without in your studio?

Lighting and coffee.

What is the meaning behind your artwork?

I try not to pin down a specific meaning to my work past the human need to communicate, but the thrust of my work in recent years has been to lift people’s spirits, provide some joy, and a pause from the world.

Imagine that your paintings could talk, what would they say about you?

Haha...hopefully they can keep a secret.

What advice would you give to your younger self?

To be confident along the path.

Do you find the social channel’s influence Positive or Negative?

If you mean the influence on art then, I think it can be both positive and negative. Social channels...or media I think have provided a way for artists to reach more people and for people to see and experience more art. The negative perhaps is that seeing art on social media in some cases replaces the physical experience of seeing art in person.

Describe in 3 words how social channels affect you as an artist.

“DM for info”

What is your dream project?

Dream projects can vary widely, haha, but a dream project I have had in mind for a long time has recently come to fruition A set of 3 die cut hand pulled screen prints in a portfolio that was done in collaboration with my good friends at Louis Buhl in Detroit.