Anna Bogatin Ott

Anna Bogatin explores in her art ideas of beauty, order, and harmony that exist within nature and the eternal human longing for freedom and happiness. Buddhism and the aesthetic philosophy Wabi Sabi that focuses on the transient and intimate beauty found in nature and esteems the purity of natural imperfection have been an important influence.
“In one word my art is about happiness.
In my work, I follow in the footsteps of Post-War American painters such as Agnes Martin, Barnet Newman, Ad Reinhardt and Mark Tobey. Like them, I am concerned with the spiritual and the unconscious in art and the expression of idealistic and emotional content through abstraction.
Working with the most basic universal elements – dots and lines, I developed a personal vocabulary to create an experience that is universally familiar, pleasurable, and empowering.
Each line is an experience. Each dot is an event.” – AB
Anna Bogatin was born in the Ukraine in 1970, and immigrated to the US in 1992.
She received her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (2002), and her MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute (2006).
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY; Krasnoyarsk Museum of Cultural History, Russia; The Hicks Art Center, PA; City of Brea Art Gallery, CA; and Diego Riviera Gallery, San Francisco; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angels, CA; Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX; Jamie Brooks Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA;

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