Mid-century, Tara Bogart

Mid-century, Tara Bogart
April 26 – June 8, 2019

 

 

The Alice Wilds is pleased to announce the opening of Mid-century, a solo exhibition of recent photographic works by Tara Bogart on Friday, April 26th, 2019.

Bogart, a Milwaukee native and long prominent figure in the region’s photographic community presents her first solo exhibition since 2015. After her relocation to Paris, France that same year and the publication of her internationally celebrated monograph A Modern Hair Study by Kehrer Verlag in 2017, Bogart’s new work takes an introspective turn in contemplation of another transitional milestone, achieving the age of fifty.

Finding herself at the confluence of intensely personal, physical and cultural transitions Bogart utilizes her practice to wrest meaning from the challenges, doubts, insecurities, triumphs, and joys of her recent circumstances.

Standing at the often-unnerving intersection where the fateful and the willful meet, Bogart constructs, out of the humblest of subjects and photographic processes both archaic and advanced, embodiments of the beauty and wisdom revealed in quiet moments of contemplation.

Tara Bogart has exhibited work at Hous Projects, New York, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, Aperture, New York, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, Center of the Arts at Virginia Tech, VA, The Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, The Newspace Photo Center, Portland, OR, INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts), Milwaukee, The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, H2O Gallery, Art and Soul Gallery, and The Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee and the Wriston Gallery at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI.

Bogart has been reviewed by the New Yorker, CNN Worldwide Photos, Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, I-D Vice, Zoom Magazine, The British Journal of Photography and The New Republic and American Photography 29. She is in the private and public collections of The National Library of France, Paris and the J Crew Corporate Collection to name a few. She has studied at theUniversity of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Photography and Fine Art studies department and The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. During an internship at The Maine Photographic Workshops, Bogart assisted Arnold Newman, Sally Gall, Eugene Richards, Mary Ellen Mark & Bruce Goodman. Tara Bogart is currently the Adjunct Faculty and Photography Lab Technician at the Paris College of Art.

Mid-century continues through Saturday, June 8, 2019.