BFA, Studio Art
Dual Discipline Focus
Primary Focus: Painting & Drawing
Secondary Focus: Printmaking & Book Arts
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Artist Statement
Material Remains
Ellie Hogan is an artist working in painting and printmaking whose work depicts the interiors of abandoned and decaying homes. Hogan has a passion for experimentation in material application, merging this with an interest in diagrammatic “drawing”. Hogan’s process is driven by using alternative application practices, abstraction, and a great deal of play to create a representational image. Throughout the body of work, pattern and texture are created through stamping, stenciling, and image transfers of flat patterns that eventually come to life through loose layers of light and shadow. These techniques allow Hogan to play with depictions of reality and form puzzles of discerning the flat from the dimensional. The result is a pictorial space that is actively undergoing construction through the painting and drawing process, while simultaneously expressing decay. This material expression and visual unbecoming of a recognizable home space intersect with the narrative concepts of dilapidation and decay, creating visual and material metaphors for the description of loss and deterioration.
The subject is fixed at the crossroads between human sentimentality and memory, mortality and decay, and a passion for history and current events. The work is created with contexts of economic, social, and natural disaster in mind; specifically pertaining to impacts of housing crisis, economic inequality, consumption and displacement. Hogan’s work navigates these ideas through the portrait of a person’s home and personal objects, with their presence removed entirely, raising questions such as, “What causes a person to leave everything behind?” or “What happens to our belongings when they are no longer ours?”
