Reginabogat.com Website Review

REGINA BOGAT A contemporary artist from New York who grew up in the Abstract Expressionist era and remains active today. children, Anna and Peter. She lives and paints in New Jersey. THIS WEBSITE Here you may learn more about Regina Bogat's life, read articles, watch videos, and see current and historical exhibition lists. “Star light, star bright”, “Twinkle twinkle little star”, “The Stars and St*ipes Forever”, seems like wherever you look or listen we’re surrounded with a galaxy of star images, from childhood songs, to poetry, our national flag, even movie ratings. What’s the universal appeal of these celestial objects and, perhaps more pertinently can a contemporary artist squeeze something new out of It’s always a treat to visit the studio of a serious painter, to see the place where the “di*ty work” gets done. If it’s not an imposition, I enjoy sniffing around, trying to recreate the art making, like one of those hard-boiled forensic detectives on TV. It’s an added bonus if the artist is an articulate practitioner and an historical presence that places the work in a context vital to recent developments. On an early spring day, I dropped in specifically to view Regina Bogat’s recent series of star paintings. Having included a couple of her seven-pointed star pieces in a show I curated a couple of years ago, I was curious to see the latest trajectory the motif had taken with the evolution of ten-pointed stars. I wasn’t disappointed. Ignoring chronology, Bogat is a young painter, although she’s been at it for longer than most of today’s hotshots have been alive. The joy, surprise, and energy she brings to the studio work is typical of a twenty-some-thing’s. In her top floor studio, which would probably make a fine astronomical observatory, we chatted about some of the origins of the star imagery, its mystical implications, and use in ceremonies and magic. We laughed about the various mathematical and geometric formulas recommended by sophisticated “experts” for