Andy Vogt
about the artist
Biography
Andy Vogt grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC and attended Carnegie Mellon University where he earned a BFA in Intermedia, a program focused on time based media, performance and installation. He lived in Pittsburgh PA until 2000.
His current work using reclaimed wood from demolished buildings, started around 2004, a few years after moving to San Francisco. Since then, his work has been exhibited nationally and locally including solo shows at Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Eli Ridgway Gallery, Hap Gallery (Portland, OR) , Southern Exposure, The Museum of Craft and Design and Ampersand International Arts. Group exhibitions include Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, Swarm Gallery and Adobe Books Backroom Gallery. In 2010 he was an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts.
Andy lives and works in San Francisco, California.
Resume
Born, Washington D.C. 1970
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University 1992
Solo Exhibitions:
2017 "negatives", Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2014 “fossilized”, Hap Gallery, Portland, OR
2013 “submerged on the surface”, Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 “boundary lines”, Eli Ridgway Gallery (project space), San Francisco, CA
2011 “architecturalized”, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2011 “recent works”, Electric Works Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 "gray area", Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2009 "wood drawings and/or sculpture", Four Barrel, San Francisco, CA
2008 "aftermath", Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 "dimensioning nowhere", LH Horton Jr. Gallery, Stockton, CA
2006 "redensified", Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA
Public Collections:
2019 San Francisco Civic Collection, San Francisco International Airport
2018 Texas A+M University, Zachry Engineering Campus, College Station, TX
Residencies:
2011 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Group Exhibitions:
2018 "thinking structure", Buck Institute, Novato, CA
2018 "future cities" AIA, SF
2017 "NFS" Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 “SF Art Show” Flax Art and Design, San Francisco, CA
2016 Satellite of Love inaugural group show, SF CA
2016 “Pattern Predictability Repetition” 2214 Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2016 “MFA Never”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2015 C2C Projects @ Artist Run, Satellite Art Fair, Maimi, FL
2015 “Carry On” (Mexico City, Mexico), Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA
2015 “Shoebox Orchestra”, Ampersand International Arts, San Francisco, CA
2014 “C2C Project Space” (w/Jason Karolak), San Francisco, CA
2014 “Ouroboros”, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2013 “Thinking Like the Universe”, K Imperial Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 “Streetopia”, Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
2012 “Architectural Deinforcement”, Cerritos College Gallery, Norwalk, CA
2012 3020 Laguna In Exitum, site specific installation in a to-be-demolished residence, SF, CA
2011 “Fragments/Specimens”, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2011 “Shadowshop”, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2011 “Spaces, Series #1”, True Silver Union Galllery, San Francisco, CA
2011 “Breaking Ranks”, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2011 “Stop and Go Animation Festival”, touring internationally
2010 “Out of Order”, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2010 ““So Many Products, So Little Time”, SOAP Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 ““Paper! Awesome!”, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2010 ““Andy Vogt + Ari Salomon”, SFMOMA Artists Gallery windows, San Francisco, CA
2009 "Sustained Decay”, Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, San Francisco. CA
2009 "Mixed Metaphors”, Michael Rosenthal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 "Regime Change”, Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2008 Aqua, Miami FL with Swarm Gallery of Oakland, CA
2008 "Kick Out the Jams”, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 "Unfinished", Grand Theater Center for the Arts, Tracy, CA
2008 "Close Calls”, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2007 "Artifice of Form", Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007 "Stream" Upspace, Los Angeles, CA
2007 "Unfinished" Mission17, San Francisco, CA
2006 "Sketch", UC Davis Memorial Union Art Gallery, Davis, CA
2006 "Paper Awesome!”, Pigman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Articles in Print:
Zahid Sardar, "Shadow Play" Spaces Magazine 2017
Kenneth Baker, "2 San Francisco galleries with new tomorrows", SF Chronicle 2014
Kenneth Baker, "Floor-to-ceiling Vogt", SF Chronicle June 15, 2013
Sura Wood + Katherine Krause, “Ouroboros”, 7 x 7 magazine 2013
Kenneth Baker, "Churchill and Vogt in the back room", SF Chronicle 2009
Hiya Swanhuyser,"Tear It Up, Tear It Down", San Francisco Weekly, 2009
Dewitt Cheng, “Unfinished at Mission17”, Artweek, 2007
Diane Chin Lui, “Birth of Ideas”, The Davis Enterprise, 2006
Essays:
Kelsey Nicholson, ‘Gray Area’ at Southern Exposure, 2010
Dewitt Cheng, ‘aftermath' at ampersand international arts, 2008
Online Coverage:
SFAQ, “Pattern Predictability Repetition” at 2214 Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Brian Karl, 2016
In The Make, ‘Andy Vogt’, Klea McKenna and Nikki Grattan, 2013
San Francisco Arts Quarterly, ’Andy Vogt at Eli Ridgway’, Chris Rusak, May 30, 2013
Art21, ‘Andy Vogt’s Everyday Science ‘, DeWitt Cheng, November 2, 2011
SF Weekly, ‘Sculptor Uses "House Guts" to Frame MOCD’S new (Temporary) Home’, Caroline Chen, July 2011
Booooom!, 2010
My Love For You is a Stampede of Horses, 2010
Closet of Horrors – Spain 2010
Holy Ghost – England 2010
Taide & Design "Sustained Decay - Andy Vogt & Joshua Churchill" by Gareth Spor, 2009
SFMOMA | Open Space by Eric Heiman "A Requiem, A Dream “(Part One)” & “(Part Two)", 2009
Online Publications:
Ruby Mag: Issue #45 online Art Magazine – Argentina
Sixth Finch – New England
Printed Publications:
Hot and Cold - Issue #2 May, 2008
“Otherworldliness” published 2011 – Gestalten Verlag, Germany