new blog location

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a work in progress

This is portion of a larger piece currently in progress.  The overall dimensions are approximately 6' x 4'.  To see more check out my new web site at www.brendabogart.com.  My next show is Thursday Sept 13th 6:00pm - 8:00pm and Friday Sept 14th 10:00am - 2:00pm.  Save the date and bring a friend!  

summer house

oil on canvas

48" x 48"

Please check out my new web site at www.brendabogart.com

Also mark your calendar for my next show September 13th and 14th.  

I will be showing with daughter Stephanie Stephenson (artist), 

step daughter Rebecca Lavoritano (jewelry), 

and nephew Clifton Greenwood (sculpture).  

Stay turned for more details!

gangsters and other men III

oil on 4" x 4" panels

48" x 48" overall
This piece will be available next week at my upcoming show.
Click here for details.

little taos landscapes

oil on panels
8" x 8"
SOLD
These little landscapes were painted at SMU's Taos Campus last summer. I had a great time learning Plein Air painting with my art friends and teacher Suzanne Kelley Clark. We plan to repeat the trip this summer....especially the part where we made a pit stop in SanMta Fe to attend the International Folk Art Market. Fun times!

paddle plant

oil on canvas
18" x 36"
This piece will be available at my show
this Thursday March 8
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Center for BrainHealth
2200 West Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX
Hope you can come!

redeemer rock

oil on canvas
24" x 30"
This piece will be available at my show
this Thursday March 8
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Center for BrainHealth
2200 West Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX
Hope you can come!

fields of grey

oil on canvas
31" x 41"
This piece will be available at my show
this Thursday March 8
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Center for BrainHealth
2200 West Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX
Hope you can come!

earth's treasure

oil on canvas
60" x 48"
SOLD
This piece will be available at my show
this Thursday March 8
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Center for BrainHealth
2200 West Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX

gangsters and other men II

oil on 4" x 4" panels

48" x 48" overall
This piece will be available next week at my upcoming show.
Click here for details.

peace perfected

oil on canvas
24" x 30"
"God says to her,
'I will keep her in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on me,
because she trusts in me.'"
Isaiah 26:3
This piece will be available at my show
Thursday March 8
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Center for BrainHealth
2200 West Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX
Hope you can come!

sky praises

oil on canvas
48" x 48"
This piece will be available at my upcoming show.
Click here for details.

albert

oil on canvas
48" x 48"
SOLD
"Albert" is currently hanging at Blue Print.
Check out his guest appearance at Blue Print on their blog entry for Feb 22.
Click here for details about my upcoming show
at the Center for Brain Health.

gangstahs!

oil on panel
30" x 30"
SOLD
This piece will be available at my upcoming show.
Click here for details.

clapping trees

oil on canvas
60" x 48"
"You will live in joy and peace.
The mountains and hills will burst into song,
and the trees of the field will clap their hands!" Isaiah 55:12

I should name this painting "clapping trees transformed" because it looked like this a few months ago until it begged to be changed. But the painting did not posses the power to transform itself. The artist was the only one who could do the changing. I knew it could be more than it was so I recreated it into a new and better image. I tell you this story to illustrate a point about my faith. It is wrong thinking to believe we have to change in order to be a Christian. It is actually just the opposite. Christ, the creator God, is the one who transforms us.....until we look so much like Him that there is an unmistakable family likeness.

"Do not fear change, for I am making you a new creation,

with old things passing away and new things continually on the horizon."

2 Corinthians 5:17

For information on my next show click here.

Dictators and other Dicks

oil on board

48" x 48" framed
SOLD
Can you name all the Dictators?
Can you find the Dicks?
This piece will be available at my upcoming show.
Click here for details.

truth searching

oil on canvas
60" x 48"
For information on my next show click here.

grace growing

oil on canvas
48" x 48"
For information on my next show click here.

art for albert

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination" - Albert Einstein

Join us for
Center for BrainHealth
Art Show to celebrate
Creativity, the Brain & Einstein's Birthday
Featuring works by

Brenda Bogart
Abstract landscape and figurative oil paintings

Brad Oldham
Large and small scale sculptures

Stephanie Stephenson
Mixed media and collage

Wine, small bites, & birthday sweets

Thursday, March 8, 2012
6 to 8 pm

Center for BrainHealth
2200 West Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX

50% of proceeds from art sales will benefit the Center for BrainHealth
RSVP by March 5
maggie.flagg@utdallas.edu or 972.883.3225

Paintings will be installed through March 14th to view by appointment.
brendabogart@gmail.com

cellular

oil on board
72 x 12
Another HeLa cell inspired painting.
This painting can be hung vertically or horizontally.

gangsters and other men

oil on board
40 x 40
What started as a skill building exercise, inspired by Karin Jurick's Bust-Ed series, has turned into this 64 piece collection of 4" x 4" paintings. I learned so much....like painting an evil guy in pink makes him look less evil. Some of these guys look eerily familiar. Below are close ups of a few of my favorites:

Click here to check out my new work at Mecox Dallas

artichoke valley

oil on canvas

60 x 48
SOLD

kiss the son

oil on canvas
48 x 48
SOLD

all is well

oil on canvas
48 x 48
artists personal collection

fruit in its season

oil on canvas
48 x 48
I have been happily painting in my studio this spring and will post my new work over the next several days.
Thank you for viewing!

immortal

oil on canvas
48 x 24
sold
Earlier this year I read The Immortal Life Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot which inspired this painting.
This piece can be hung vertically or horizontally.

kings of the earth

oil on canvas
48 x 24
SOLD
This piece can be hung vertically or horizontally.

morning dawns

48 x 36
oil on canvas
Currently at Mecox Dallas
"God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns."
Psalm 46:5

austin

33 x 65
oil on canvas
framed
Six of my paintings will be shown this
Saturday April 16
at the
Spring Gallery Art Walk
1202 Dragon Street Suite 105
2:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Hope you can come!

floral panel I

24 x 36

oil on canvas
Six of my paintings will be shown this
Saturday April 16
at the
Spring Gallery Art Walk
1202 Dragon Street Suite 105
2:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Hope you can come!

sunset

48 x 36
oil on canvas
SOLD
That's how God's Word vaults across the skies
from sunrise to sunset,
Melting ice, scorching deserts,
warming hearts to faith.
Psalm 19:6

rock hill

oil on canvas
48 x 24
"and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ."

1 Corinthians 10:3-5

leafy vine

oil on canvas
48 x 48
SOLD
"And it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine. Its branches turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out leafy boughs.
Ezekiel 17:5-7

root scape

oil on canvas
48 x 24
sold
"In days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will bud and blossom and fill all the world with fruit."
Isaiah 27:5-7

seedlings

oil on canvas
48 x 24
sold
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.
Psalm 126:5-6

branch scape

oil on canvas

48 x 36

sold

"In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel."
Isaiah 4:1-3

rock valley

oil on canvas
40 x 30
artists personal collection
"So it's paramount that you keep the commandments of God, your God, walk down the roads he shows you and reverently respect him. God is about to bring you into a good land, a land with brooks and rivers, springs and lakes, streams out of the hills and through the valleys. It's a land of wheat and barley, of vines and figs and pomegranates, of olives, oil, and honey. It's land where you'll never go hungry—always food on the table and a roof over your head. It's a land where you'll get iron out of rocks and mine copper from the hills."
Deuteronomy 8:5-7

stone scape

oil on canvas
48 x 24
sold
"As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."
1 Peter 2:4-5

sprigs

oil on canvas
30 x 24
sold
"Thus says the Lord GOD: "I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain."
Ezekiel 17:21-23
This textural painting is the smallest of my new "sticks & stones" series featured in this years
2010 Tseelana Market
Thursday Oct 21 & Friday Oct 22
7501 Turtle Creek Blvd
Dallas TX 75225