Kuzana Ogg

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Kuzana Ogg
Kuzana Ogg, In Studio, Bakersfield California, 2015
Born	Kuzana Pandole (1971-08-31)August 31, 1971
Nationality	American
Education	SUNY Purchase
Known for	Painting
Movement	Abstract

Kuzana Ogg (born August 31, 1971) is an Indian painter who lives in the United States.^[1] Kuzana has participated in two residencies: in Red Wing, Minnesota, and in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Her paintings have been included on the sets of television shows and feature films including Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Southpaw and My All-American.^{[citation needed]} Kuzana's first solo museum exhibition was Oil at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in 2014. A second solo followed shortly thereafter, Rev Zero at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in 2015.

Early life and education[]

Kuzana was born in Bombay in the early 1970s. A short while later, Kuzana and her infant sister joined their newly immigrated parents in England. Kuzana's education was in a series of boarding schools; Cornwall and Surrey in England, after that- Kodaikanal in the south of India. At the age of 10, Kuzana and her family moved to New York. Her secondary education was completed at Catholic and public schools. In 1995, she graduated from SUNY Purchase. She spent six years living in Kyung Ju, South Korea; teaching English and learning Korean. She has participated in several residencies, the most recent in Sri Lanka.^[2]

Current work[]

Whether it was her exhibition titled "Oil” at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) in 2014 or "California Crude” at the Bakersfield Museum of Art (BMOA) in 2015, Kuzana Ogg has proved that "It takes the eye of an artist to find beauty in the oil rigs that line the roads into Bakersfield (in California)… With layers of color and texture, Ogg creates lustrous canvases based on the symbols depicted in piping and instrumentation diagrams from the oil industry”, notes the SLOMA website.^[3]

"The mangoes are a nostalgic reference to my childhood in India, the seeded fields to a desire for order and continuum, and the windows to the multiple iterations (repetition of a sequence) of humanity”, commented artist Kuzana Ogg (née Pandole) whose work has been frequently featured at exhibitions in US and Canada for the last over 15 years. With her canvases exhibited, published and collected both nationally and internationally, in the first quarter of 2012 her work was featured at LaGrange Art Museum, Georgia, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, GVG Contemporary, and New Mexico and Williamsburg Art ^[4]

Using a tempered and deliberate palette, the "Yasna" paintings point to notions of boundary and organization. In works like “Abanegan” and “Maidyoshahem”, the patterned orbs are easily anthropomorphic, becoming stand-ins for humans. They are each sectioned off, corralled, constricted within a designated area. In many cases, the swelling organic forms spill out beyond their bounds, as if they are outgrowing the space, becoming too large to be confined in such rigid domain. The bulk of Ogg's abstract aesthetic consists of botanical forms, biological entities, urban geometry and bold pattern. Inspired and informed by her early years in India, the controlled tones and forms within her work serve the same purpose as the gardens and trees surrounding her grandparents’ home: to mediate the noise and bustle just beyond them.^[5]

She recently attended a residency and exhibited her work in Sri Lanka. Currently, Kuzana lives in New Mexico with her husband. Kuzana's work revolves around images both botanical and biological in origin. These forms and colors take on new meaning when juxtaposed as a metaphor for the human experience.^[6]

Film credits[]

2016 TV series Bloodline, produced by Netflix ^[7]

Awards[]

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• 2013, Blue Man Group, Kuzana Ogg, Public Art Project, Briar Street Theater, Chicago, IL.^[8]
• 2013, BoxHeart Artist of the Year BoxHeart Artist of the Year, Kuzana Ogg, Pittsburgh City Paper, February 20, 2013.
• 2012, Albuquerques best art collections The city's Best Art Collections, Albuquerque Magazine, New Mexico, April 2012.
• 2009, Collected by the United States Embassys' program
• 2009, For Calendar 2010, SPAN United States Embassy New Delhi, 2009.

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