Auction Ends: Mar 26, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

Paula Ogier

Northern Avenue Bridge

Item Number: 121

Estimated Value: 800 USD
Opening Bid: 800 USD

The winning bid will go to FrontStream Global Fund (tax ID 26-3265577), a 501c3 nonprofit organization, which will send the donation to BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER INC (tax ID 237000746) on behalf of the winner.

Item Description

32 inches w x 24 inches h

mixed media

(digital paint, photography) dye-sublimated print on aluminum with glossy finish.

Mounted on floating frame, wired, and ready to hang.

Artwork description:

The lovely bones of Boston's Northern Avenue Bridge, situated in Fort Point Channel between the Moakley Courthouse and the Barking Crab, have long captured the public’s imagination. During the 106 years that it was operable, it swung open from its center to let water traffic pass. The bridge was closed in 2014. Boston artist Paula Ogier pays tribute to its unusual beauty in her digitally painted photograph.

Item Special Note

Paula Ogier Artist Statement:

I paint scenes in the natural and manmade worlds. I’m interested in how these worlds feel energetically as well as how they interact with each other. Using color, line, and pattern to express the emotional story of a moment in time in a particular setting, I think of my works as love poems to life.

As a digital painter, I work with a stylus on a large monitor. I make both abstract and representational marks to develop the atmosphere and structures in my scenes. I create layer upon layer of these elements, experimenting with their placement in relation to one another. My artworks invite the viewer to see the wondrous in the mundane.