Andy Vogt grew up in the suburbs of Washington DC, the son of a compulsive dumpster diving filmmaker and an environmental policy maker.  He earned his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University with a concentration in Intermedia, a program focused on time based media, performance and installation.  While at CMU he received a Student Undergraduate Research Grant to photographically document nationalism in pre-EU Europe.  More recently (though not that recently) his photographs have appeared on album covers for various independent record labels and on the pages of Wired, Rolling Stone and Spin magazines.

After moving to San Francisco during the height of the ‘dotcom boom’ (2000) he was sculpturally inspired by the wave of detritus produced by fervent home renovation, a result of rampant real estate speculation at the time. The hundreds of debris boxes that populated city streets were overflowing with the torn out remnants of Victorian era construction material much of it nearly a century old. In the face of San Francisco’s residential, commercial (and cultural) exfoliation at the time, he found inspiration for new structural forms scraped together from this subcutaneous supporting material headed for the landfill.

Andy's work has been exhibited nationally and locally at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, Swarm Gallery, Ampersand International Arts, Mission17 and Four Barrel Roasters.