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Title: “The Purple Door / The Tooth Fairy”
Medium: Mixed Media on Interior Door(Plastic Bags, Cat Litter, Bird Seed, Acrylic, Resin, Digital Print, Epoxy Glaze)
Artist: Peter Bogdanov
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As a gallery curator, it is rare to encounter a piece that fully embodies the chaos and duality of modern mythology with such vivid tactility and psychological weight. Peter Bogdanov’s The Purple Door / The Tooth Fairy is one such work—a masterstroke in found-object surrealism, horror-fantasy iconography, and textural invention.
Side One: The Purple Door At first glance, “The Purple Door” reads like a cosmic scream—part anatomical study, part existential mirror. The greenish skull-like face appears to melt downward in an ecstatic gesture of terror or transformation, its elongated tongue descending into an ominous red-black maw. What’s remarkable is the visceral topography: Bogdanov constructs the surface using repurposed plastic grocery bags fused with cat litter and bird seed. The result is a grotesque skin—veined, blistered, and alive. This hand-built texture is sealed beneath a coat of high-gloss epoxy resin, giving the figure a disturbing wetness, as though it were still in the process of decomposition or birth. Amid the saturated purples and arterial reds, the viewer is drawn deep into the orifice-like center, hypnotized by the mandala-like grid of teeth and vertebrae. The figure becomes a doorway to something ancient and unknowable—hence the title. It is not just a door, it is a mouth to another plane.
Side Two: The Tooth Fairy Flip the piece, and you are confronted with a different, but no less unsettling deity. Here Bogdanov introduces The Tooth Fairy, not as a whimsical childhood visitor, but as a terrifying guardian of forgotten transactions. Wings extended like shattered blades, claws gripping the cityscape, this creature hovers in a night-rain urban dreamscape. It's a digitized demon hybrid—half-bat, half-beast, fused from painted sculpture and digital collage. This “fairy” has rows of glistening teeth, eyes like molten glass, and a predatory snarl that undermines any comfort its mythological name might imply. Reflected below in a pool of slick rainwater, the monster doubles itself—hinting at a dimension beneath ours where such beings might truly exist. The atmosphere of the piece—wet asphalt, diffused city lights, and streaks of rain—places the viewer directly in the path of the creature’s descent. It’s no longer knocking. It’s here.
The Artist: Peter Bogdanov & The Liquid Walls Legacy
Peter Bogdanov is a fourth-generation San Francisco native and a multidisciplinary force in the contemporary West Coast art scene. With decades of experience in tattoo artistry, fine art, branding, and large-scale murals, Bogdanov’s work explores the intersection of the sacred and profane, the mythical and the mechanical.
His mural brand, Liquid Walls, transforms spaces into portals of thought, beauty, and confrontation. This particular piece—The Purple Door / The Tooth Fairy—is a rare sculpture/painting hybrid that blends horror, pop surrealism, and outsider art into a functional object transformed into pure statement.
The Bogdanov family’s deep roots in art, music, and rebellion give this piece more than surface appeal—it is a talisman from a lineage of creators who refuse to look away from the strange or the sublime.
Collector’s Note:
At $4,200, this piece is more than a painting. It is a sculptural artifact, a double-sided myth, and an unforgettable conversation with your guests—or your demons. Few works manage to feel this alive. Even fewer dare to stare back.