"...It is easy to critique advertising, pornography, and the photoshopped ideal. Bondgren’s work embarks on the more perilous path of activating the desire that pulses in response to the idealized image of the body and its parts while at the same time exposing its artificiality and its inhumanity. Moving between representation and abstraction, and blurring the lines between graphic design and painting, he props these images of parts against equally (or more) sensuous abstract lines, painted contours, and unrecognizable fragments. In his work, these non-figurative elements compete for our attention and attempt to seduce us into seeing them as parts to be loved and desired — even if we don’t know why. It is this promiscuous relation between appropriated images and created forms that makes Bondgren’s work subversive in a sensuality in which glimpses of fantasy and flashes of accusation compete for our look."

David Getsy, 2008