9/08/2012

The Incredible Talents Of Barb Vogel

By Casandra Cotton


Barb Vogel is a photographer and visual artist from Ohio. Her works regularly focus on ideas associated with family as well as with the passage associated with time. Through the years, Barbara has received numerous accolades and has obtained significant specialist experience as a photography instructor, curator, university faculty member, and more.

Growing up in Granville, Ohio, Barbara attained a B. F. A. In art, and proceeded to go on to earn an M. F. A. In photography from the State University of Ohio. She has partaken in countless exhibits and events and even boasted a solo display in 2011 at the Museum of Art in Springfield, Ohio. Within the very same year she was honored with a professional acknowledgement at the State Fair.

The Arts Council of Ohio will be promoting her throughout a residency at the Vermont Studio, which is to take place in September of this year. Presently Barbara is an active participant of an artist cooperative which is located in Columbus, and known as Spring Street Studios. She is also a fellow associate of "Creative Arts for Women" and the Ohio Art League.

Upcoming projects include a group show to be held at the Ross Museum located in Delaware, Ohio in March of 2013. This show is titled "Diverse" and will include six other female artists and their work. Following that show in May of 2013 will be an exhibition with Eileen Woods and Paula Nees at The Works Gallery in Newark, Ohio.

In 2009, Barbara received The Ohio Art Council's Award for Individual Artists, for her unique encaustic portrait work. Encaustic works, specifically the photographs of family and also friends, tend to be taken with negative color film. This is then scanned and then printed and fitted onto a board, which is finally fused together with pigment and then coated.

These kinds of images have a tendency to be caught out of focus, which is in fact the artist's intention. The exact effect was used on Barbara's Cosmos Fall series. Her House Collage series is truly intriguing, merely because it incorporates photos of her own family members. These pictures were printed onto a canvas and then paired together with personal mementos which were then fused.

Barbara's wooden portraits were actually motivated by memorabilia and pictures from her family's private collection. A large number of these particular items were actually stumbled upon prior to the sale of her parent's house, and she thought it would be a wonderful way to record these images. An easy artistic method is implemented for the wooden portraits. Negatives in black and white are made from the image and then printed directly onto a beautiful wooden surface. The surface area is protected with emulsion. Oil paints as well as carvings dug directly into the surface help make every piece come alive. Barbara has finished 50 portraits in this unique series, which in turn consists of all her first cousins.

If you have any queries or comments regarding Barb Vogel and her work, you can very easily get in contact with her through her website. You will also be able to find news on upcoming events featuring her magnificent work. Barb's unique style is very motivating, in both her painting and photography collections. They are genuinely dramatic as well as vibrant, allowing the audience to find an alternative meaning to an often straightforward image.




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