Photography is one of the most exciting media for creating art and documenting life. A good photographer's work can be just as interesting and visually appealing as a painting by one of the great masters. Add some unusual photographic techniques and you have works that truly stand out in a crowd of pictures. Someone who has mastered this art is Barb Vogel.
Barbara was raised in Ohio, in the village of Granville. After completing her school education, she attended Ohio State University, where she studied Fine Arts. For her Bachelor's of Fine Arts, she majored in painting. She then did a Master's degree where she focused on photography instead. Today she spends most of her time in Columbus, Ohio.
Unusual photographic processes are what characterize the artist's work. One of her specialties is working with encaustic processes. This involves taking photographs, often intentionally out of focus, and then scanning the negatives. From these scans she prints the images, mounts them and then coats them. This is then fused in wax and pigment. The result is a collection of images with a blurry, dreamy quality.
One of the series using encaustic processes was a collection of spontaneously shot images of friends and family. Family is one of Barbara's favorite themes. The 'House Collage Series' consists of family members shown in a collage style and using bright colors. Here the artist printed family photographs on canvas, placing the subjects against a house as backdrop. The collage effect was created by adding personal memorabilia. To finish, she used encaustic pigment to fuse the images, resulting in brightly-colored, yet intensely personal images.
Another series themed around Barbara's family is the series of fifty 'Portraits in Wood'. For this she made black-and-white photo negatives of family portraits and yearbook pictures of members of her family. Then she printed the images on emulsion-coated wood. The addition of oil paints added color, while carving into the wood created texture to make the pictures seem alive.
Barbara has also done series using traditional black-and-white pictures and silver gelatin prints. This was her response to a friend who said that she probably couldn't do it. The first series consists of photographs of Columbus, Ohio, showing the city and its community in all its many facets. The second series took Barbara further afield, on US Route 1 that starts in Fort Kent, Maine and ends in Key West, Florida. Along these 2,209 miles of highway, she documented the rich diversity of America.
Barbara has received many awards for her work. In 2012, Ohio's Arts Council granted her a residency in Johnson, Vermont at the Vermont Studio Center. She has also widely exhibited her work, including a show hosted by the Springfield Museum of Art.
There will be two exhibitions of Barb Vogel's art in Ohio in 2013. The Ross Museum in Delaware will present 'Diverse' in March. This show will include works by seven female artists. Then The Works Gallery in Newark will present a joint exhibition in May. Barbara will show her work along with the work of Eileen Woods and Paula Nees.
Barbara was raised in Ohio, in the village of Granville. After completing her school education, she attended Ohio State University, where she studied Fine Arts. For her Bachelor's of Fine Arts, she majored in painting. She then did a Master's degree where she focused on photography instead. Today she spends most of her time in Columbus, Ohio.
Unusual photographic processes are what characterize the artist's work. One of her specialties is working with encaustic processes. This involves taking photographs, often intentionally out of focus, and then scanning the negatives. From these scans she prints the images, mounts them and then coats them. This is then fused in wax and pigment. The result is a collection of images with a blurry, dreamy quality.
One of the series using encaustic processes was a collection of spontaneously shot images of friends and family. Family is one of Barbara's favorite themes. The 'House Collage Series' consists of family members shown in a collage style and using bright colors. Here the artist printed family photographs on canvas, placing the subjects against a house as backdrop. The collage effect was created by adding personal memorabilia. To finish, she used encaustic pigment to fuse the images, resulting in brightly-colored, yet intensely personal images.
Another series themed around Barbara's family is the series of fifty 'Portraits in Wood'. For this she made black-and-white photo negatives of family portraits and yearbook pictures of members of her family. Then she printed the images on emulsion-coated wood. The addition of oil paints added color, while carving into the wood created texture to make the pictures seem alive.
Barbara has also done series using traditional black-and-white pictures and silver gelatin prints. This was her response to a friend who said that she probably couldn't do it. The first series consists of photographs of Columbus, Ohio, showing the city and its community in all its many facets. The second series took Barbara further afield, on US Route 1 that starts in Fort Kent, Maine and ends in Key West, Florida. Along these 2,209 miles of highway, she documented the rich diversity of America.
Barbara has received many awards for her work. In 2012, Ohio's Arts Council granted her a residency in Johnson, Vermont at the Vermont Studio Center. She has also widely exhibited her work, including a show hosted by the Springfield Museum of Art.
There will be two exhibitions of Barb Vogel's art in Ohio in 2013. The Ross Museum in Delaware will present 'Diverse' in March. This show will include works by seven female artists. Then The Works Gallery in Newark will present a joint exhibition in May. Barbara will show her work along with the work of Eileen Woods and Paula Nees.
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