Saturday, September 8, 2012

Some Interesting Facts About Barb Vogel

By Casandra Cotton


Barb Vogel is a visual artist and photographer from Ohio. Her artwork often focuses on themes of family and with the passage of time. Over the years, Barbara has earned many awards and has gained significant professional experience as a curator, photography instructor, college faculty member, and much 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 Ohio Arts Council is sponsoring her for a residency that she has won for September of 2012 at the Vermont Studio Center. Currently Barbara is a member of a cooperative for artists, which is based in Columbus and is called, "Spring Street Studios". She is also a member of the Ohio Art League and Creative Arts of Women.

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 photographs tend to be taken out of focus which is intentional. The identical visual effect was also used on her Cosmos Fall series. Barbara's House Collage collection is truly fascinating, simply because it features images of her own family members, which have been printed onto canvas and mixed together with personal keepsakes and then fused with encaustic pigment.

Barbara's beautiful wooden portraits were in fact inspired by keepsakes and photos from her family's personal collection. A significant variety of these unique items were found prior to her parent's house being sold. She believed it would be the perfect way to save these images. A simple creative technique is applied for these wooden portraits. Black and white negatives are obtained from the picture, and then printed onto a wooden surface. The wood is then protected with an emulsion. Barbara has successfully completed fifty portraits in this exclusive collection.

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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