For many years, photography was regarded as a lesser art form. However, a good photograph can say just as much, if not more, than a painting or a sculpture can. As a medium, photography is also very versatile, with different techniques that can help the photographer create many completely different versions of the same photograph. One photographer who combines straightforward photography with different processes to create unusual pictures 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.
Alternative processes of photography are Barbara's specialty. One of these processes is encaustic work, which she used to create different photographic series. First she used film to take pictures with a shallow depth of field and out of focus, so that they would appear blurry. Next, the negatives were scanned in and the images printed. The printed images were then mounted and coated, after which she fused them in pigment and wax. The resultant images remind one of a dream world where nothing is completely clear and in focus.
One of the main themes in Barbara's work is family and friends. For example, one of her series created with encaustic processes is 'Portraits of Friends and Family'. Another family-themed series is the 'House Collage Series'. Here she printed family photographs on canvas, against houses as backdrops. Memorabilia arranged in collage form added a personal touch. Fusing the images in caustic pigment resulted in beautifully intimate, colorful images.
'Portraits in Wood' is a series where Barbara used wood as medium. She made black-and-white negatives of photographs that she found when going through family pictures and yearbooks. Using these negatives, she printed the images onto wood that she had coated with emulsion. Then she used oil paint to add color and carved into the wood to create texture. In this way, her fifty family portraits in this series seemed to come to life.
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.
In 2013 there will be two exhibitions of Barb Vogel's work. In March the Ross Museum in Delaware, Ohio will show her work along with those of six other woman artists. The show is called 'Diverse'. Then, in May, Barb will exhibit at The Works Gallery, which is in Newark, Ohio. This will be a joint exhibition with works by Paula Nees, Eileen Woods and 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.
Alternative processes of photography are Barbara's specialty. One of these processes is encaustic work, which she used to create different photographic series. First she used film to take pictures with a shallow depth of field and out of focus, so that they would appear blurry. Next, the negatives were scanned in and the images printed. The printed images were then mounted and coated, after which she fused them in pigment and wax. The resultant images remind one of a dream world where nothing is completely clear and in focus.
One of the main themes in Barbara's work is family and friends. For example, one of her series created with encaustic processes is 'Portraits of Friends and Family'. Another family-themed series is the 'House Collage Series'. Here she printed family photographs on canvas, against houses as backdrops. Memorabilia arranged in collage form added a personal touch. Fusing the images in caustic pigment resulted in beautifully intimate, colorful images.
'Portraits in Wood' is a series where Barbara used wood as medium. She made black-and-white negatives of photographs that she found when going through family pictures and yearbooks. Using these negatives, she printed the images onto wood that she had coated with emulsion. Then she used oil paint to add color and carved into the wood to create texture. In this way, her fifty family portraits in this series seemed to come to life.
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.
In 2013 there will be two exhibitions of Barb Vogel's work. In March the Ross Museum in Delaware, Ohio will show her work along with those of six other woman artists. The show is called 'Diverse'. Then, in May, Barb will exhibit at The Works Gallery, which is in Newark, Ohio. This will be a joint exhibition with works by Paula Nees, Eileen Woods and Barb Vogel.
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