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 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.
Another interesting series is 'Portraits in Wood'. Barbara took portraits and yearbook pictures of family members, including her first cousins. She made black-and-white negatives of these and printed the images on wood coated with emulsion. To add color and texture, she used oil paints and wood-carving to create a total of fifty dramatic portraits.
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.
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 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.
Another interesting series is 'Portraits in Wood'. Barbara took portraits and yearbook pictures of family members, including her first cousins. She made black-and-white negatives of these and printed the images on wood coated with emulsion. To add color and texture, she used oil paints and wood-carving to create a total of fifty dramatic portraits.
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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