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 and is still based in this state, in the city of Columbus. After growing up in Granville, she went on to study Fine Arts at Ohio State University. For her Bachelor's degree, she majored in painting. Then she did a Master's degree in photography.
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 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.
A series of simple, traditional silver gelatin prints resulted after a dare from a friend, who challenged Barbara to do black-and-white photographs. Columbus, Ohio was the subject and Barbara managed to create beautiful portraits of her hometown with its people. This inspired another series that captures the United States along a 2,209-mile highway known as US Route 1. The highway stretches from Fort Kent in Maine to Key West, Florida, so the abundance of pictures capture a richly diverse country.
Barbara has held many exhibitions of her work, mainly around Ohio and including a solo show at the Springfield Museum of Art in 2011. Her work has been receiving rave reviews and she has won numerous awards. One of the most recent was being awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. The Ohion Arts Council sponsors this.
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 and is still based in this state, in the city of Columbus. After growing up in Granville, she went on to study Fine Arts at Ohio State University. For her Bachelor's degree, she majored in painting. Then she did a Master's degree in photography.
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 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.
A series of simple, traditional silver gelatin prints resulted after a dare from a friend, who challenged Barbara to do black-and-white photographs. Columbus, Ohio was the subject and Barbara managed to create beautiful portraits of her hometown with its people. This inspired another series that captures the United States along a 2,209-mile highway known as US Route 1. The highway stretches from Fort Kent in Maine to Key West, Florida, so the abundance of pictures capture a richly diverse country.
Barbara has held many exhibitions of her work, mainly around Ohio and including a solo show at the Springfield Museum of Art in 2011. Her work has been receiving rave reviews and she has won numerous awards. One of the most recent was being awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. The Ohion Arts Council sponsors this.
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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