The Visual World Of Barb Vogel 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. An Ohio native, Barbara lives and works mainly in Columbus. She spent her childhood in Granville, after which she studied at the Ohio State University. There she first obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts, majoring in painting, and then she went on to obtain a Master’s 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. Family is a major theme in the artist’s work, as are friends. One series of encaustic work is called ‘Portraits of Friends and Family’ and features images taken spontaneously. Another series consists of family photographs that she printed on canvas. In each image, she placed the family members against a backdrop of a house. She then added memorabilia to personalize the image and fused everything in encaustic pigment to create brightly-colored, deeply personal pictures. This series is called the ‘House Collage Series’. 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 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. If you would like to see new works by Barb Vogel, there are two exhibitions to look forward to in 2013. In March there is a show called ‘Diverse’ at the Ross Museum. This is in Delaware, Ohio and the show will include works by seven female artists. In May Barbara will also take part in a
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joint exhibition with Eileen Woods and Paula Nees. This will take place at Newark, Ohio’s The Works Gallery. Learn more about Barb Vogel and her inspiring artwork at www.barbvogel.net today. You can find details about upcoming shows and the methods that are used in her creations when you visit http://www.barbvogel.net now. For further details, Visit The Visual World Of Barb Vogel
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