Artist Profile
Living a full, conscious life, like painting, requires paying attention to and learning from the world around you and your experience in it. In the physical act of painting my immediate world, I discover clues and unfold truths about my life and the lives around me.
“Painting,” Vogels wrote, “is a way to pay attention. Living a full, conscious life, like painting, requires paying attention to and learning from the world around me and my experience in it. In the physical act of painting my immediate world, I discover clues and unfold truths about my life and the lives around me.”
From 2000 to 2024, Vogels painted seven main bodies of work. The predominate themes in her work were the figure, light and her immediate landscape. Her subject matter was always what was close at hand, familiar and the magic of the everyday.
Painters who had a strong influence on her work include: Claude Monet, Fairfield Porter, Alice Neel, David Hockney, Pierre Bonnard, Edvard Munch, Chuck Close, Wayne Theibaud, Gerhart Richter and photographer Sally Mann.
In the course of her relatively short career, Vogels held seven solo shows and participated in eighteen juried shows in the U.S, and abroad. She was represented in galleries in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. In 2012, her work was exhibited at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait as part of the Art in Embassies (AIE) program run by the U.S. Department of State.
In 2002, Vogels was chosen as one of 20 national emerging painters for the New American Paintings 2002 MFA Annual competition juried by chief curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Lisa Dennison. Among her other awards, her work was awarded the Carolyn Zakaski memorial award for Best in Show at the Alexandria Art League Gallery, housed in the Torpedo Factory Art Studios in Alexandria, VA.
She taught studio art and art history at Prince Georges Community College, Georgia Perimeter College, the Art Institute of Atlanta and Georgia State University. She also worked as a gallery educator at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC.
In 2003, she received her MFA from the Georgia State University Ernest B. Welch School of Art and Design. In addition to her time at GSU, Vogels studied and showed her work at the Australian National University School of Art in Canberra, Australia.
Vogels passed away in 2024. Her husband and children work to celebrate and conserve her artistic legacy.