Vogel, Verna

Bobbie Burgers is a contemporary Canadian painter. Her lush and Expressionistic depictions of flowers teeter on the verge of abstraction, bursting with bright color and laden with thickly applied, textural paint. “Flowers, to me, are the opposite of still,” the artist has explained. “Changing from minute to minute, they are perfect symbols for life, death, yearning, and beauty. My brushstrokes are layered with my own internal charges, depicting anger, frustration, softness, wanting, and more.” Born in 1973 in Vancouver, Canada, she studied Art History at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Her work has been exhibited widely at home and abroad, notably including Art Market San Francisco and Equinox Gallery. Today, her works are in the collections of the Berost Corporation in Toronto and the Royal Bank of Canada, among others. Burgers lives and works in Vancouver, Canada.

Vogel, Verna

"My work has turned toward the role of natural environments within urban settings, together with a deeper exploration of abstract imagery."

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

Verna Vogel was born and spent her childhood in rural Ontario, Canada. As an adult she moved to the city, and has lived in various cities across Canada and abroad since then.

In 1997 Verna completed a Studio Arts Foundation diploma program Capilano University in North Vancouver, BC. While enrolled in the Studio Arts program she embarked on an intensive, self-directed study of the human figure.

In 1998 Verna received an international study grant which allowed her to live in Kuala Lumpur for 8 months while studying fine arts at the Institut Seni Lukis Malaysia, where she focused on Chinese Ink Painting and Asian cultural studies. On her return to Canada Verna resumed her explorations of the human figure by organizing and monitoring life drawing sessions at various institutions and studios throughout Vancouver.

After this period of intense study, Verna’s focus shifted away from the figurative and toward abstraction and the urban environment. When she made her first stitched canvases, it opened a new way for her to explore ideas of urban and manufactured environments, and for the next decade her work evolved around these ideas.

More recently, the focus of Verna’s work has turned toward the role of natural environments within urban settings, together with a deeper exploration of abstract imagery. Her sewing machine still contributes an integral element to her work.

Verna Vogel currently lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. Her works can be found in collections across Canada, and in the US and Europe.

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

1997 Studio Arts Diploma – Capilano University, N. Vancouver BC
1998 Fine Art Year 3 Certificate – Malaysian Institute of Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS

2015 CHROMA: Living With Art – Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary AB – with Mike Binzer
2014 The Persistence Of Memory / Voyage – Front Gallery, Edmonton AB – with Amy Dryer
2013 Tintinnabulation – AXIS Contemporary Art, Calgary AB
2012 Urban Seams – Front Gallery, Edmonton AB
2011 Ecosystems – Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver BC
2011 Between The Lines – Front Gallery, Edmonton AB
2010 Drift and Settle – AXIS Contemporary Art, Calgary AB
2008 1000 Furnished Rooms – AXIS Contemporary Art, Calgary AB
2005 Enjoying The View – Steeps Urban Teahouse, Calgary AB
2005 Life Works – Untitled Arts Society, Calgary AB
2004 Stack – Epcor Centre Plus 15 window for Untitled Art Society, Calgary AB
1999 Life Works – Basic Inquiry, Vancouver BC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Exposure Photography Festival - Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary, AB

2015 This House Is On Fire – New Edward Gallery, Calgary AB
2014-16 Eye And The City – Art Gallery of Alberta, Travelling Exhibition
2014 Painting On The Edge – Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver BC
2012 AIRS – Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver BC
2011 E C O S Y S T E M S – UAS Satellite Gallery – curated project exhibition, Calgary AB
2009 Artists’ Circle exhibition – Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary AB
2008 The Artists’ Circle of Calgary, New Generation – Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary

PROJECTS

2011 Verna Vogel conceived and implemented “E C O S Y S T E M S” in an endeavour to explore intersections of urban and natural environment from multiple points of view. She invited 12 different artists to make landscapes using 12 of her stitched canvases, and the resulting works were shown at the Untitled Art Society’s Satellite Gallery.

MEMBERSHIPS

2008 Nominated into the Artists’ Circle, CCAS Triangle Gallery, Calgary AB
2009 Supporting Member of Alberta Society of Artists, Calgary chapter

COMMUNITY

2008 – 2014  Yearly artwork donation to CPO’s Cork & Canvas event, Calgary AB
2004 – 2009  Volunteer docent at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary AB
2005 – 2009 Volunteer installation crew at the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary AB
1995 – 2001  Organized and ran life drawing sessions at Basic Inquiry Studio, Jericho Arts Centre and several other locations, Vancouver BC
1994 – 1995  Volunteer docent at the Community Arts Council Gallery, Vancouver BC

AWARDS

1998 Asia-Pacific College Student’s Award, BC Centre for International Education

Source:

http://thefrontgallery.com/verna-vogel