Artist of the Month ~ Karen Vogel/Contemporary Printmaker, BLOOM Series

Karen Vogel, local contemporary printmaker is the Artist of the Month at the downtown Fairfield University Bookstore, 1499 Post Road, Fairfield, CT 06824, 203-255-7756. Her exhibit BLOOM will be on display, April 1-30, 2013 in our Stairwell Art Space.

As a printmaker and painter Karen Vogel is drawn to the complex patterns and mysteries of nature contrasted with the man-made structures found in the natural environment.

Specializing in monoprints, which is her main source of visual expression, a process that involves a layering of shapes and textures derived from stencils, paper lithography, collagraphs and monotype plates. Juxtaposed, the layers exist as a tension, a restless balance between formal compositions and the growth and decay of organic life. The energy that develops when opposing force parallel one another is what interests Ms. Vogel.

Karen Vogel began her art career studying painting and drawing at New York’s Art Students League, The Corcoran School of Art in Washington, and printmaking at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk CT. Karen teaches printmaking in her studio in Norwalk and maintains her relationship with the natural environment through graduate programs at the New York Botanical Garden.

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