Glen Fogel

Last updated
Glen Fogel
Born1977 (age 4748)
Education M.F.A. The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College
Alma mater Bard College
Website glenfogel.com/index.html

Glen Fogel (born 1977 in Denver, Colorado) is a New York-based artist.

Contents

Work

About the intensely personal nature of his work, Fogel has said: “I wonder if all art is portraiture of some kind, like the primal impulse to portray ourselves.” [1]

Fogel’s 5-channel video installation "With Me... You" (2011) uses his strategy of superimposing elements of his personal history onto found public material and forms of mass marketing. For this piece, Fogel borrowed and videotaped wedding and engagement rings in his family’s possession. Going back to his great-grandmother's ring that has been stripped of its jewels, and including the wedding rings of his mother and sister, Fogel assembled 4 generations of his family’s most precious heirlooms into a synced video installation. Filmed in extreme closeup and high definition, Fogel exploits the meticulous display style of The Home Shopping Network. The rings rotate, freely floating in unarticulated space while a sequence of colored gels form the background, flooding the gallery with ambient hues. The video is interrupted intermittently when an incoming ‘text message’ sound signals fluorescent lights to switch on in the gallery, replacing and at times obliterating the images. [2]

Education and career

In 2010, Fogel received his Master of Fine Arts from The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Annandale-On-Hudson, NY).[ citation needed ]

Glen Fogel is represented by JTT Archived 18 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine gallery in New York, NY. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Portland, Houston, Savannah, Santa Barbara, Istanbul, Turkey and Porto, Portugal. His work has been part of many group shows, including the 2002 Whitney Biennial and more recently, "Uncommon Commonalities" (Aspect/Ratio, 2015). [3]

Fogel is currently the Technical Director and a faculty member at The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Annandale-On-Hudson, NY).[ citation needed ] He is also a visiting artist lecturer at The Cooper Union, New York, NY, and Princeton University, NJ.[ citation needed ]

Awards and honors

In 2009 he was awarded the Princess Grace Award, and in 2008 he was the recipient of a grant from The Rema Hort Mann Foundation. In 2006, he was the recipient of a grant from MAP Production Fund, Creative Capital. [4]

References

  1. Kennedy, Kristan (19 April 2012). "Truth, Portraiture, and the Uncomfortable Middle: And Interview with Glen Fogel". PICA. Archived from the original on 13 August 2020.
  2. Gangitano, Lia (2011). "Perspectives 176: Glen Fogel, With Me... You".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Unknown. "Glen Fogel CV" (PDF). Calicoon Fine Arts, Glen Fogel CV. Calicoon Fine Arts. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  4. Godard, Jefferson. "Glen Fogel CV" (PDF). Aspect/Ratio Glen Fogel CV. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.