Fine Art by Donald G. Vogl - Abstract Paintings

Career Information

Don Vogl as Willie Nelson
circa 1975 as Willie Nelson

Don Vogl taught painting at the University of Notre Dame for 31 years. Mr. Vogl's art is on display in permanent collections at Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum, Midwest Museum of American Art-Elkhart, Haggerty Museum of Marquette University Milwaukee, Brauer Museum at Valparaiso University, Blank Center for the Arts in Michigan City, and South Bend Regional Museum of Art. He's listed in Who's Who in American Art 1988-99.

"I hope to capture energy and verve through improvising. I like a freshly done, effortless quality; bright, open, buoyant, free, light, air-bound; not heavy or ponderous. My training in abstract expressionism referred to spiritual concerns. I want to allow for my subconscious to be part of the whole process. The birds and animals are metaphors for flight, escape and vulnerability. For many works, shaping takes place from the outset and I try to finish with the same amount of directness. " - Donald G. Vogl

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Recent Shows
Awards
Exhibitions
One-Man Shows
Teaching
Education

DONALD G. VOGL
Associate Professor of Art Emeritus 1994
University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN 46556
3307 Sam Houston Circle · Fort Collins, CO 80525
(970) 226-3070 · donvogl@netzero.com

RECENT SHOWS IN COLORADO
	Night at the Oscars Fundraiser, Hilton Hotel, Fort Collins, CO 3 paintings, February 2008
	Chapungu Gallery, Centerra, Loveland, CO 5 paintings from Namibia, November 2007-February 2008
	Colorado Coalition of Artists (COCOA), Fort Collins, CO "Hawk", June 2007; "White Castle", December 2007
	Windsor Library, Windsor, CO, October 2007
	AIDS benefit, Fort Collins, CO, October 2007
	Studio Tour, Fort Collins, CO MOCA sponsored tour of artists' homes, September 2004-2007
	Carousel Theater, Fort Collins, CO, September 2006 and September 2007
	Compass Bank, Fort Collins, CO 14 landscapes, July and August 2007
	Bean Cycle, Fort Collins, CO "Peace Not War", July 2007 7 large paintings, June 2005
	Barnes and Noble, Centerra, Loveland, CO 2 demos, pastel, June 9-16, 2007
	Jennifer Amelia Studio, Fort Collins, CO 14 large paintings, June 2007
	The Vault, Fort Collins, CO "Fire and Ice", May 2007
	Readers Nook, Fort Collins, CO "Three birds and two flowers", May 2007
	La Luz Gallery, Fort Collins, CO 7 paintings, March 2007
	Centennial Gallery, Fort Collins, CO 20 landscapes, March 2007 15 landscapes, March 2005 8 landscapes, April 2004
	Gary Hixon Gallery, Fort Collins, CO, October 2006
	Cache Bank, Fort Collins, CO "Mint Collection," 10 paintings, January 2006
	Guitar Shop, Fort Collins, CO "Artists Assembled", 5 large paintings, December 2005
	Everyday Joe's Café, Fort Collins, CO 7 paintings, November 2005
	Renegade Gallery, Estes Park, CO 3 paintings, July and September 2005
	Rist Canyon Show, Rist Canyon, CO 2 pastels, September 2005
	Northern Colorado Artists National Show, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO "Mt. Shasta Gold" pastel, April 2005
	COCOA group show, Unitarian Church, Fort Collins, CO "Blue Nude" acrylic, 48"x36", February 2005
	IMPROV Gallery, Fort Collins, CO "Mutations", 8 large acrylics, April 2004
	Benson Gallery, Fort Collins, CO exhibited November 2003-January 2004

AWARDS
	Lincoln Gallery, Loveland, CO Second award, annual competition, landscape, pastel, Fall 2003
	Cross Currents, Blank Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN - Best of Show, 2000, "Elysian Shield", 55x60, acrylic - Third prize, 2002, "Turning Point", 59x59, acrylic
	Mid West Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN - Best of show award 1992, 14th annual Elkhart juried Regional "Black Gazelle", acrylic on canvas, 72"x50"
	West Washington Art Fair, South Bend, IN - Merit Award, "Delicate Arch", watercolor, 1991
	Salon Show Annual, Munster, IN - Best of Show, Surovek family Award of excellence, 1990 - Award of Distinction (Second Prize), 1989 - Best of Category, 1986
	Southern Shores Salon, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN -Third Place, 1987
	Elkhart Juried Regional, Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN - Purchase Award, 1990 - Best of show, 1985 -awards 1979 and 1980
	South Bend Art Center, South Bend, IN - Honorable Mention for "Alterations", 1985 - award 1978
	Gary Art League, Gary, IN - First Place, 1981 - Best of Show, 1979
	Indianapolis Art League, Indianapolis, IN - award, 1976

EXHIBITIONS
	Annual Salon Show, Munster, IN, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1993
	44th Annual Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville, IN
	Museum of Art and Science, Evansville IN, November 1991
	Annual Heartland Artists Regional Art Exhibit, Plymouth, IN, 1991, 1992
	Midwest Sculpture Show, 1990
	Michiana Biennial, South Bend Art Center, 1989
	Annual Area Artists, Michigan City Center for the Arts, 1987 and 1988
	North Shore Art League Midwest Print Show, Evanston, IL, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1994, Loyola University 1995, * Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL, 1988
	Art Market Sales and Rental, Century Center, South Bend, IN, 1987-1995
	Gary Community Health Association, Gary, IN, 1988
	"Art for Art's Sake" On Exhibit Gallery, South Bend, IN, 1985 and 1988
	Faith and Art, Presbyterian Church, LaPorte, IN, 1987 and 1991
	Public Space - Sacred Space, CIVA conference, Washington, DC, 1987
	"The Dunes" (Transformation as Inspiration), NIAA, Munster, IN, 1986
	Alliance Rental, Indianapolis Art Museum, 1985
	"Realism Today", Evansville Museum of Art, 1984
	Elkhart Regional Show, Midwest Museum of American Art, 1984, 1995
	Tri Kappa Regional, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 1982, 1983 and 1990
	Indiana University Northwest Gallery, Gary, IN, 1983-1984
	Aphrodisiac, 72"x59", Brookfield Zoo, May 1994
	Art Forms 1993 Aphrodisiac -acrylic, Lafayette Museum In, May- July 1993

ONE-MAN SHOWS
	"Summer - Winter", South Bend Regional Museum of Art April May 1997
	"Absolut Vogl", 40 works -Colfax Cultural Center December 1995 to January 1996
	"Antelope Variations ", 20 works, J. B. Blank Center For the Arts, Michigan City, May 1994
	"Shades of Orange", 60 works -Snite Museum, February 1993
	Hollyhock Gallery 13 paintings Tinkers Dam, Michigan City, Summer 1993
	16 Watercolors of western landscapes, West Georgia College of Art, Carrolton, GA, November 1991
	"Connections" (45 paintings and collages), Women's Art League Gallery, Century Center, South Bend, IN, October 1989

TEACHING
	Teaching, painting and printmaking at the University of Notre Dame, 1963 to 1994
	Designer for the Notre Dame Art Gallery (now the Snite Museum) for 10 years.
	Taught art at Marygrove College, Detroit, MI 1961-1963
	Taught art in Milwaukee School System, 1958-1961

EDUCATION
	Master of Science in Art Education, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee 1957-1958
	Bachelor of Art Education, Chicago Art Institute, University of Chicago 1953-1957
	Berkeley Art School, evening 1952
	California College of Arts and Crafts 1952
	Cleveland Art Institute summer 1946