DAN FOGEL – MFA Painting    

 
Ephram Daniel Fogel "Dan Fogel MFA"    
GALLERY REPRESENTATION    
 
G2 Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ 
IOTA Dallas
   
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE    
2008-present
Mesa Community College
 Mesa, AZ  
Professor of Art
  (Drawing)    
       
2004-2008
Mesa Community College
 Mesa, AZ  
  Adjunct Faculty - Instructor of Art
  (Drawing and Life Drawing)    
       
 2005-present
Scottsdale Artists' School  Scottsdale, AZ  
  Instructor of Painting and Life Drawing    
       
2006 Scottsdale Community College    Scottsdale, AZ  
Adjunct Faculty - Instructor of Art
  (Painting and Life Drawing)    
       
2002 –2004  
Arizona State University  Tempe, AZ  
Graduate Instructor of Record (Drawing)– School of Art    
       
2001 –2002  
Arizona State University  Tempe, AZ  
Graduate Instructor of Record (Color)– School of Art    
       
1998-1999  
University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT  
Guest Lecturer (Drawing)    
  Dept. of Continuing Education    
       
1998-2000  
Spy Hop productions Salt Lake City, UT  
Facilitator of Digital Video Clay Animation    
       
1997     
Helper  Workshops  Helper, UT  
  Studio Assistant    
       
EDUCATION    
       
 2004
Arizona State University Tempe, AZ  
M.F.A. Painting And Drawing.    
  Emphasis in Painting, Life Drawing and Monotype    
  -Thesis Exhibition: “Still life painting: Out of the Ordinary”    
       
1997  
University Of  Utah    Salt Lake City, UT  
  B.F.A. Painting And Drawing.
Emphasis in Life Drawing and Oil Painting
   
       
1996 Spring    
Studio Art Center International SACI   
Semester Abroad
Studied Painting, Art Restoration, Art History, and Italian
Florence, Italy  
       
SOLO AND GROUP SHOWS    
  2006 ‘Contemporary Still Lifes" G2 Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ
2006 Group Show. Gold Spot Gallery – curated by G2. Phoenix, AZ
2005 “Pause: Still- Life Painters” G2 Gallery. Scottsdale, AZ
2005 “New Realities” Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix Arizona
2004 “Still life paintings: Out of the Ordinary” M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition. ASU Harry Wood Gallery
2000 Art Access VSA non-profit gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
       
JURY SHOWS    
  2004 “Graduate Student Summer Show,” Juror: Trent Guerrin (director, G2 Gallery)
2004  “Building Sustainable Relationships: Art and Health Care,” Jurors: Mayme Kratz (artist, Lisa Sette Gallery) and Kevin Irvin (artist, gallery materia). In conjunction with Integrity Arts International. Phoenix, AZ
2003 “Printed Matter,” Studio/gallery 1023. Phoenix, AZ. Juror: Joe Segura, ASU School of Art.
2002 “Arizona Artist’s Guild Scholarship exhibition.” Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1999 “Utah Arts Council Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition,” Salt Lake City, UT. Jurors: Kay Miller (Artist, educator, Boulder, CO) and Prudence Roberts (Curator of American Art, Portland museum of Art).
1999 Kimball Art Center annual Painting & Sculpture, Park City, Utah
1998 “Utah Arts Council Mixed Media, Works on Paper,” Juror: Barbara Garret, (Visual Arts Director, Idaho Commission on the Arts.)
1998 74th Utah Spring Salon. Springville Museum of Art. Springville, UT
1997 73rd Utah Spring Salon. Springville Museum of Art. Springville, UT
       
EXHIBITIONS    
  2007 Mesa Community College. Faculty Show. Mesa, AZ
2003 Westin Kierland Resort Exhibition. Scottsdale, AZ
2002 Nathan Cummings Fellowship Competition. ASU School of Art
2001 Spy Hop Productions, Salt Lake City, UT
1999 Cordell Taylor Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
1998 Old Town Gallery, Park City, UT
1997 Arts of Utah Gallery, Salt Lake City
       
ART FESTIVALS    
 

2006-2008 Sausalito Art Festival
2000 -2008 Beverly Hills Affaire in the Gardens
2006 Cherry Creek Arts Festival
2005-2007 Scottsdale Arts Festival
1998 -2000 Park City Arts Festival

   
       
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS / SCHOLARSHIPS    
  2002 Eirene Peggy Lamb Endowed Fellowship
2001-2003 E. Blois Du Bois Foundation Graduate Scholarship.
2001, 2002 Arizona Artist’s Guild Visual Artist Scholarship.
1996 Painting Scholarship. Studio Art Center International, Florence, Italy.
       
BIBLIOGRAPHY    
  G2 Gallery, ad. American Art Collector, October 2006, p 89.
Gangelhoff, Bonnie, “The New Tableaux: Eight Contemporary Still-Life Painters,”Southwest Art, December 2005, 107.
Salt Lake Tribune Sunday June 14, 1998. “UTAH 98: Mixed media works on paper."
Catalog. 1998, 1997 Springville Museum of Art, Spring Salon
Catalog. 1998 Utah Arts Council Mixed Media, Works on Paper
       
AWARDS    
  2006 First Place in Painting. Sausalito Art Festival
2005 First Place in Painting. Scottsdale Arts Festival.
2005 First Place in Painting. Beverly Hills Affaire in the Garden.
1998 Juror’s Choice Award. Utah Arts Council. Works on Paper Show
1997 Award for Painting. Student Show, University of Utah
       
COLLECTIONS    
 

Shemer Art Center and Museum. Phoenix, AZ
Hundreds of Private collections

       
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL    
  1984-5 Japan, Hong Kong
1995-6 France, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands
       
ARTIST STATEMENT...    
     
 

As an artist, I am inspired by the way things look in the world around me and on my canvas. I want my artwork to first engage the eye and then the mind. It is my hope that if a painting is visually interesting it will lead to further contemplation.

My paintings are grounded in the tradition of realism but with a contemporary investigation into surface and pictorial space.  Their compositions invite viewers to consider metaphorical and psychological interpretations. The objects I paint serve as symbolic containers occupied by our thoughts and feelings. Their meanings contemplate states of openness and awareness. My subject matter is informed by experiences of emotion and vision as well as art history, critical theory, and contemporary art making practice. Visual poetry is my intention. These paintings are a reminder to let your hopes and dreams out of the box.

 
 

...Thanks for your interest!