Mark Vogel

I create hard-edge, geometric abstract paintings and digital prints as a contemporary continuation of the Op Art genre. I am a colorist and find great joy in exploring the interaction of color. My work is an investigation of how colors can impart the impression of motion and depth, and how colors can evoke unique memories in each of us.

My work relies on arrangements of shape and line, and the choice of precise colors that create structures, flickering, glowing, or a sense of perspective. I enjoy the role that mathematics plays in my work, and the process of layer upon layer of colors that are applied using varying widths of masking tape to create the final result — which is something that I can’t see until the last piece of tape is removed.

I have been primarily influenced by the Op Artists of the 1960s and 1970s — especially Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz, as well as Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. I have been fascinated with the Op Art Movement ever since I bought a Vasarely poster at a psychedelic shop as a ten-year-old in the late 1960s.

Millersville University, B.A., Art, 1979

58th Annual Community Art Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, August 2020

59th Annual Community Art Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, August 2021

Allied Artists of America 108th Annual Juried Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, September 2021

International Juried Exhibition, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ, January-February 2022

Abstracts with Red 2022 International Juried Painting Competition, Camelback Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, January-February 2022

High Contrast International Juried Art Exhibition, The Art Effect, Trolley Barn Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY, March 11 – April 14, 2022

Undercover Artists Uncovered, Invitational Exhibition, Regitz Gallery, Ware Center, Lancaster, PA, May 6 – May 27, 2022.

Envision Arts, “Minimalism III” International Juried Exhibition, June 2022

Cerulean Arts’ 10th Annual Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, June 15 – July 17, 2022.

“Break of Day, Edge of Night” International Juried Exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY, July 19 – August 13, 2022

2022 “All Abstraction” Juried Exhibition

60th Annual Community Art Exhibition, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA, July 16, 2022 – Sept 4, 2022

Sofa King Abstract Juried Exhibi...