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ALEXIA VOGEL

Alexia Vogel (born 1991) is a South African artist based in Cape Town, South Africa. She graduated from the University of Cape Town (UCT) Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2013. She is represented by Barnard Gallery.

Artistic Practice

Alexia Vogel’s artistic practice explores notions of nostalgia, fantasy and wanderlust on large scale canvasses and on paper. Vogel vividly explores the realms of imagination in order to create imagined paradises in suspended states of reverie. Her approach to texture is directed by instinct and spontaneity. Vogel continuously shifts between abstraction and figuration. More recently, the artist has been exploring aspects of journeying, passage and transition through the medium of paint.

Exhibitions

Since graduating, Vogel has had 4 solo exhibitions at Barnard Gallery, M Contemporary and Joburg Art Fair.

Selected solo exhibitions

• Alexia Vogel: Paintings, Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa (2015, solo exhibition) • Lost in Reverie, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2015, solo exhibition) • Yonder, M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia (2016, solo exhibition) • Along the Way, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2017, solo exhibition)

Selected group exhibitions

• Fluid: Perspectives in Paint, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2017) • Future / Present, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2016) • Picture & Paper, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2015) • Surface: Emerging Painters, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2015) • Paint Matters, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2014) • Greatest Hits, Association for Visual Arts (AVA), Cape Town, South Africa (2013)

Art Fairs

• AKAA, Paris (Barnard Gallery, 2017) • Sydney Contemporary, Sydney (M Contemporary, 2015) • Cape Town Art Fair (Barnard Gallery, 2014 – 2018) • Joburg Art Fair (Barnard Gallery, 2014)

Works in public collections

Alexia Vogel’s work is included in the University of Cape Town (UCT) art collection.

Awards

• Simon Gerson Prize, Cape Town (2013)

Residencies

• St Emilion, France (French Association, Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art) (2018)

Publications

Alexia Vogel: Along the Way (2017).

Publisher: Barnard Gallery Cape Town

Edition: 100 (signed and numbered)

Design: Alexia Vogel, Alexandra Zehaczek and Alastair Whitton

Layout: Alexandra Zehaczek

Texts: Charis de Kock and Houghton Kinsman

Studio Photography: Vanessa Cowling

Printing and Binding: Orms Print Room

Print Consultant: Zane Luther

ISBN: 978-0-620-75260-2

Copyright: Alexia Vogel and Barnard Gallery

Printed and bound in South Africa

Acquired in 2017 by the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and in the University of Cape Town (UCT) Library.