![]() Greatened exposure, collector base and really stretching those long legs, Jim took hold of his personal style and jumped head in. It was in a transition to “Blue Rain Gallery” in 2003 (at that time only in Taos) that Jim boomed. In 1999 a successful show in Santa Fe at the “Cline Fine Art Gallery”, brought the Vogel family (now complete with a daughter too) back to New Mexico. Jim turned away from a very successful and promising career to paint full time. Twelve years in the rat race and 2 sons later. His wife, Christen whom he met at CIA was also a design student and worked along side Jim as a Graphic Designer. Jim yearned to break free of constraints. Influenced by Peter Hurd and Luis Jimenez (cutting edge contemporary artists), this Colorado Institute of Art graduate found himself unfulfilled by the commercial world of art. In particular were the stories of the not too distant past of New Mexico the working cowboys, outlaws and hard, traditional lives of the elders. He sought refuge by escaping into the world of art, drawing and painting became a way to express the stories and ideas heard from his mother, father and maternal grandfather. Jim Vogelīorn in Roswell, New Mexico in 1964, Jim Vogel is the eleventh of twelve children. It looks as though she exists in Hell, but her cheeky grin suggests otherwise for within her exists a calm breath of self-acceptance…Heaven. In the Divino label painting, a woman sits in a monstrous and hostile environment, yet she is unphased by the hostility around her. We create a reality wherein we are never good enough, wagging our finger over our imperfections…Hell. In the Diavolo label painting, a woman sits in a lavish utopia, but she is in a Hell so troubling she can’t deal with the final task of applying her rouge a cry for help. Hell can look like Heaven and Heaven can look like Hell. Looking at the artwork Dorielle created for the Vivac Heaven & Hell Artist Labels, she describes the bigger meaning of her work: Dorielle’s work explores the relationship between grace & angst that both plague & glorify the private worlds of young women. Since then Dorielle has been featured in prestigious exhibitions & publications internationally. She completed a BFA (Summa Cum Laude) in Painting from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA & a Master Class in Painting at the Art Students League of Denver, CO after which she found unlikey job offers along with the realization that to be true to herself, she needed to be an artist. Bitten by the art bug as a young child, diagnosed with ADHD & Sensory Integration Dysfunction (giving her heightened sensitivity to external stimuli), Dorielle found a quiet centered world to immerse herself in with the arts. Dorielle was raised in New Mexico & has her current studio in Albuquerque NM.
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