About the artist:

Born Oct. 13, 1928, in Brooklyn, as a child she showed a great interest in drawing. She attended the Philadelphia School of Art and maintained a career as an artist throughout her life. Impressed by the native American art represented in Kachina dolls, she developed a personal style in her 20s that always incorporated bright colors. Her work ranged from land and cityscape watercolors to small to life-size polychrome sculptures made almost entirely from discarded ornate furniture parts and other found or collected objects. In 2000, she was given the opportunity to create cow sculptures for the New York Cow Parade, and in 2002 she painted sculptures for the Rescue Dog book honoring the working dogs from Sept. 11, 2001. In 2005, her Big Apple sculpture was displayed outside Trump Tower. She swam regularly in Jamaica Bay and maintained an active and vibrant lifestyle throughout her life, attending many parties, art exhibits and concerts. Fogel's multifaceted planes which should recede far into the distance and give the illusion of depth because of their tonality and color intensity appear, instead, to be on the same plane. Because the depth of field is flattened, the color areas become rather decorative. In addition, the planes on the buildings are charmingly tilted and destorted, contributing to the zaniness and gaiety of these paintings. Fogel has a graceful sense of composition and her placement of shapes is always sound. The paintings, while they seem so effortless and unselfconscious, belie an unobtrusive and playful artistic intelligence. Fogel enjoys dealing with visual paradoxes in a natural, unforced and unselfconscious manner. Shop her watercolor art for sale online. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2002DOGNY 2000Cowparade, NY 1998Michael Ingbar Gallery, NY 1996-2002Nassau County Museum, Roslyn, NY 1993-2002Guild Hall, East hampton, NY 1991Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT 1990, 1997Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 1987, 1988Bergen County Museum, New Jersey 1986-1989The Country Gallery, long Island, NY 1983Zim Lerner Gallery, NY '83, '85, '86Grace Building, NY 1983Queens Museum, NY 1979, 1980Fabian Gallery, NY 1979Sculpture CEnter, NY 1979Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NY '79, '82, '83, '87, '90, '93, '94, '96Lever House, NY 1968, 1972, 1979Gold Door Gallery, Bucks County, Pa. 1968Brooklyn Museum, NY 1966Madison Square Garden Art and Antique Show, NY 1962New Jersey Water Color Society, New Jersey 1961Newark Museum, New Jersey ONE PERSON SHOWS 1997, 1999Temple Emanuel Gallery, Great Neck, New York 1996Shelter Rock Gallery, Long Island, New York 1989East End Arts, Long Island, New York 1985The Manhattan Borough President's Gallery, New York 1984The Erato Gallery, St. Maarten, Caribbean, NY 1982, 1985Mari Gallery, Mamaroneck, NY 1981Perin - Sharpe Gallery, New Caanan, CT 1981Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX 1974Aberbach Fine Art, NY 1971Kutztown Art College, PA 1965, 1966Krasner Gallery, NY 1963Art Alliance, Philladelphia, PA 1960Carus Gallery, NY 1960San Miguel Allende, Mexico COLLECTIONS Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA Private Collections in New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Florida, California, Mexico, Canada and Africa SCULPTURE INCLUDED BOOKS COW PARADE NEW YORK, Workman Publishing, New York BOX ART, Meilach, Crown, New York CREATING ART FROM ANYTHING, Meilach, Reilly and Lee, Chicago TOY SCULPTURE, Accorsi, Reinhold, New York CONTEMPORARY ART WITH WOOD, Meilach, Crown, New York CREATIVE CARVING, Meilach, Reilly and Lee Chicago WOOD WORKING, The New Wave, Meilach, Crown, New York Recorded my method of creating sculpture from found objects for Voice of America 1968