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Rudy Vogel – ‘The Renaissance Man’ – Joins The App Whisperer As A New Columnist

2012-10-30 / 4 Comments

We’re delighted to welcome Rudy Vogel as one of our new Columnists to theappwhisperer.com. Rudy think of himself as a ‘Renaissance Man’: schooled in several disciplines and a practitioner of commerce, computer science and, most recently my Digital Art, which he has perfected over the last ten years.

Rudy has traveled the world on business and has thereby inculcated the exotic tastes, colors, and aromas of foreign lands from the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe and the Caribbean into his work. Having grown and traveled with his father who was in the fashion business, he learned some of his craft through osmosis and instinctually portrays some hints of textile, fabrics, lines and curves into his art.

Rudy has been a photographer since his youth and his eye has thereby been trained to inherently identify interesting patterns, shadows & highlights and composition in virtually every image he sees. He brings these experiences to his art through the use of his computer and the software he has developed to create his unique form of art; and, more recently, the work he creates exclusively with his iPhone 4. Simply put, his art is atypical. No fractals, composites or ‘green screens’ are used; just layered, earthy textures, vibrant colors that coax the spectrum into refraction, architectural lines that lead the eye into space and, lights within shadows. This is how he builds his work, one pixelized brick at a time.

We have previously interviewed Rudy in our A Day In The life series, if you missed that you can read it here. Rudy’s column will be entitled ‘Appstrax’ and will be purely about iPhone art. This is one area that we particularly enjoy and was missing from our great repertoire of Columnist contributions. As our regular readers will be aware, we recently welcomed Richard Koci Hernandez, Kevin Kuster, Dan Marcolina, Keith Tharp, Misho Baranovic and Richard Gray to our team. We are growing at a phenomenal rate and trying to include as much unique content from the mobile photography and mobile art world as our readers can possibly digest, you really don’t need to go anywhere else!

Please join us by welcoming Rudy to theappwhisperer family, welcome Rudy.  We’ve just published Rudy’s first article to his new column, don’t miss it, go here to read.

 

Rudy Vogel

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‘I have had several private and public showings and my pieces have already worked their way into private collections. My work has been shown at various exhibitions and galleries around the world, including: The Annual Munson Massachusetts Spring Art Show; GaleriaZero, Barcelona, Spain & in Chelsea, London; The Forbes Galleries & The SOHO Gallery for Digital Art, New York, NY; The Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, The Orange County Center for Contemporary Art and, The Giorgi Gallery, in California; and, The Lunch Box Gallery, Miami Beach. Much of my recent work can be viewed at the premiere iPhonegraphic Art Collective in the world, Pixels At An Exhibition, with the url: www.pixelsatanexhibition.com

Museum quality prints of some of my work are for viewing and sale at www.p1xels.com Prices are listed’.

Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)

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