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Born in 1947 and raised in southern California, Susan attended UCLA and the San Francisco Art Institute, and has been a working artist since the early 1970s. She began making art in Los Angeles experimenting with paper works and organic shapes, which developed into her studies of sculpture and art installations.
Kaiser-Vogel's concepts grew and flourished together with her colleagues in the Art and Space movement, working from a studio in Venice Beach.
After achieving an MFA at UCLA, Kaiser-Vogel constructed her first, and now iconic, piece on the arts campus - Blue Flame - in 1977. This particular work set the foundation for subsequent works to follow. Large sculptures and installation spaces constructed of brick, using new forms of aerospace epoxy, combined with pure pigments, resulted in dialogues of light, space, and color. In the two years that followed, she would build several of her most notable works, to include Death in Venice and Point Conception. Large scale installations continued through the 80s, as Susan gained recognition worldwide.
“In the late '80s Vogel relocated to the East coast of the US, where she began to work with bronze and experiment with color patinas. For more than decade she worked at a foundry just north of New York City in Patterson, NY developing special formulas for bronze staining.”
By the 1990s Susan was creating sculpture in bronze, developing skills with patina finishing. Her largest body of bronze work is titled Gravitational Objects.
In the 2000’s Susan has evolved into explorations of Light and Space via drawings and photographs, creating a vast study titled Darkness Visible. She continues to develop studies of light and space in photographic media today, working and residing in the Hudson Valley of New York.
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