Paul Vogeler is a painter, and his subjects are what most of us would deem as dark —to say the least. His practice is best described as the constant materialization of reflecting upon the human experience and mortality: an ongoing search for the physical symbols that reveal an eternal spiritual realm and mirror the feeling of being human. The body of work we present to you is part of a series called For the Love of Existence. 
 
The common thread through all of his work is the expression of the trauma of existence as narrated through the people, objects, symbols, and experiences this life reveals. His raw study of the human body in all its spiritual and decaying nature but also, in its full sexual capacity has been cause for censorship of his work.  

Paul believes that art in its highest form, seeks to express our actuality, both the fallen and the divine. For this reason art is so essential: the creation of art by its very nature continually connects our finite bodily forms to an infinite divine Being. He states that both subconsciousness and infinity are dark, and like our lives, are punctuated by moments of light—it is only from darkness that we can perceive its opposite. That is why in his painting he favors darkness over light, realism over abstraction, blackness over white.