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VIRGINIA BATSON • Click here for exhibition history. Virginia Batson works in a range of media including organic mixed media sculpture, installation, abstract works on paper, video, language-based works, and artist’s books. The conceptual and poetic strength of her work can be attributed to her creative writing experience, while her extensive background in dance and yoga has honed the sensual, physical materiality that imbues her work and is inherent in her experimental art-making process.
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The new organic systems that arise are saturated with the potency of once-living cells, and echo natural and aesthetic forms. Now in progress, The Craving Project investigates cravings recorded by the artist and members of the public. The artist uses the craved substances as sculptural material and incorporates individuals' descriptive language into the objects. Virginia Batson was born in New Orleans in 1974 and currently lives in Philadelphia, where she received her MFA from The University of the Arts in 2002. She exhibits her work nationally, and her artists' books are in university and museum collections in New York and Philadelphia. Recently, Batson has created a body of work from her own body's residue (hair, fingernails), using glue as a skin to soak up texture and pattern from the skin of her body.
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| •Open Studio Exhibit (solo), Philadelphia Open Studio Tours, Philadelphia, PA, 2004, 2003, 2002 •From the Studio: Selections from the Philadelphia Open Studios Tour, Creative Artist Network, 2004 •Nano Show, Nexus/Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2004 •Thought Patterns: Pattern and Ideas in Recent Painting and Drawing, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ, 2004 •GROUP: 5 New Resident Artists, Nexus/Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia, PA, 2004 •Abstractions (Neuman Gallery Award), Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA, 2003 •Urban Cartography: a multi-media exhibition documenting life in the city, (3rd Place Award) Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, 2003 •9th Wexford Artists' Book Exhibition (International), Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland, 2003 •Postcards From the Edge, Visual AIDS, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY, 2003 •Art of Bookmaking Exhibition, Saul Alexander Gallery, Charleston County Public Library; Print Studio South (sponsor), Charleston, SC, 2003 |
•Virginia Batson: process, process, process (solo), Pooke Gallery, Natick, MA, 2003 •Art on the Page: A Selection of Artists' Books, Art in City Hall, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA, 2002 •Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA, 2002 •Artists' Books 2002, Cuesta College Fine Arts Department, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2002 •One-Hour Book Invitational (curator/artist), Book Arts Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2002 •projet MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project, North American traveling exhibit, Space 1026 (sponsor), Philadelphia, PA, 2002 •Book Arts: Images and Words, Cambridge Artists Cooperative, Cambridge, MA, 1999 •New Frontiers in Book Art: Artists' Books in New England, Lowell Street Gallery, The Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, 1998 •Louisiana Artists Annual, Clark Hall Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA, 1997 •By Hand, Southern Fine Arts Gallery, Southern University, New Orleans, LA, 1997 •Art for Art's Sake, Mary Viola Walker Gallery, New Orleans, LA, 1996 |
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