VIRGINIA KATZ : SPACE AND FORM PAINTINGS

Film by Eric Minh Swenson.

Virginia Katz was born in Brooklyn, NY. She lives in Irvine, California and her studio is in Tustin.

She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from California State University, Long Beach in 2004. Her most recent solo exhibition was in October 2015 at Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, California which was reviewed in ArtScene. Prior to that she has had three previous solo exhibitions with Ruth Bachofner Gallery and solo exhibitions with Mainframe Gallery in Seattle, Washington, Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles, d.e.n. contemporary in Culver City and the Irvine Fine Arts Center in Irvine, CA. She has exhibited in group exhibitions in galleries, Colleges and Universities in Southern California and has also shown in New York, Europe, and Asia. Her work has been reviewed in The Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, ArtLtd., Art in America, and ArtScene among others and is in collections in California, New York, Europe, and Asia.

In 2014, she participated in a residency at Foundation Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands which culminated in an exhibition there. In 2015 she was an award recipient of Seen and Heard Project, an anonymously founded initiative that bestows grant recognition without application to Los Angeles-based women artists. In 2018, she will be one of five artists in an exhibition entitled The Feminine Sublime at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Since 2009, in addition to making art, she is a Moderator and Organizer of bi-monthly Art Discussions at ESXLA, International Residency and Gallery in downtown Los Angeles.

Her work has centered on the environment and its various elements of form – visible and invisible. She is interested in translating and revealing her experiences of nature into painting and various methods of drawing.

For more info on Eric Minh Swenson visit his website at thuvanarts.com. His art films can be seen at thuvanarts.com/take1

Eric Minh Swenson also covers the international art scene and his writings and photo essays can be seen at Huffington Post Arts : http://m.huffpost.com/us/author/eric-minh-swenson/

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