Meet Virginia
I have been an artist and architect her whole life, building shelters for the neighborhood in Buffalo winters and entire cities made of tree branches in the summer while making art out of every available material to furnish these worlds. All of this is inspired by my Great grandfather Jackson the architect, and great Aunt Regina, the artist.
My first memorable experience with fine art was at the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York. I saw Dali’s Persistence of Memory and the installation of George Segal’s Cinema. It was an exciting field trip and has stayed in my memory as a point of eye-opening awareness. Having traveled the world starting with the 1967 World Fair in Toronto, riding the monorail through the American Pavilion geodesic dome, I became a firm believer in the greatness of the future, humanity's creativity, and the importance of art and design for the world.
The Time Will Come
Urban Glow
Inspiration
My art is influenced by the study of several art traditions in India. I was the first woman to study two unique art techniques that were exclusively done by men. Asian art aesthetic and the abstract nature of the narrative landscape paintings significantly influence my abstract urban landscapes. While studying painting in Florence, Italy, I started to develop a methodology of laying ideas, images, forms down and overlaying new imagery cutting back through the wet media to reveal the memory and ideas of the original painting. This concept of layering, revealing, and adding has been the cornerstone of my work, whether it is impressionistic landscapes or purely emotive abstract work. The work comes from similar processes of discovery of composition, layers, and techniques as I work through each piece.