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PORTAL 2
34" x 32"
Acrylic, linen, double ikat
$8000
YELLOW LINES
13" x 13"
Acrylic, linen, double ikat
$1000
LOSS
10" x 12"
Acrylic, linen
NFS
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
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Education
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1978-79
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Fiberworks, Berkeley, CA
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1971-72
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Riverside School of Arts and Crafts, New York
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1959-63
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Columbia University, Sociology
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1950-53
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MA, University of Illinois, Sociology
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1946-50
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BA, Smith College, Sociology
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Selected Exhibitions
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2003 |
Raking
Stones — Gallery of Art, Fontbonne University,— St.
Louis, MO
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2002 |
Looming
Large:Weavers of the Vanguard — Dean Lesher Regional Center
for Art, Walnut Creek, CA
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5th Internat'l
Festival of Tapestry & Fiberart—Beauvais, France
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Survey
Fiber 2002—Snyderman/Works Gallery—Philadelphia, PA
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2001
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Contemporary
Trends — Invitational — Gray Gallery — East Carolina
University, Greenville, NC
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2000
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13th International
Minitextile Biennial —Savaria Museum — Szombathely,
Hungary
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Biennale
Arelis — Cité Internationale des Artes — Paris,
France
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Indigo:
Bridging Cultures — Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art —
Chicago
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7th Internat'l
Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition — Univ.of Hawaii Art Gallery,
Honolulu, HW
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1999
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Chongju International
Craft Biennale — Invitational — Chongju, Korea
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"Converging Cultures," Center of Contemporary Arts, St. Louis, MO
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"Coloring Our Worlds," University of St. Thomas Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
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1998
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"9 x 9 x 3," American Craft Museum, New York, New York
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"Squared Off", Phoenix Gallery, New York, New York
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"Fiber 98", Textile Art Centre, Chicago, IL
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"14th Annual National Juried Exhibition", Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
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1997
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"Virginia Davis: Looking Backwards/Forward", Textile Art Centre, Chicago
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BACKGROUND SUMMARY
Virginia Davis works with ikat weaving and other resist techniques, both as an
internationally exhibited studio artist and from technical, historical, and ethnographic
perspectives. Her awards include a Fulbright to India and several individual Visual
Artist grants from NEA and the New York State Council for the Arts. In 1995, in
Mexico, via a joint NEA and Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes Award, she
taught and researched Mexican resist techniques. She lectures and gives workshops,
and she is widely published.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Hewlett-Packard Company;
Mr. & Mrs. R. Blomberg, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Alex & Camille Cook
ARTIST STATEMENT
I literally weave painter's linen canvas similar to the sort that can be purchased from
artists' materials suppliers. Ikat technique, dyeing and painting the yarn before
weaving, enables color and image to be embedded in the woven structure and locked
inside the canvas. From a 1990's perspective, my work examines and reinterprets
minimalism in the context of the symbolic significance of textile imagery. I comment on
the materials of art, referencing the 16th century transition from images realized in
fresco or on wood to painting on fabric (oil on linen). The image is caught inside the
canvas in my deconstructed paintings.
Formally, the work explores optical aspects of vision and nuances of value contrast.
Color reflects light differently depending on whether it is placed in the warp or weft.
The representation of space occurs through color overlay. There is a play of edge,
hard and feathered. Theme and variation interact and cumulate, stimulating a
meditative feeling. The work raises questions, pushes at boundaries and challenges
old definitions.
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