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Artist Statement:
Virginia Maksymowicz (b.
1952, Brooklyn, NY) is a
sculptor currently living in
Philadelphia. PA. In 1973, she
received a B.A. in Fine Arts
from Brooklyn College of the
City University of New York,
where she studied with Lucas
Samaras. In 1977, she earned
an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from
the University of California,
San Diego, where she worked
with Allan Kaprow, Eleanor
Antin, and Newton and Helen
Harrison. She has exhibited
her work at the Franklin
Furnace, Alternative Museum
and Grey Gallery in New York
City, as well as in college,
university and nonprofit
galleries throughout the U.S.
and abroad. In 1984, she was a
recipient of a National
Endowment for the Arts
fellowship in sculpture, and
over the years has been
honored with numerous other
grants and awards. Her artwork
has been reviewed in The New
York Times, New York Newsday,
The New Art Examiner and The
Philadelphia Inquirer. Her
series, The History of Art,
appears on the cover of The
Female Body, published by the
University of Michigan Press
in 1991.
Maksymowicz has been a
visiting professor of art at a
variety of colleges and
universities throughout the
United States including
Oberlin College in...
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Artist Reviews:
Exhibit Reviews and
Catalogues:
New York Times: Benjamin
Genocchio, “Married to Art
and Each Other,” April 27,
2008
New York Newsday: Ariella
Budnick, review of
“Couples,” April 11, 2008
Sculpture Magazine: Angela
Melkisethian, review of
Stations of the Cross,
July/August 2005
Sculpture Magazine: Ana Finel
Honigman, review of The ...
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Collections:
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Exhibitions for Virginia Maksymowicz:
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Solo:
2008 Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE: “Structure and Metaphor”
2007 Landmarks Contemporary Projects/Powel House, Philadelphia, PA: “Rules of Civility”
Narthex Gallery, Saint Peter’s Church, New York, NY: “Stations of the Cross
2006 Center Art Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI: “Searching for Patterns”
2005 Penelec Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA: “Stations of the Cross”
2003 Visual Arts Gallery, Richard E. Peeler Arts Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN: “Accumulated Intention”
2002 Ceres Project Room, Elizabeth Foundation, , NY: “The Physical Boundaries of this World”
Phillips Museum, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA: “Alternating Figures”
2001 Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: “Grief” window installation
2000 Phoenix Gallery Project Room, NYC: “Garden of Earthly Delights”
1998 St. Joseph’s University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: “Cameo Appearances”
1999 Artfronts, Philadelphia, PA: window installation
1989 Dana Gallery, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA: “Situational Ethics”
1988 Amos Eno Gallery, NYC: “Insider Information”
1987 Forum A Gallery, University of Maine at Augusta: solo show
1985 Federal Hall National Monument, NYC: “On The Street (A Lesson in Social
Stratification),” installation sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Public Image Gallery, NYC: “The Bottom Line,” installation sponsored by Public
Image and Artists Space/Artist Grants
Group:
2008 National Museum of Catholic Art and History, New York, NY: “Stations of the Cross” (3-person)
Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY: “Couples”
2007 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY: “Reconstructing the Feminist Past: Art World Critique, 1960 to Now”
2006 Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, CA: “Body Language: Figurative Works by Five Women Sculptors”
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA: “A Conversation at the Table”
2005 Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA: “Art Full Text”
Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: “Making History”
Williams Art Centery Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA: “Sheltered”
2004 Zonk Arts Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: “Multeity”
B Square Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: “Dream”
2003 Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO: “Corners”
Residential College Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI: “Frames of Identity:
Images of Self”
2002 The Stedman Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Rutgers University, Camden, PA: “Not So Pretty”
2001 Art Consortium Gallery, Portland Maine; Open space Gallery, Allentown, PA; Center for
Cultural Change, Northampton, MA (travelling exhibit): “Counting Coups”
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD: “Mardi Gras Soul Train”
2000 Baltimore Artscape: School 33 Gallery, Baltimore, MD: “Artafexus”
Phoenix Gallery Project Room, New York, NY: Generativity
1999 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA (site-specific installation with Blaise Tobia)
Baltimore Artscape: Viewing Stations, Baltimore, MD: “Martyrology” (installation)
1998 Borowsky Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: “Neoclassicism Revisted”
Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA: “Contempo-Italianate”
Westby Gallery, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ: “Reprocessed Legacies,” (4-person show)
1997 CCC Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: “WCA 25th Anniversary Exhibit”
1996 Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA: “Work/Space: Visual Relations Incorporate”
Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA: “Women: Object/Subject”
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA: “Transforming Tradition”
1995 Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon (Chicago), IL: “Lightweight Works”
Primary Object Gallery, San Antonio, TX: “People, Places, Things”
1994 S.S. White, Philadelphia, PA: “Sum & Parts”
Staller Center for the Arts, SUNY Stony Brook, NY: “Paper Works”
1994 Primary Object Gallery, San Antonio, TX: 2-person show
1993 City Hall, Philadelphia, PA: “All in All, I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia”
1992 Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, PA: “American Pie: Myth Representation” (4-person show)
Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV: “Market Strategies” (2-person show)
Maria Feliz Gallery, Jim Thorpe, PA: “Tangibles and Metaphors” (2-person show)
1991 The Alternative Museum, NYC: “Beyond Aesthetics: Works of Conscience”
ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL: “Inappropriate Men”
1990 The Clocktower, NYC: “Positive Actions: Visual AIDS”
Swords Into Plowshares Gallery, Detroit, MI: “Cultural Exchange” (2-person show)
The Armory, Philadelphia, PA: “Art at the Armory”
1989 N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL: “Assumptions”
Bronx River Art Gallery, NYC: “Art Against Apartheid”
1988 PS 122, NYC: “The Portrait Retold: Present Histories”
Islip Art Museum, NY: “The Plight of the Figure”
City Without Walls, Newark, NJ: “Uhruru: African and American Artists Against Apartheid”
1987 Franklin Furnace, NYC: “Money/Power”
Momenta Gallery, Philadelphia, PA: “Voices of Dissent”
Rotunda Gallery, NYC: “Fragments”
1986 Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA: “Oppression/Expression”
1985 Grey Gallery, New York University, NYC: “Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties”
Federal Hall National Monument, NYC: “On The Street (A Lesson in Social
Stratification),” installation sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Foundation
Public Image Gallery, NYC: “The Bottom Line,” window installation sponsored by Public Image and Artists Space/Artist
Grants
1984 22 Wooster, NYC: “Art Against Apartheid”
Artcite, Windsor, Ontario, Canada: “Crossed Borders”
1983 Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, MI: “The Demise of Opulence/The Death of Art”
1982 College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH: “Extended Stories”
1980 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil: “American Women Artists”
Federal Plaza, NYC: “Nineteen at Twenty Six”
1979 Pratt Gallery, NYC: “Art for Public Spaces: Proposals/Solutions”
Newhouse Gallery, NYC: “Artists By The Sea”
1978 Battery Park, NYC: Organization of Independent Artists
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