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Artist Exhibitions:
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 ...
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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:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Virginia Maksymowicz
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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 Ohio, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. She is currently Associate Professor of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
For 30 years, Maksymowicz has been developing a type of imagery that addresses cultural and political issues in a nontraditional, but understandable, form. The artworks she creates are "readable" on multiple levels (often using humor as a "hook"), containing esthetic and historical references familiar to trained artists as well as real-life issues of importance to nonartists.
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