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Artist Statement:
Virginia A. Erdie
3310 Emerald Pointe Drive,
<306-B
Hollywood, FL 33021
www.virginiaerdie.com
(305) 409-1662
Virginia_Erdie@bellsouth.net
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My style of painting, drawing,
and printmaking originated
from my exciting formal
training at The Maryland
Institute, College of Art. I
was awarded the Jules Bodarky
and the E. A. Navaretta
Scholarships and went to
London, England to study for
two trimesters. While there I
visited all the great Museums
in London and traveled to
Paris and Amsterdam to see
many museums there. I then
earned my Master’s degree from
The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. I
became a Registered Art
Therapist and worked as an art
therapist with the criminally
insane for about six years
after this. All of these
experiences contributed to my
selection of imagery and style
of work.
The most fascinating class I
took at The Maryland
Institute, College of Art was
Scientific Readings, where I
studied about the endless
possibilities of the universe
and beyond. Since then I have
been interested in Quantum
Physics and the String Theory.
I am constantly aware that
the time we spend here in this
reality is very, very brief in
relation to ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
CityLoftArt LLC, Miami Design
District, Miami, Florida.
June 2009.
Ward-Nasse Gallery Salon Show,
SoHo, NYC, New York. May 2008
- October 2008.
Raw Arts Festival - Infusion
Gallery, Los Angeles,
California. March 2008.
New Port Richey Progress
Energy Art Gallery, Group
Exhibit, New Port Richey, FL
(April 2008)
Gifford Lane Art ...
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
USA Songwriting - original
artwork for 2007 winner's CD.
Miami Children's Hospital -
implemented new building
architectural design. 2006.
Woodlands Elementary School -
Mural design. 2007.
Many residential murals....
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Virginia Erdie Biography:
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Age
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49
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
ecclectic |
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| Education |
Graduate Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
Art, swimming, travelling, reading, good friends. |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Expressionism - (1905 - 1945)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Chagall
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Les Fiances de la Tour Eiffel
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
The Maryland Institute, College of Art. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I was born an artist psychologically. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Virginia A. Erdie
3310 Emerald Pointe Drive, #306-B
Hollywood, FL 33021
www.virginiaerdie.com
(305) 409-1662
Virginia_Erdie@bellsouth.net
ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY
Virginia Erdie was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, and lived on a semi-working farm for the first 14 years of her life. She was mostly isolated for these years with most time spent riding her pony bareback and constantly catching salamanders, turtles and the like to take home as company. She left Fairmont when she was 23 years old on scholarship to The Maryland Institute, College of Art and graduated with a BFA in 1986. She used her scholarship money to spend two trimesters at The Central School of Art & Design in London, England in 1984-1985. She went on to obtain her Master’s degree in Art Therapy from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989.
Her biggest influences are Dali, Kandinsky, Klee, Miro, Chagall, Bosch, Ernst, Gorky, and Magritte. She saw many of their paintings while she was visiting the great galleries in London, Washington, DC, New York, Amsterdam, Paris, St. Petersburg, Chicago and Baltimore.
Virginia exhibits frequently and has gained the attention of the more innovative Press for her unconventional and thought-provoking imagery. Her work has evolved from her studies of psychology, as she worked as an art therapist with the criminally insane for 6 years. Also inspiring her work are her concerns about humanity, as she feels that our time spent on this Earth should not be consumed by greed and power and the striving for material things which obstruct the natural process of individual evolution necessary to make a healthier humankind.
The colors of her work range from the stark black and white etchings done at The Maryland Institute, College of Art 20 years ago to the present day warm, vivid oil-based acrylics on canvas. Her charcoal drawings she considers “subtractive” drawings, imagery formed from the unconscious; they are dreamlike and fuzzy black and whites. She also has a small gallery of mixed media, where she sews into the canvas found objects and fabric. All the images are mostly organic in nature, curving, and playful. Some are barely recognizable of representational things, some are completely abstract. Even the charcoal drawing of a photograph of her mother (when her mother was a child) on her rocking horse is dreamlike and fuzzy in nature. Virginia really doesn’t see reality the way most of us do.
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