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Untitled Vigil #1 (venus by the seashore) Painting
United States
Painting, Paper on Paper
Size: 32 W x 26 H x 1 D in
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About The Artwork
In my work, I utilize silhouettes of female bodies and prehistoric images of women including the “Venus of Willendorf” and Cycladic figurines. I make use of red wine–a ubiquitous but symbolically rich material–to explore our relationship not only to representations of landscape, but also to traditional images of women. My interest in visual images centers around the relationship of the universal and the personal. Rather than being in opposition to each other, these form a relationship that can lead to further insight. My work probes this idea in various ways, but my principal interest began with meditations on the mechanism of memory and its parallels to the production of images. In our process of memory, a simple image – one that we might call universal – can prompt the viewer to recall far more than what is depicted. In my work, I seek to activate personal memory by reducing images to their most basic components. By repeating these archetypal images, I can investigate how our perception of a woman’s place in society can change as the images are repeated and expressed in new contexts and through new mediums. I found that this process could also be expressed on a material level. The resulting variations dependent on the structured repetition in printmaking reveal incredible possibilities not unlike the differences our personal experiences bring to oft-repeated and familiar images. Materials and processes where there exist both a cooperation with and an opposition to structured and recurring elements allow me to investigate the repetition of archetypes and the resulting anomalies. While I attempt to control the capricious medium of red wine through my adaptation of various painting and printmaking methods (vinography), I also allow its mercurial nature to inform the works I create.
Original Created:2012
Subjects:Beach
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Paper on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:32 W x 26 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Victoria Febrer is a fine artist based in NYC. Her work has been shown in the US, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, and Japan, with solo exhibitions in New York, Valencia, and Madrid. Her interests are centered on the relationship of the universal and the personal, and the way that repeated images and icons have influenced our understandings of our place in the world. She works in a variety of media including paint, film projection, and red wine. Victoria is committed to the vital role of a critical arts practice as a force for lasting positive social change as a key tool in the empowerment of communities. She has taught youth, children, and families at diverse institutions including the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Free Arts NYC, Center for Arts Education, the Cooper Union, and Stony Brook University. Victoria Febrer is a proud graduate of the Cooper Union and the recipient of the American Association of Colleges & Universities' K. Patricia Cross Award for Future Leaders in Education.
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