Virginia Bryant

A fifth generation San Franciscan, descended from artists, I have lived as a nomad, moving as I have to six different states in the USA and working in twice as many studios, and so of necessity it was the universal values found in international art histories, comparative theologies and spiritual practices which most consistently informed the direction of my work rather than the specifics of one physical place or tradition.

My design processes included rorschach prints, shibori and silkcreen.

My first design job was a tree for a feminist version of Waiting for Godot.

My first public art exhibitions were groups of wall hangings sewn and painted from recycled fabric scraps in the ARTERY African Art Gallery & Circle of Friends Craft Gallery both on Haight Street in 1978.

I practiced as an independant curator between 1986 - 2004, working with masters such as Steven Arnold, Bruce Conner, and Bob Rauschenburg, publicizing my related writings on these and other artists until 2002.

My awards for painting include a Sugarman Grant, Gottlieb Emergancy Grant, & Rauschenberg’s Change Foundation.

Over 60 exhibitions include Atlantic Center for the Arts, Holter Museum, Louisiana State Museum, Florida Gulf Coast University, t...

8 years ballet 74-82
17 years life drawing 74-91
1 year theatre arts 73
1 year drafting & color theory 81

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Fugues & Preludes, North Adams MA
2019 Fugue States, CC&C, Troy New York
2017 Victorian Abstraction, Curator Jim Lewis, Carmen’s Cafe, Troy New York
2016 To the North, St Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkill New York
2008 Clouds of Unknowing, Art Project Studio Show, Naples Florida
2003 New Works on Paper, Bay Front Center, Naples Florida
2001 Winter Paintings, Art Projects, Naples Florida
2001 Time and Evaporation, Art Projects, Naples Florida
2000 Painter’s Progress, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers Florida
1999 Ten Year Survey, Eden Park Gallery, Naples Florida
1998, 1997, 1996 West Wing Art Projects, Naples Florida
1997 Classical Abstraction, Sage Art Salon, Miami Florida
1992 Art of the 21rst Century, Naples Florida

Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Winter Salon, Scarlett Seven, Troy New York
2016 Great Places and Spaces, Albany State Museum, Albany New York
2015 Lake 10, Openings in St Paul the Apostle, New York New York
2014 Florida Contemporary, Baker-Artis Museum of Art, Naples Florida
2011, 2011 Incognito, Baker-Artis Museum of Art, Naples Florida
2004 Aspirants, Shamans & Mentors, Art Projects, Naples Florida
2003 FGCU First ...