About Virginia Erdie
Virginia Erdie is a classically trained fine artist who graduated from The Maryland Institute, College of Art and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, bachelor's and master's degrees respectively. She spent time in London as an exchange student, after being awarded the Jules Bodarky Scholarship and the E. A. Navaretta Scholarship through the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Her studies included travels across Europe, where she frequented the Louvre, The Pompidou, the Tate, The Rijksmuseum, and more. Though classically trained as a printmaker, she favored monotypes, which is an immediate painting process on plexi-glass and paper, rolled through a printing press. She journeyed onto painting and is now an abstract/fantasy painter. Her paintings and illustrations are admired by adults but more so by children.
Virginia exhibits frequently. Among some of the exhibits are CityLoftArt in the Miami Design District, where she was one of 3 artists sharing a beautiful space in the heart of the Art Basel Design District Events; international juried exhibit at SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco; Ward-Nasse Art Gallery's Salon Show in SoHo NYC, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, etc. Among other prestigious invitations were the Revolution Art Expo 2010 in Shanghai and the International Festival of Plastic Arts in Tunisia.
She has been published in art publications and her work has been represented in articles in the LondonPost, examiner.com, Helsinki FM, ArtCircuits Miami, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Delray Beach Times, Indie Arts, Santa Fe Artworld Collector's Choice Awards, Soul of Miami and more.
Her work has been auctioned for such causes as Susan G. Komen cure for cancer and "Grapes for Grades" for scholarship money to children in need. Diverse as she is, she implemented the architectural design for the exterior Miami Children's Hospital.
Her interest in children's art inspired her to be Production Designer for Classic Children's Theater Project "Don Coyote" at the Acorn Civic Theatre on
Miami Beach and to teach art to mentally disabled children and young adults.
She resides in Hollywood, Florida with her husband, where their home is considered the Dewey Street Museum of Art, filled with her own artwork and paintings and sculptures from other great artists.
Education:
BFA - The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland: 1982 - 1986Exchange Student - The Central School of Art & Design, London, England: 1984-1985MAAT - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: 1987-1989Studies and travel in:BALTIMORE LONDON PARIS AMSTERDAM EDINBURGH CHICAGO MIAMIEXHIBITS: CityLoftArt (European Art Gallery), the Miami Design District, Miami, FL (June 2009 - June 2010)Ward-Nasse Gallery, SoHo, New York City. May 2008 - October 2008Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, California. March 2008.New Port Richey Progress Energy Art Gallery, Group Exhibit, New Port Richey, FL. April 2008Infusion Gallery, Group Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA. March 2008Progress Energy Art, Group Exhibit, New Port Richey, FL (December 2007 - January 2008)VooDoo Lounge: New Times Tenth Anniversary Party, Fort Lauderdale, FL (December 1, 2007)One Tea Lounge, Solo Exhibit, Wilton Manors, FL (October 2007)ArtServe, The Red Eye - A Multi-Media Experience - (July 15 - August 10, 2007)ArtServe, Mix It Up - mixed media exhibit (May, 2007)South Regional BCC Library, Generations of Women Moving History Forward (March, 2007)Gallery of the Unknown Artists, Hollywood, Florida (November 13, 2005)Patch Reef Park, Boca Raton, Florida (July 2005)The Primitive Art Gallery, Hollywood, Florida (January 2004)FestivArts, Espanola Way, Miami Beach, Florida (1998)World Resources, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Florida (1998)Smiley's, Marathon Keys, Florida (1997)The MVSEVM, Chicago, Illinois "The Art of Survival" - non-profit organization for exhibiting artists (1994)The Village Tap, Chicago, Illinois - on-going exhibits for local artists (1994)The Charleston, Chicago, Illinois - on-going exhibits for local artists (1992 1993)The Gallery Cabaret, Chicago, Illinois - on-going exhibits for local artists (1989 2005)The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore Maryland - student shows (1982 1986)Cignel, Baltimore, Maryland - 2-person exhibit at large alternative dance club (1985)Central School of Art & Design, LONDON, England - student show (1985)Gallery 33, Baltimore, Maryland - 3-person exhibit at JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY GALLERY (1984),
