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 invitat...

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, 20...