Virginia Glasmacher

Virginia Glasmacher explores a broad range of means of expression in her painting. The artist is rooted in the modernist tradition, taking the Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel as a point of departure for her painterly investigations.
For her, embracing abstraction does not mean a departure from the representational world. At times one seems to recognize a horizon, a reflecting water surface, cliff formations, general elements of landscape. Yet the viewer’s eye is always brought back to the surface, is drawn to patches of color or brushstrokes. Spontaneously emerging forms, such as those created by thin paint running down the canvas, are integrated into the overall composition. Individual brushstrokes remain as traces of the artist’s hand, thereby letting the viewer follow the development process.
The emergence of the image involves the interplay of consciously made decisions and a response to the given, to what has already emerged. In this artistic strategy, the most important stage is not the beginning of the painting process but its end, which is marked by the decision not to add anything else to the image, the decision that it is ultimately “found”.

Virginia Glasmacher received a B.A. in Visual Arts-Semiotics at Brown University, Providence, R.I. and has also studied at New York University and the International Fine Arts Summer-Academy, Salzburg. Her work has been shown at various art fairs including Art Basel, Art Cologne, Cologne Fine Art and Art Karlsruhe and her work is included in public and private collections throughout Germany and abroad.

Selected Exhibitions
2018 „BLITZEIS 2, Accrochage“, Galerie Anja Knoess, Cologne

2017 "Informelle Begegnungen. Annelen Käferstein, Peter Casagrande, Virginia Glasmacher", Galerie Kremers, Berlin

2016 "BLITZEIS, Accrochage", Galerie Anja Knoess, Cologne / „Im Frühling. Renate Brühl, Masanobu Mitsuyasu, Virginia Glasmacher", Kunstverein Wetzlar

2015 "Malerei", Stiftung und Freundeskreis Kurt Lehmann e.V., Staufen / „JETZT...UND WEITER, Malerei Vol. II. Andrea Damp - Sabine Dehnel - Virginia Glasmacher - Rebecca Raue - Tanja Rochelmeyer", Galerie Anja Knoess, Cologne

2014 „Gastspiel", Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich / Soloshow, Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf (catalogue) / Soloshow, UHZ, Bad Krozingen

2013 Soloshow, Galerie im Turm, Donaueschingen

2012 DSV Kunstkontor, Stuttgart

2011 „Natur und Sinnlichkeit", Galerie Epikur, Wuppertal (catalogue)

2010 Soloshow, mbf-kunstprojekte, Munich (catalogue)

2008 Soloshow, Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf (catalogue)

2005 Soloshow, „Farbe – Bewegung", Open Art, Galerie Thomas, Munich /
„40 Jahre Galerie Thomas", Galerie Thomas, Munich

2003 Soloshow, Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf

2002 „Nur Farbe", Galerie Thomas, Munich / Die Zentrale, Munich

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