VIRGINIA SHARKEY
Virginia Sharkey’s mentor at Vassar College was the mythopoetic realist Alton Pickens. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo and Scuola Internazional di Grafica Venezia, the Belilnger Award at Chautauqua Institute, first and second prizes at Yosemite Renaissance Exhibitions, and recently a Soul.of.Artists award along with the Co-ordinators Prize at Sebastopol Center of the Arts. Her work can be found at Partners Gallery in Mendocino.
I am fascinated by the challenge of using the confines of the traditional two dimensional surface to make a dynamic dialogue between the intimate and the infinite. I use the diving board of the structures of time to create an experience that is celebratory: the puzzling amazement of how it is just to be alive.
