Virginia Katz
Virginia Katz is an artist who lives in Irvine, California.
Katz has had several solo exhibitions with Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica as well as solo exhibitions with Mainframe Gallery in Seattle, Washington, Jancar Gallery in Los Angeles, d.e.n. contemporary in Culver City and the Irvine Fine Arts Center in Irvine, CA. She has exhibited in group exhibitions in galleries, Museums, Colleges and Universities in Southern California and has also shown in New York, Europe, and Asia. She has recently exhibited her work at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and other Museum exhibitions including the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Riverside Art Museum, and the Laguna Art Museum.
Her work has been reviewed in The Los Angeles Times, Art in America and LA Weekly among many others and is in collections in California, New York, Europe, and Asia. She has participated in residencies in Europe and New York and in 2015; she was an award recipient of Seen and Heard Project, an anonymously funded initiative that bestows grant recognition without application to Los Angeles-based women artists.
Since 2009, in addition to making art, she is a Moderator and Organizer of bi-monthly Art Discussions at Eastside International a residency and gallery in downtown Los Angeles.
She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from California State University, Long Beach in 2004.
"My approach to painting and drawing is conceptually-driven and process-based. Using systems and materials that are closely related to the content of the work, I have investigated a variety of natural phenomena underpinned with an awareness of the laws of physics and philosophical inquiries. By directly interacting with natural phenomena, I have mapped the wind, charted ocean tides, created textural topographical prints and three-dimensional landscape paintings, and recorded the activities of people in public places. Each series is connected to the other in some way in that something learned from one body of work led to the next. The art has taken the forms of works on paper, installations, paper constructions, and paintings on panel."
