Virginia Batson (Philadelphia)

"Virginia Batson works in a range of media including organic mixed media sculpture, installation, abstract works on paper, video, language-based works, and artist’s books. The conceptual and poetic strength of her work can be attributed to her creative writing experience, while her extensive background in dance and yoga has honed the sensual, physical materiality that imbues her work and is inherent in her experimental art-making process.

Recently, Batson has created a body of work from her own body's residue (hair, fingernails), using glue as a skin to soak up texture and pattern from the skin of her body. The new organic systems that arise are saturated with the potency of once-living cells, and echo natural and aesthetic forms. Now in progress, The Craving Project investigates cravings recorded by the artist and members of the public. The artist uses the craved substances as sculptural material and incorporates individuals' descriptive language into the objects.

Virginia Batson was born in New Orleans in 1974 and currently lives in Philadelphia, where she received her MFA from The University of the Arts in 2002. She exhibits her work nationally, and her artists' books are in university and museum collections in New York and Philadelphia."















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