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Virginia Sharkey, Signatura Acrylic, 40” x 40”, Linen, 2024
My interest in deep space started as a child looking at the stars in the Midwest. It has developed through many decades with ...the practice of mediation with its experience of an inner space, and with my long participation as a violinist in symphony orchestras, constantly enveloped within the “space” in a symphonic composition. The confined perimeters of a traditional two dimensional canvas present to me a challenge that I embrace; how to use these limitations to make something mysterious, ambiguous, and new which aims towards a singular point of beauty and serenity among a dynamic play between the intimate and the infinite. Though I have been enlightened by many “spiritual” traditions, my work celebrates the quotidian: essence, the elemental particles as in the physicists’ universe, and the apprehension of presence or fullness, as exemplified in certain zen paintings. I aim to create an experience in the viewer that is celebratory: the puzzle and amazement of how it is just to be alive. It is for this underlying goal that I often use the diving board of the structures of time.
A scholarship to Vassar College , the mentorship of the mythopoetic painter Alton Pickens, the conversation of fellow artists, galleries and museums of New York, the beauty of South Tirol and the oasis of the Mendocino Coast of Northern California have contributed to over 100 exhibitions in New York, California and Europe. Read more
Quintessence Acrylic
40” x 31”
Canvas
2023
40” x 31”
Canvas
2023
Tenzing
40" x 40"
Acrylic on Linen
2024Date
40" x 40"
Acrylic on Linen
2024Date
Sturzen Acrylic
36” x 36”
Canvas
2023
36” x 36”
Canvas
2023
The Midnight Series was recently inspired by a dark studio; with references to the night sky, the cosmos, the idea of mortality and the journey through life. My aim is ontological: to find the jewel in being alive and fabricate a mysterious presence, almost living and breathing, which leans into beauty,
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