ARTIST STATEMENT
I “paint” with paper. Some papers are just the right shade, otherwise multiple layers are required to achieve the right hue and intensity. Natural colors, fibers, and textures add their own beauty. While influenced by historical figures of collage art such as Matisse and Blake, I focus on using paper to create the effect of paint. I choose motifs that are meaningful to me, impress me with their intensity and depth of color, or that communicate truth, goodness, and beauty. I hope to draw my viewers into a shared moment, memory, or emotion beyond the rendering on the canvas.
ARTIST BIO
Virginia Primozic was born in New Mexico, but has been nomadic since the age of six, her journey including Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Texas, and France. Virginia’s mother was also a professional artist, working primarily in oils, and it was through her influence that Virginia first began to consider paper as a primary medium.
The focus of Virginia’s work has been to develop the use of paper as paint. That is, to use the color and texture of handmade papers to recreate the effect of paint, or “paper paintings.”
Bios are supposed to include formal training, awards, exhibitions, etc. Virginia has some of these, but listing them probably won’t make you like her art more.
Virginia currently lives and works in Gallup, New Mexico, on the southern edge of the Navajo Nation, surrounded by the beauty of the American Southwest’s high desert landscape.