Thursday, May 22, 2014

F.A.R.M. exhibit in Lowell this summer

Allegan Fields 2- Acrylic, 2011, Virginia Wieringa

Rural Route 3- Acrylic, 2011, Virginia Wieringa
These two pieces will be included in the F.A.R.M. show at Lowell Arts http://www.lowellartsmi.org/#!farm-exhibition/c11tn this summer.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Festival 2014

These pieces were accepted into the regional competition Festival of the Arts 2014. They will hang at the UICA in Grand Rapids from the first weekend in June until August 17.

Barn Near Hamilton

Spaces Between 1
 

Thursday, May 08, 2014

Spaces Between 2

Spaces Between 2 Mixed media, Virginia Wieringa
This was done over a former painting. The painting underneath presents a nice surface and informs the new composition.
Spaces Between 1
I love doing these collages with tissue paper painted with acrylics. It's like quiliting, but the seat of your pants. I don't usually preplan these. This is built mainly on the design concepts of variety and repetition. At a certain point, I photograph the piece and evaluate what it needs by looking at it on the computer and adding things in Photoshop.

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

THIN PLACES


This collage, THIN PLACES, was created over the winter. It incorporates music and windows and circles to imply the thin place between the sacred and the earthly.