Abstract Masterworks & New Paradigm Projects

Virginia Bryant, Studios for Painting, Design & New Paradigm Strategies

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Clouds of Unknowing, Naples Florida 

2003 New works on Paper, Bayfront Center, Naples Florida

2001 Winter Paintings, Naples Florida

2001  Time and Evaporation, Naples Florida

2000 Painter’s Progress, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers Florida

1999 Ten Year Retrospective, Eden Park Gallery, Naples Florida

1998 Hayes Modern Gallery, Naples Florida

1998,1997,1996

West Wing Art Projects, Naples Florida

Selected  Group Exhibitions

2011  INCOGNITO, Naples Museum

2004 Aspirants, Shamans & Mentors, Naples Florida

2003 FGCU, First Five Years, Fort Myers Florida

2001 Winter Paintings, Naples Florida

2001, 2000, 1999  Art Encounter, von Liebig Center, Naples Florida

1999 A Sense of Place, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Smyrna Beach Florida

1998 ANA 27 Holter Museum, Juror, Perter Frank,Helena Montana

1998 Group Show, Heriad Chimino, New Orleans, Louisiana

1995 Organic Abstraction, Watchung Art Center, Plainfield New Jersey

1992 Black & Blue, Avalon New Orleans Louisiana

1990-91  Group Shows, Art Attacks, New Orleans Louisiana

1991  WAR Contemporary Art Center New Orleans

1990 Structures-Draper & Bryant, Heller Schaeffer Gallery, New Orleans Louisiana

1990  Spirituality in Contemporary Art, Louisiana State University

1989 Love & Death in Art, Downtown Gallery, New Orleans Louisiana

1989 The Figure in the 80’s, Downtown Gallery, New Orleans Louisiana

Awards

2005 Change Grant, CHANGE INC

2003 George Sugarman Foundation Award for Painting

2001 Merit Award, von Liebig Center, Naples Florida

2001  Gottlieb Emergency Grant

1998 Honorarium, West Wing Art Projects

1991 Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center

Selected Publications

2011 Flying Under the Radar, Creating Visual Jazz, Amy Bennett-Williams, News Press

2011 Journal of Integral Theory & Practice

2011 Small Things Considered, Janice Paine, Naples Daily News

2011 Recycling, Reinvention & Artistry, Joanna Hogan, News Press

2007 New Paradigm Blues, art commentary by artist, Gathering of Tribes, online NYC

2004 Exhibit Spanning the Stages of Expression, Mary Wozniak, News Press

2003 Abstract Fluidity, Janina Bertola, N Magazine

2002 The Last Bohemian, Janice Paine, Naples Daily

2001  What Painting Is, by James Elkins, review by artist in Parabola’s issue on “Light”

2000  Arcadia, American Landscape at the Turn of the Century, review by artist, News Press,

1999 Retinal Richness, Jules Olitski at Naples Museum, review by artist, Naples Daily

Selected Lectures

2006 Contemplation and Art, Florida Gulf Coast University Renaissance Academy

1998 The Found Object in Modern & Contemporary Art, West Wing Art Projects

1993 Line Direction & Movement, Edison College 

Selected Curatorial Projects

forthcoming, vita est sanctus, a revolution in values, title inspired by the works of Dr Martin Luther King

Aspirants, Shamans & Mentors with Darby Bannard, Bruce Conner, Tom Draper, Hollis Jeffcoat, Jim Krieger, KODO, Yves Martin, Morgan Paine, Melinda Russek, Seigan, Jerry Taylor and JB Trevor

The Found Object with Jeffrey Cook, Joan Dunkle, Sean Kilcoyne, Yves Martin, Dan Macneil, Paul Pinkman, Bob Rauschenberg, Sherry Rohl and Santina

Earth, first in a series of exhibits on the elements, Marilyn Crawford, Jean Dean & JoAnne Lizio