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March Issue 2006
USC Upstate in Spartanburg, SC, Features Works by Virginia Derryberry
USC Upstate in Spartanburg,
SC, is presenting works by painter Virginia Derryberry at the
University Gallery, on view through Mar. 24, 2006.
According to an article in the Tennessee Historical Quarterly,
Derryberry's "work has been compared to everything from Giotto
to Magritte to Stephen King." She routinely uses the power
of symbols and myth in her painting.
"For inspiration, I look at references from art history in addition to the real environment and am influenced by the traditions of both the sublime and the 'diosyncratic in landscape painting,'" Derryberry writes. "In my current work, I continue to be attracted to the late intellectual landscapes of Nicholas Poussin -his complexity of composition, his use of figures and their juxtaposition of cold and warm color zones in space. The weighty presence of light in Italian paintings is also visually compelling to me."
Derryberry, a native of Nashville, TN, earned her undergraduate degree in art history at Vanderbilt University in 1973. She then continued her education, earning her MA in painting and printmaking at Nashville's Peabody College in 1976 and her MFA in drawing and painting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1984. Derryberry is currently an assistant professor of art, drawing, and painting at the University of North Carolina in Asheville. She travels extensively as a visiting artist and instructor, and maintains an active exhibition schedule throughout the Southeast.
Some of Derryberry's
previous exhibits include: Real/Abstract, Tower Gallery,
State University of New York, Brockport in 2004;
Tennessee Artists, National Endowment for the Arts Offices,
Washington, DC, in 2001; and Flying Solo, curated by Susan
Knowles, Nashville International Airport in 1998.
Derryberry's work also is held in public and corporate collections, including: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, Concourse E; Tennessee State Museum; The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia; Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; State of West Virginia Permanent Collection, Charleston, WV; HBO Corporation, Atlanta, GA; NationsBank (Bank of America), Charlotte, NC; and Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC.
Derryberry will give a lecture in the gallery on Mar. 2, 2006, at 4pm.
For more information
check our SC Institutional Gallery listings, contact Jane Nodine
at 864/503-5838 or e-mail to (jnodine@uscupstate.edu).
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