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Painter Virginia Derryberry will give an artist lecture at USC Upstate on March 2.
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The lecture coincides with an exhibition of her work, which will be on display in the Humanities and Performing Arts building from Feb. 17 to March 24.
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 idiosyncratic 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 M.A. in painting and printmaking at Nashville's Peabody College in 1976 and her M.F.A. in drawing and painting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in 1984. She 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, 2004
- Tennessee Artists, National Endowment for the Arts Offices, Washington, D.C., 2001
- Flying Solo, curated by Susan Knowles, Nashville International Airport, 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
- Fine Arts Center, Greenville, SC.
Derryberry's lecture will take place in the HPAC Gallery at 4 p.m. March 2 and will be followed by a reception. This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Jane Nodine at 864-503-5838 or at jnodine@uscupstate.edu.
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Work by Virginia Derryberry
