BIO
Virginia Mallon is a New York artist working in paint, photography, and mixed media. Her work contemplates religious, historic, and mythological women, personal histories (including her own), and the psychological undercurrents of modern society. With influences from social realism, political, and feminist art, it touches upon the angst and trauma of contemporary America, with a female point-of-view, on serial rapists, serial killers, forced birth, and religious fanatics, and ongoing attack on reproductive rights.
Mallon's work explores painting on non-traditional surfaces, such as burlap, slate, found objects, and cigar boxes as well as oil on canvas. Recent projects use discarded roof tiles from a former state-run (1885-1996) condemned psychiatric hospital. Now a hotspot for urbex explorers, it provides a wealth of unusual poignant pieces of history on which to paint. The added symbolism using a piece of broken shelter from an insane asylum seems appropriate for our times.
VIRGINIA MALLON
@VirginiaMallon | VirginiaMallon@gmail.com | 646-641-8545 | www.VirginiaMallon.com | Social Media Links
BACKGROUND and EXPERIENCE
Fat Canary Journal & Gallery- Founding Editor/Curator of the Fat Canary Journal an artist run, fine art journal, and virtual gallery that celebrates the work of contemporary and emerging artists. Open Road Creations provides pro-bono marketing/advertising services to artists and art organizations. Efforts includes virtual exhibits, website design, drafting promotional material and managing all aspects for gallery exhibits across the United States. In addition, administer annual scholarship for residency at Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi, Italy.
RECENT EXHIBITS
Solo
Even in the Garden, Ceres Gallery, NYC – June 2024
#brokenwomenmendstronger, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL – January 2019
Wake of the Dutchman, Alfred van Loen Gallery, Huntington, NY– February 2016
amulets spirits and everyday humans, National Association of Women Artists, NYC – Oct 2012
Life in Crab Meadow, Spoke Gallery, Huntington NY – November 2010
Crustaceans and Older Influences, HLW Gallery, NYC – June 1996
Curated Exhibits
Fat Canary at Ceres, New York, NY – May 2024
OUR CHOICE, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL – April 2023
Artists for Social Justice 2020, Kupferberg Gallery, Queens College CUNY, NYC – October 2020
Artists for Social Justice 2020, ARC Gallery, Chicago – October 2020
Social Distancing Festival, Toronto, Canada – March 2020
Select Juried and Pop-up Exhibitions
Welcome Home, Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY – November 2024
Democracy, WATWA/Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck, NJ – September 2024
Ancestral Intersections, New Hope Arts Legacy, New Hope, PA – September 2022
I am From, UpArts Incubator, Virtual, Lansdale, PA - August 2022
Welcome Back NY, Maggi Peyton Gallery of the City of New York - October 2021
Anniversary Exhibit at Citti di Assisi with Arte Studio Ginestrelle – September 2021
Memorial. Monument. Movement. Exhibition, Artists Against Racism, New Jersey – March 2021
Up Arts Incubator, Alone/Together, Lansdale, PA – February 2021
2020 Political Discord, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna, CA – October 2020
Hopkinton Center for the Arts, About What's Going On, virtual exhibit, July 2020
Baruch College, CUNY, Small Work Exhibit, NY - February 2018
Huntington Arts Council, Huntington, NY - February 2018
Publications
Calyx Journal, Cover Art, 2020, 2023
Mystic Blue Review January 2018
The Woven Tale Press, June 2017
The Island Review, 2017
Gambling the Aisle Literary Magazine, 2017
Temenos Journal, Central Michigan University, 2016 and 2017
Calyx Journal, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021
The Journal, Ohio State University, 2015