ARTIST STATEMENT
The focus of my work is on nature and science. Growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania nature was all around me. As a child observing nature I focused on the macro and the micro worlds – from veins and galls on a leaf, organisms swimming in puddles, tree bark, seeds, a birds nest on the windowsill, to observing the stars in the Milky way, the aurora borealis, an eclipse of the sun, and contemplating our place in the universe. I depict the phenomenon of life pointing to the science behind it.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Chicago artist Victoria Fuller has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her inflatable sculpture, “Bring Back the Extinct Northern White Rhino,” was featured in an exhibition about animal extinction at The Buffalo Museum of Science and had a solo exhibition of her work her at the Susquehanna Art Museum in Harrisburg, PA, in 2022-2023. Several of her artworks are in the collection of Artemezia Foundation Museum in Bisbee, Arizona. She was awarded the 2020 Dean Alan Olson Purchase Award at the Rockford Art Museum and was awarded Best of Show at the 2021 Evanston and Vicinity Biennial, Evanston, IL. In 2019 she was awarded the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) IAP Grant and an Illinois Arts Council CAAP Grant, in 2009. She also received fellowship awards from Illinois Arts Council and from the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities. Her large-scale public sculpture “Shoe of Shoes” is in the collection of Caleres Shoes in St. Louis. Sculptures commissions are: Sound Transit, Seattle, Comed, Chicago, and Delta Airlines Sky Lounge. Her large-scale public sculpture, titled “Canoe Fan,” was purchased by the city of Ann Arbor and installed in Gallop Park.
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