Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/10-12-2021 -Event 1

LB1 + LB2 [Online] Guest Lecture - VLM 13:30-14:30

hosted by Shannon Liang

(Tutorials will be held on 17th of December. Sign up here)

Join Zoom Meeting https://hogeschoolrotterdam.zoom.us/j/96430561090?pwd=eVMrcjh0Z1lUOW15VFZQbTlnK2dwZz09

Meeting ID: 964 3056 1090 Passcode: 988182

Many of her works are available to view on her website: https://www.virginialeemontgomery.com/

Butterfly Birth Bed, VLM (2020); Sky Loop Install, VLM (2020)

VLM (b. Houston, Texas, USA) is a multi-media artist. She received her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture in 2016. Working across video, performance, sound, and sculpture, her artwork explores atomic consciousness from a metaphysical feminist POV through investigations of labor. Her artwork is surreal, sensorial, and symbolic. It blends together mysticism, science, and autobiography. It also shifts in subject matter from ponytails to particle accelerators, to syrups, stones, moths and machines as VLM deploys an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary of repeating gestures like drilling, dousing, or reaching and recursive symbols like circles, holes and spheres. Her diverse artistic movements interrogate the complex relationship between physical and psychic structures through gestures of agency.

VLM also works outside the "art world" as a visual ideation scribe, a Graphic Facilitator, a career for which she travels the country to diagram the development of ideas at group meetings, innovation events, and corporate conferences. In her work as a fine artist, VLM turns this professional skill-set, which she describes as “mind map scribing,” inwards, to render the contours of her own subconscious and the logic of her own dreams and memories. Collectively, VLM's symbols, forms, and gestures rupture material surfaces, opening up portals to unknown psychic ends.

Through her art practice, VLM openly addresses her own professional and personal work-life navigations as a single, self-supporting, working woman artist to foster an intersectional culture of labor transparency. Significant to her art practice is that she creates her own artwork herself through her diverse creative skill-sets, material knowledge, and research. VLM’s studio processes span stone carving to sound design and video production. Her recent projects focus upon themes of hope, healing, consciousness, and connection.

VLM has had solo shows with New Museum (NY), Times Square Arts (NY), Museum Folkwang (Germany), Wright Lab at Yale University (CT), The Lawndale Art Center (TX), False Flag (NY), and Hesse Flatow (NY). She has also exhibited in group exhibitions at institutions including SculptureCenter (NY), La Panacée-MoCo (France), The Hessel Museum at Bard College (NY), The Banff Centre (Canada), Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), The Menil Collection (TX), and Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark), among others...

SELECTED PRESS & MAGAZINE FEATURES

• A New Empathetic Lens: Virginia Lee Montgomery, Feature by Martha Tuttle, BOMB Magazine, 2020.

• The Truth of Metamorphosis: Virginia Lee Montgomery's Videos, Feature by Claudia Petraroli, Sajetta Magazine, 2020.

• Virginia Lee Montgomery’s Abject Whimsy, Feature by Eileen G’Selll, Hyperallergic, 2019.

Meta Luna, VLM (2020)