Virginia L. Montgomery
Virginia L. Montgomery (b. 1986; Houston, TX) is an artist working between Texas and New York, primarily in video, performance, sound, and sculpture. She received her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. VLM deploys an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary of repeating gestures like drilling, dousing, or reaching and recursive symbols like circles, holes and spheres as she interrogates the complex relationship between physical and psychic structures. VLM also works as a professional mind-map scribe, a Graphic Facilitator. Recent exhibitions include VLM: SKY LOOP, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2020); SCREENS SERIES: VLM, New Museum, NY (2019); HONEY MOON, Times Square Arts, NY (2019); PONY COCOON, False Flag, NY (2019); Socrates Annual, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY (2018); CRASH TEST, La Panacée, Montpellier, France (2018); An unbound knot in the wind, CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, NY (2018); Material Deviance, SculptureCenter, NY (2017); Particle Accelerator Memorial Project, Yale University, CT (2015).
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Virginia Lee Montgomery
Dream Cocoon October 22 - November 21, 2020Hesse Flatow is pleased to present Virginia Lee Montgomery's DREAM COCOON, a multi-media exploration of metaphysical feminist panpsychicism through sculpture, performance, and film. Virginia Lee Montgomery (VLM) exhibits a series of marble ponytail sculptures, made after ambiguously erotic shapes of primordial protozoa, and a dream-logica film: BUTTERFLY BIRTH BED. During...Read more -
Proposition
Maria Antelman, Carver Audain, Karen Azoulay, Nathaniel deLarge, Ben Hagari, Hugh Hayden + Zachary Heinzerling, Meredith James, Jonah King, Bahareh Khoshooee, Molly Lowe, Asif Mian, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Robert Sandler + Jessica Wilson, Theodore Sefcik December 12, 2019 - January 11, 2020curated by Jesse Greenberg Maria Antelman, Carver Audain, Karen Azoulay, Nathaniel deLarge, Ben Hagari, Hugh Hayden + Zachary Heinzerling, Meredith James, Jonah King, Bahareh Khoshooee, Molly Lowe, Asif Mian, Virginia Lee Montgomery, Robert Sandler + Jessica Wilson, Theodore Sefcik, Jessie Stead, Alina Tenser, and Siebren Versteeg Hesse Flatow announces Proposition,...Read more -
Open Mind
Selvia Apparicio and Virginia Lee Montgomery @CRUSH CURATORIAL April 19 - May 19, 2019CRUSHCURATORIAL is pleased to present OPEN MIND, a two person conceptual video-art and sculpture show about memory, materiality, death, and dreams. Selva Aparicio and Virginia Lee Montgomery present new artworks made across Spain, Texas, dream-worlds, real-worlds, anatomy morgues, and corporate convention hotel rooms. Conceived from a text Virginia Lee Montgomery...Read more
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The eye can see things the arm cannot reach
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This Exhibit About Witch Hunting Is Not About Donald Trump (But It’s Still Politically Spellbinding)
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A New Empathetic Lens: Virginia Lee Montgomery by Martha Tuttle
Martha Tuttle, BOMB Magazine, November 16, 2020 -
Artists Shed Light on the History of Witch Hunts and How Fear Spreads Through Communities in a New Show in Denmark
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VLM Interview with Yale Radio WYBC
Brainard Carey, Praxis Interview Magazine, WYBC Yale Radio, July 2, 2020 -
A Chat with the Business Witch
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Artist Finds the Zen of Hurricane Harvey
Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, February 6, 2020
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VLM Acquisition by Blanton Museum of Art
VLM's Short Film "Pony Cocoon" acquired by the Blanton Museum of Art April 7, 2021We are delighted to announce the recent acquistion of Virginia Lee Montgomery's short film Pony Cocoon by the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas....Read more -
Explore After Carolee: Tender and Fierce in 3D
VLM's video Pony Cocoon at ArtPace Museum, San Antonio January 26, 2021The ArtPace Museum has posted a 3D virtual tour of the exhibition, After Carolee , on their website. It uses a special 3D photography-mapping software...Read more -
VLM at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Curated by Alison Karasyk and Jeppe Ugelvig November 5, 2020Virginia Lee Montgomery, one of the 17 participating artists in the exhibition, presents her video, 'water witching' and an installation of her stone-on-memory-foam sculpture. VLM...Read more