Quanta
2021
Virginia Jaramillo
Southhampton, New York
Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.
About Virginia Jaramillo
Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939, El Paso, Texas) studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles from 1958 to 1961, and has lived and worked in New York since the late 1960s. Whether creating bold abstract paintings, mixed media sculptural compositions or meticulously formed works on handmade paper, Jaramillo has forged a unique voice, experimenting with material and process to pursue his ongoing explorations of the human perception of reality. Among many previous exhibitions, Jaramillo's work was featured in the successful Tate Modern exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (2017, London), which subsequently traveled to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas; Brooklyn Museum; Broad, Los Angeles; de Young Museum, San Francisco; and The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX (2018-2020). In 2017, Jaramillo exhibited in We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965-85 at the Brooklyn Museum, which traveled to the California African American Museum, Los Angeles; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018). In 2020-21, the Menil Collection (Houston, TX) presented the solo exhibition Virginia Jaramillo: The Curvilinear Paintings, 1969-1974. In 2021, Jaramillo was included in the traveling exhibition Women in Abstraction at the Pompidou Center in Paris (France) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Spain). Her work is part of important private and public collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in AR, the Brooklyn Museum, the Menil Collection and the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, among others. Jaramillo is represented by Hales Gallery and Pace Gallery.
Website Links
Virginia Jaramillo at Hales Gallery
Virginia Jaramillo at Pace Gallery
Program Participation
Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2022
I try to investigate and translate the mental structural patterns that we all superimpose on our worldview.... Throughout my career, which spans six decades, I have sought inspiration for my abstract work from ancient civilizations as well as their myths and geological sites.”
