Victoria Boone's
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Painting - Oil
Painting - Acrylic
Painting - Pastel
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Price Range: $350 - $1,450
Bio
Artist, teacher, currently the director of the Leu Art Gallery at Belmont University, Victoria Boone has admirably used her talents to produce and display her extensive artwork in a multitude of local and regional venues, as well as for private collections throughout the country.
With a master’s degree in museum administration from the University of Oklahoma, following a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Alabama, Boone began her art career more than 30 years ago as a muralist for the 1982 World’s Fair. Today, Boone’s artwork is part of numerous museum collections, including those at the Columbus Museum of Art, the Tennessee State Museum, Mississippi River Museum, National Carvers Museum, and the Knoxville Museum of Art. Her paintings are also held by the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and United Way of Tennessee.
In addition to currently serving as director of the art gallery at Belmont, Boone also teaches drawing courses and a senior capstone course on business in the visual arts there. Over the last 10 years, she has shown her long time affection for teaching by serving as adjunct professor of art at Watkins Institute, Austin Peay State University and Middle Tennessee State University.
In February 2006, she will have a solo exhibition “Non-Alphabetical Systems of Writing� at A Fresh View Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee.
Style
Realistic and abstract symbolism are a new and exciting form of painting in which the artist uses non-alphabetical systems of communication in combination with 21st Century texts and symbols. Collectors love this style because of its transcending power of the here and now over laid with ancient languages. Boone’s paintings are even more valued because of her personal symbols that document passionate love stories.
Artist Statement
I am a semiologist. And, yes, I am neurotic, too. But my love of symbols is far stronger than my neuroses – any of them.
Since my early teens, I have kept my diary in the vocabulary of symbols. I only hoped my Mother would not decipher my secret language! Today, some 35 years later, although I still journal, it is my canvases, rather than the pages of my diary, that are most alive with my symbols and signs. Semiology is not a dogma. Duality is the essential, dynamic contrast that creates the reliable, fresh context transmitting meaning to all those wishing to understanding them.
My examination of historical signs and hieroglyphics creates an evolving language that is a fusion of multiple cultures and different periods of history. By crossing these boundaries, I sometimes become disoriented, even lost. But then, intuitively, a new and greater synthesis is found. My private symbols allow me to question and examine the physical, mental and spiritual interactions and disconnections, in a new way and with a different language.
Like the prehistoric totems on the cave walls by the Cro-Magnon people which functioned as visual communication, or the gematria used by post-Talmudic scholars which gave numerical meanings to words and sentences, it is my hope that my symbols will serve to deconstruct the rigid daily underpinning of order and set the imagination free.
“Anything has the potential to be a symbol� said Boone’s mother, Sylvia Summers Boone, who finds her own meanings in her daughter’s secret language.
Awards
“Fest de Ville: Art Exhibition and Auction�
Second Place, Juror: Budd Bishop
Museum Director of Columbus Museum of Art
Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Nashville, TN 2001
United Way of Tennessee, Iris Award, 2001
Exhibitions
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
“Non-Alphabetical Systems of Writing�
Solo Exhibition at A Fresh View Gallery, Nashville, TN 2006
Symbolic Analogies: Works by KV Boone�
Vanderbilt University, Cunningham Gallery, Nashville, TN 1998
“Semiotic Images: Painting and Photographs by V. Boone�
Morning Star Gallery, Nashville, TN 1995
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