virginia katz

This painting installation began seven years ago and is based upon my experience with my local landscape in suburban Southern California. The work primarily focuses on the natural activity I observe in my studio’s parking lot.

Nature’s form is a basis for language and meaning. The entangled vines in the hedge fence bordering the lot, in my mind, became a metaphor for the interchange between nature and humanity and landscape painting. This interchange opens an interior world derived from actual landscapes into expanses of our understanding.

Through various forms of painting, I recreate the space in the studio with expansive 2d paintings and paint-sculpted, high-relief facsimiles that mimic nature’s form.

Through performative Interventions, I incorporate the sculptural paintings into the landscape in which the landscape itself and the landscape paintings become fully immersed and indistinguishable – blurring reality and illusion.