Virginia Gibson

Virginia Gibson (she/they) is based in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2022 with a Bachelors in Studio Art and Archaeology. She creates works that are vessels meant to express behavioral adaptations that derive from the survival instinct to make sense of the complexities of the world. Virginia pulls from lived experiences that hold conversations around trauma. Through her creative practice, she brings to light the fundamental changes in both the body and mind as a means to understand points of suffering. She use methods in printmaking, painting, and sculpture to sculptural vessels and internal images. These practices are used as ways to acknowledge the reality of the body and mind post traumatic. The different visceral dimensions of the body, and the stunted existence of the imagination in the mind, are keys to unlocking a potentiality of healing and taking charge of one’s life and health. She uses intuitive forms and cultivated environments in order to communicate feelings, emotions, physical apparitions, and the general hard to convey ecology of her everyday life. Virginia explores a personal inner psychology that stems from my own hardships and the processing of said events and the post traumatic experiences thereafter. Not only is it a means to understand the inner ecology of being, but how this then extends and interacts with the greater outside world.