Bio:
Rebecca Visger is an emerging artist from Manassas, Virginia specializing in painting and mixed media works. She has a bachelors in Studio Arts and has shown her works in exhibitions across Virginia and online. Her works are an act of expression when words fail to be enough, and thus tend to be dramatic, intense, and emotional, straddling the line between realism and fantasy in bold, saturated color. Her pieces have ranged in size from the top of a bottle cap to a 6 foot india ink painting, and her techniques and subjects are equally as wide-ranging and experimental.
Artist Statement:
My pieces depict a reality dictated by emotion and perceptions; where the abstract processes of the mind have full influence over the physical world without restriction or permission. The purpose of my work is to convey intense emotions that are difficult, repressed, or even inappropriate to express in their full fervor, but nevertheless influence our actions and experience of the world around us. To capture that intensity l favor an unsubtle approach through vivid, unnatural color schemes, high contrast, and rough, three-dimensional textures to capture realer than reality. Each piece begins in realism and photo reference, but the specifics of reality are carefully warped and discarded to serve the emotional core of the piece.
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EDUCATION
2022 BA Studio Art, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
Awards
2023 Second Place, Small Works, ART works, Richmond, Va
2023 The Suzanne Hill Scholarship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts,Gatlinburg, TN
2023 Honorable Mention, Artist Choice, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, Va
2023 Honorable mention, The Art of the Drink, Liberty Town Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA
2023 First Place, Recycle Art, ART works, Richmond, VA
2023 Third Place, All Media Show, ART works, Richmond, VA
2022 Honorable Mention, Artist Choice, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg,
2022 Honorable Mention, Start With Green, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg,
VA
2021 First Place, Light and Reflection, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2020 Peter’s Valley School of Craft Scholarship, Layton, NJ
Exhibitions
2023 Small Works, ART works, Richmond, VA
2023 Wonder Years, ART works, Richmond, VA
2023 Winter Blues, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2023 Shapes and Sizes, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2023 Luminous, Falls Church Arts Gallery, Falls Church, VA
2023 Viewpoints, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2023 Fall Flair, Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens , Richmond, VA
2023 Touch of Red, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2023 Artist’s Choice, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2023 All Media Show, ART works, Richmond, VA
2023 The Art of the Drink, Liberty Town Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA
2023 Recycle Art, ART works, Richmond, VA
2023 Artist’s Choice, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2023 All Media Show, ART works, Richmond, VA
2023 Faces and Figures, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2023 Manassas Banner Art 2023, Public Art Olde Town Manassas, Manassas, VA
2023 40 under 40, Shenandoah Valley Art Center,Waynesboro, VA
2023 All That I Adore, Liberty Town Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA
2022 Cold of Winter, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2022 Small Works 2022, ART works, Richmond, VA
2022 The Mix, ART works, Richmond, VA
2022 Dark Art, ART works, Richmond, VA
2022 Artist’s Choice, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2022 ‘Scapes, Falls Church Arts Gallery, Falls Church, VA
2022 Artist’s Choice, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2022 Tell Me Your Secret, Liberty Town Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA
2022 Courage in Color, Gallery Underground, Arlington, VA
2022 Collab: Conversations in Art, Falls Church Arts Gallery, Falls Church, VA
2022 Artist’s Choice, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2022 Faces and Figures, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2022 Annual Student Art Exhibition, DuPont Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg,
VA
2022 Studio Art Senior Exhibition, DuPont Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg,
VA
2022 Annual Student Art Exhibition, DuPont Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg,
VA
2022 Feast for the Eyes, Liberty Town Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA
2022 Start With Green, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2021 6x6x6, Liberty Town Arts Workshop, Fredericksburg, VA
2021 Light and Reflection, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2021 Annual Student Art Exhibition, DuPont Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg,
VA
2020 Annual Student Art Exhibition, Presented Online, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg,
VA