Virginia Lee Montgomery

Virginia Lee Montgomery's subject matter ranges from metaphysics to latent autobiography, often incorporating a feminist impulse. While conceptual, VLM’s artwork is hand-built: made with everyday objects & simple tools. Intimate & surreal, repeating gestures such as drilling, dousing, or reaching, & recursive symbols such as circles, holes, & spheres figure prominently. The artistic practice of VLM bears the influence of her career as a Graphic Recorder: akin to a simultaneous translator, she diagrams - in real-time - the conceptual content of talks delivered at conferences across the country. This professional experience informs her artwork: turning her gaze inward, VLM gives physical form to the cognitive topography of her conscious experience.

Virginia Lee Montgomery is a current 2018–2019 Socrates Fellow at Socrates Park, NY, and a 2019 member of CRITGROUP at The Contemporary Austin. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: “HONEY MOON,” Midnight Moment, Times Square Arts, NY (2019); “PONY COCOON,” False Flag, NY (2019); “The 2018–2019 Socrates Annual,” Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; “CRASH TEST: The Molecular Turn,” La Panacée-MoCo, Montpellier, France (2018); “An unbound knot in the wind,” CSS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, NY (2018); “OPEN MIND: Selva Aparicio and VLM,” CRUSHCuratorial, NY (2018); “Material Deviance,” SculptureCenter, NY (2017); and “The Particle Accelerator Memorial Project,” Wright Laboratory, Physics Department, Yale University, CT (2015). She has been awarded residencies at The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, Wright Laboratory, Coast Time, The Shandaken Project at Storm King, and The Vermont Studio Center. VLM was the recipient of Yale University’s Susan H. Wedon Award (2016) and was a nominee in sculpture for the Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship (2016).

Courtesy of FALSE FLAG