VLM (Virginia L. Montgomery)
January 17 - February 27
Multimedia
Open Studio Thursday, Fridays 1pm - 4pm at The LINE Austin 2nd floor
End of Residency event, February 24, 7-10pm
VLM (Virginia L. Montgomery) is a multimedia artist whose projects reveal everyday magic in the world around us. She received her BFA from The University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture in 2016. Working across video, performance, sound, and sculpture, her artwork explores atomic consciousness from a metaphysical feminist POV. Her artwork is surreal, sensorial, and symbolic. It blends together mysticism, science, and autobiography. It also shifts in subject matter from ponytails to particle accelerators, to syrups, stones, moths and machines as VLM deploys an idiosyncratic visual vocabulary of repeating gestures like drilling, dousing, or reaching and recursive symbols like circles, holes, and spheres.
VLM’s diverse artistic movements interrogate the complex relationship between physical and psychic structures via gestures of agency and empathy. VLM also works outside the "art world" as a visual ideation scribe, a unique career for which she travels the country to diagram the development of ideas at group meetings like DEI summits, TED talks, innovation events, and corporate conferences. In her work as a fine artist, VLM turns this professional skill set, which she describes as “mind map scribing,” inwards, to render the contours of her own subconscious and the logic of her own dreams. Collectively, VLM's symbols, forms, and gestures rupture material surfaces, opening up portals to unknown psychic ends and generating connections for consciousness.
