Virginia Huber

medium: painting

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Dolly at Bat 2009 Painting	Jump-starting the Economy 2009 Painting	Upright 2008 Painting
Living for Winter-145 (Ongoing series) 2008 Painting	Living for Winter-Seventeen (Ongoing series) 2008 Painting	Living for Winter-Eight (Ongoing series) 2008 Painting
Living for Winter-Eighteen (Ongoing series) 2008 Painting	Ogling Habit (Ongoing series) 2008 Painting	Ogled-One (Ongoing series) 2008 Painting
Ogled-Six (Ongoing series) 2008 Painting

Contact information
4009 Mandan Crescent
Madison, WI 53711
Phone Number: 608-238-8880
Email Address: virginia@virginiahuber.com
Web site: www.virginiahuber.com

Artist statement
The underlying motivation of most of my drawings/paintings/collage pieces is a fascination with people. What interests me about people is how they are spending their time here on earth. Where are they putting their energies? Who and what do they care about? I like to make up stories and poems about these people.

I don't want people who haven't given their approval to see themselves portrayed publicly, and so I change identifying characteristics. The people who inspired these paintings were older, younger, taller, shorter, the opposite sex, etc.

I carry little pieces of paper, a pen and some magic tape in my purse. From time to time I stop what I'm doing during my day and make a sketch/collage. When it's time to clean out my purse, I put the sketches in one of many notebooks full of sketches. Some of these sketches serve as starting points for paintings.

I build paintings without the aid or confinement of structural lines. Paintings evolve in a way that is similar to eastern calligraphy. Like a zenga artist, I balance shape, brush strokes and clear paper, but add color interactions to the tale.

Biography
Watercolor painter/teacher Virginia Huber was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Since 1964, with only brief sabbaticals, she has lived and worked in Madison, Wis. Mrs. Huber taught continuing education art classes for Univ. of Wisconsin-Outreach Division for many years and then founded a one-woman art school for adult students, Huber School, in 1995.

Virginia Huber's art focuses on people--watercolor poems about people, their interactions with others, their quiet alone time, and how they fill their days here on earth. Aesthetically, Mrs. Huber paints in a gestural style, without aid or confinement of underlying pencil structure. Mrs. Huber's art is represented in hundreds of private and public collections worldwide.