Past Exhibition

Flight Worthy

Virginia Ivanicki
Sep 26, 2013
to
Jan 04, 2014
EXHIBITION
Virginia Ivannicki, Typhoons (detail)

Virginia explores flight concerns as one of mankind’s highest accomplishments.

The Flight Worthy series of WWII fighters and bombers is a tribute to the courageous men, the war pilots and their crews who flew in them. At the same time, she acknowledges the devastation of the times. The buildings that are within the paintings, floating without time or gravitational limits are often chosen for their relevancy, when such building reference can be found, to the particular theatres within which the planes depicted flew and fought. At other times, they are chosen for their simple ironic dichotomy, as in combinations of bombers/fighters and churches/schools, or for their architectural suitability to the style, time and design requirements of the painting itself.

Ivanicki has a vintage sensibility partly as a result of the subject matter and partly as a result of her low key colours and fantastic perspectives. Ivanicki’s textures, colors and bold attitude can be attributed to the artwork she has done in the past for live action film sets, theater sets, retail displays, magazine covers, and as a background color designer for animation. She paints airplanes out of respect – respect for their beauty of design and their large place in history, their symbolism of freedom, boundless highways in the air, a crowning achievement of mankind, the miracle of machinery, the profound gift of flight to flightless beings and generally to vehicles that carry one to new worlds.

Virginia grew up in a family that had flying in its blood. Virginia’s father was an Air Canada mechanic and an Air Force mechanic during the War. Her uncle was a WWII pilot flying out of Britain over Europe. Virginia’s father often took her to see the huge airplanes in the hangers at his work.

Virginia graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design with a Fine Arts degree before moving to Vancouver in 1979. In 2009, she entered and won the Artflight Aviation painting competition at the Canada Aviation Museum in Ottawa. She is a member of the Canadian Aviation Artists Assoc. and a ‘Fellow’ member of the American Society of Aviation Artists.

She has recently realized a life-long dream of earning her private pilots’ license and flies in the surrounding regions for pleasure.

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