Artist Bio

Having left a successful career on Wall Street to pursue her vocation as an artist, Virginia Dutton lives and works in New York, New York. Virginia’s uncanny aptitude for sensing, focusing, and expressing energy in color and texture are at the heart of her gift for painting. Her ability to express herself through different and unusual media creates art in which energy takes chromatic, solid form.

Her works of art have been presented and sold on 1stdibs.com, Housing Works Design Gala benefit events, Regis High School silent auction, Marjorie’s Fund Gala silent auctions, CATM Chelsea gallery’s Art Live, the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Arlene Angard’s Upper East Side Gallery, Spring Market Art X Design at the DDB, the Historical Design NYC and The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). A painting, Intellectual Intelligence of Helen Keller is to be auctioned at the opening of a Helen Keller documentary this fall.

Artist Statement

Within my artistic practice, the colors of energy that course though all aspects of life reveal themselves to me in a visual design. It’s this energy that paints the picture. Through observation and surrender the colors are transferred onto canvas, paper, wood or glass; I merely get out of the way.

My work is abstract, but not by intention. I portray essence as energy, so it reads as abstract. But to me, it’s very figurative. The tensions between real energy and abstraction, flowing acrylic paint, allow me to create a rich, complex artwork.