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Midnight Paintings
Soul.of.Artists.
Prize awarded in the 2024 Spring Soul of Artists Online International Exhibit
Color Pop!
San Francisco Women Artists
April 4 to 28, 2023
Water-Marin Society of Artists
https://shows14.wixsite.com/mysite/water-2023
Online Fine Art Exhibition: Marin Society of Artists
Juror: Kim-Eagles-Smith, Director of Kim-Eagles Smith Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
January 30-March 31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWX0uOOuhbo
Viridian Artists Gallery
I'm pleased to receive Honorable Mention in Viridian Artists Gallery's 32nd Annual International Juried Exhibition, January 3-28th.
Heather Ferrell, Juror. 527 West 27th St, New York, NY. 10001
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/node/11225047
12:12 Approaching Light
The subject of Virginia Sharkey’s vivid abstract acrylic paintings is time; the presentation specifically of a series of tone poems to noon and midnight conveying the energy and feeling of these opposite 12’s. The subjects are mystery, radiance, surprise and the search for perfection. On the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death, a re-reading of the Divine Comedy with his three stages of the soul’s progress towards heaven in ascending light inspired Commedia.
''Red'' An Online Exhibition. Jen Tough, Juror. O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA. July 12-Sept 14., 2022. https://www.ohanloncenter.org/2022/07/red-2022/
Red/Yellow/Blue. Northern California Museum of Art, Chico, CA. June 16-August 21, 2022
The Indivisible Spectrum
The Indivisible Spectrum
The Painting Center
547 West 27th St
New York, NY 10001
February 1-26, 2022
Artists of the Bay Area, Volume 2. Jen Tough Gallery. 2022.
PAINTING 2011-2021
SITE: BROOKLYN GALLERY
Online Exhibition September 15 - October 13, 2021
https://www.sitebrooklyn.com/painting-2011-2021
Art over Time, National Juried Exhibit, Charlotta Kotik, Juror, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
July 10 -August 15
Black/White and Shades of Gray, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA
June 19 to July 25
ConVERGEnce
National Summer Exhibition, Juried by Susan Synder, Synder-Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
May 29-July 18
Visual Metaphors
Three Person show November from Partners Gallery
https://www.partnersgallery.com/online-exhibits/visual-metaphors-3
From the Ashes
2020 March 5th - March 29, 2020
From the Ashes, Partners Gallery, Artists’ responses to the recent Northern California fires.
Opening Reception - First Friday, March 6th , 5pm - 8pm,
Curated by Virginia Sharkey
Artists include:
Peter Armstong, Ally Brooker, Terry Church, Nori Dolan, Rose Easterbrook, Laura Fogg, Charlottel Healy, Mary, Neuer Lee, Loren Madsen, Mary Monroe, Jaye Moscariello, Purin Phanichiphant
Time Trapped
2019
Time Trapped one person show, September 5-30, 2019, Partners Gallery, Ft Bragg, CA
In September Virginia Sharkey is showing seven large acrylic paintings reflecting her continuing exploration on the subject of time. The artist begins with a feeling tone manifested by color, augmented by the ingredients of space, gravity and energy which when combined produce their own kind of resonance––harmonious or not–– but with a result that is evocative and mysterious.
Celebrating the National Lands of California
July 20, 2019 – January 19, 2020
The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature
Solvang, CA
The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature is pleased to share its second juried exhibition – Celebrating the National Lands of California – a showcase of fine art inspired by National Parks, Monuments, Preserves, and Recreation Areas located within the state of California.
Color Works
2018
August 4, 2018 - September 16, 2018
Color Works, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art
Borders and Boundaries
2018
February 1 - 26, 2018
In February, Partners Gallery artists are exploring notions of borders and boundaries: how they separate, define, categorize, frame, exclude, protect or connect.
From the Sublime to the Canine
2017
September 26 - October 29, 2017
Mendocino Art Center
Time Traps: Poetry into Painting - Virginia Sharkey
2017
July 6 to July 31
Partners Gallery, Ft. Bragg, CA
Time Traps: Poetry into Painting consists of the days of the week series Sharkey painted as part of her on-going investigation into the pictorial depiction of time. Inspired by medieval books of the hours, the paintings were first conceived through writing poems, included in this exhibit, which were then translated into the highly saturated color fields of these seven sensual large-scale abstract paintings.
The Bellinger Prize
2016
Chautauqua 59th Annual Exhibition
of Contemporary Art
Chautauqua, New York