Open Studios are a big event here. Each weekend for the next 4 weeks artist’s studios in different neighborhoods are open and there’s a lot of citywide publicity. My work will be shown on November 1st and 2nd at Alley Cat Bookstore Gallery in the Mission. I just finished this piece which will be among several I am exhibiting. I wish you all could join me!
Last Call, oil on canvas, 20″x20″
This piece is in a group show this month at Collector in Berkeley along with 4 earlier works. Perhaps this piece is influenced by the West, but there is so much to absorb I think it will be a while before my art reflects what I see and feel in this new environment.
Sudden Sky – oil on canvas 16″x20″
I’ve landed on my feet in San Francisco in a quiet neighborhood called Bernal Heights. Wonderful little houses, nice people, hilltop views, lots of light – and a short drive to the ocean. 
My paintings will be in a group show this summer at Collector Art, a gallery in Berkeley, where they currently feature my art cards. A bookstore down the street from me is also selling my cards. I’m looking forward to printing another card series and spending time in my studio inspired by this new environment.
The process of moving 3000 miles to an entirely new city and set of circumstances is quite a ‘production.’ Many things still in process, including me! – Virginia
Seagulls Taking Flight – California Coast, photo by VG 2008
A northeast coast – I look forward to sharing my Pacific and west coast impressions soon.
November at the Shore – 20″x20″ oil on canvas
Passing 15″x22″ monoprint on paper
Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
and bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?
Robert Frost, “Reluctance”
Passing 15″x22″ monoprint on paper
More paintings on my website: VirginiaGiordano.com
Regatta – 11″x14″ monoprint
A monoprint is an image painted on a plate and printed from the plate. One or sometimes two prints are made from the plate. I’m really enjoying creating art using this technique new to me. I have posted some monoprints on my website: VirginiaGiordano.com > paintings > monoprints.
This piece has been selected for a juried show sponsored by the Art Students League of New York: Summer! Exhibition 2013.
Please join me on Wednesday, July 17th from 5 to 7 pm for the Artist Reception.
Manhattan Borough President’s Offices
1 Centre Street, 19th FL New York City
Dates: July 17, 2013 to August 23, 2013
Artist Reception: July 17th from 5 to 7pm
Horizon – 18″x18″ oil on canvas
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” Leonardo da Vinci
This image is available as a notecard in my art card series. Visit my website for more info: VirginiaGiordano.com
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Stratosphere — 16″x24″ mixed media on board
Changing perspective: we see the world as we see ourselves – a continuing spectrum fracturing and coalescing in unexpected ways – a fluid and dynamic process of self-reflection.
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Virginia Giordano Art 