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<span class="text"><font color="#ffffff" class="text"> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Biography</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><br /> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">I was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. My parents had envisioned a future in business for me but my heart envisioned a future in art. My love affair with the stark simplicity of black and white probably originated with the attire of my early education teachers: nuns. Their black and white habit was a stunning visual, especially when they stormed down the aisle, their veil and the skirts swishing, to take some kind of action in the back of the room. The sheer beauty of black and white was imprinted on my artistic soul. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><br /> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Over the years I have studied art in different forms and mediums. Graphic design at RISD, painting in Connecticut at the New Haven College of Arts & Crafts, and printmaking in Oregon at Marylhurst University. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><br /> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">Printmaking in general, and linocuts in particular, brought me back to my affinity for black and white. On my own, and without a press, I turned to cutting black paper and mounting it on a white background to achieve the stark, crisp look that I love. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><br /> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">My accomplishments include illustrations in publications, newspapers, literary magazines, cd cover art, brochures and corporate identity signage. My work has been shown at Maryhill Museum, L&B Gallery, Oswego Lake Gallery and the American Institute of Architects Gallery. In 2005 the publication <span style="text-decoration: underline; ">Women in the Arts</span> listed me as a “woman to watch” in the Pacific Northwest Arts. </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman; min-height: 15.0px"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; "><br /> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; ">I am excited to have been commissioned to execute four large metal panels for a public art project in the Pearl District of northwest Portland. They were recently installed on the Downtown Self Storage Building on the corner of NW 14<sup>th</sup> & Davis. I created four papercuts that were scanned and digitized in preparation for the water jet process by the metal fabricator. It was during this process that Oregon Public Broadcasting interviewed and filmed me at work for their Oregon Art Beat program. The segment aired October 23, 2008.</span></p> </span></p></font></span><br> <h1> Virginia Flynn Biography</h1>
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