Victoria Selbach

Stardust Study
Mixed Media on Postcard Paper
6x4 Inches

Victoria Selbach is a contemporary artist focusing on women. She explores the layers of complexity in individuals and examines our shared generational feminine legacy. Each of Selbach’s works contribute a link in her quest to understand ‘who we are and how we arrived where we find ourselves today’. Victoria Selbach was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania surrounded by makers who used their hands to shape and color their world. This infused her early understanding of her ability to communicate through making. Selbach had the benefit of a childhood arts education at Carnegie Mellon Museum of Art and Carnegie Mellon University. From there she dove into the creative currents of New York City, graduated from Parsons School of Design and was a long time resident of New York. Selbach recently moved her studio to rural Connecticut. Victoria Selbach is best known for her life-size painted depictions of contemporary women. Selbach has exhibited in galleries, museums and collections internationally including the Heckscher Museum of Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art and the MEAM museum in Barcelona. The Huffington Post reviewed Selbach’s work in an article by Priscilla Frank, ‘Finally, Artist Paints Female Nudes As They Really Are’ and Selbach discussed her work with Nicole Gordon in a 2018 interview for Beautiful Bizarre magazine, ‘Victoria Selbach: Painting With Emotional Layers’. Selbach, as a writer and curator, is a strong advocate for women artists. Her contributions to PoetsArtists magazine include a cover story on Elizabeth A Sackler , a series of interviews with art world 'Trailblazers and Mavericks’, and the curation of the blockbuster exhibition ‘The Artists Gaze; Seeing Women in the 21st Century’.

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