Vine and Pinecone
Virginia Baich
Created : 1995
Donated : 2003
Medium : Mixed media/two-dimensional
Dimensions: 15 inx24 in
Located: 2nd Floor,North Hallway
Virginia Baich’s encaustic paintings are created by layering textured prints, oil paint and wax, and are inspired by nature. They often incorporate fragments and elements from the landscape, including waves, twisting vines, organic glyphs, calligraphic mountains and patterns of dotted stars.
Many of her paintings contain actual particles of nature, such as a feather, a leaf, a piece of bark or a pinecone. Dense and visceral surfaces result, alluding to the earth’s stratification and the constant, evolving change and passage of time in the natural world. Baich’s abstracted landscapes are not meant to suggest a specific place or site, but rather hint at a state a mind or a transitory condition in nature. Baich has a Masters of Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles and has taught art at the University of New Mexico and New Mexico Central University, both in Albuquerque.
It continues to be the mission of the Capitol Art Foundation to build a permanent collection of New Mexico masterworks that are representative of New Mexico’s rich and diverse cultural, historical and artistic traditions.
