STATEMENT
I use textiles, everyday objects, and my own studio archive to create assemblages that feel both abstract and familiar. Some pieces remain intact for months or years while others are quickly swallowed up by the studio and spit back out in new form. I get to know my supplies through a variety of actions, including (but not limited to) ripping, wrapping, drilling, cutting, mounting, stapling, painting, and tying. With each act of transformation, my materials become increasingly self-referential and the work becomes more and more about its history and the sensation of its making. My body has no preconceived notions as to what the materials are or how they should act, creating a liberatory practice of working intuitively, embracing play, and challenging my own conceptions of what’s possible.
bio
Vic Barquin is an artist, printmaker, and arts administrator currently based in Chicago, IL. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and a BFA in Printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art & Design. Her work has been exhibited at ARC Gallery (Chicago, IL), Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (Little Rock, AR), Blah Blah Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Kaleidoscope Collective (Rogers, AR), University of Mississippi (Oxford, MS), and Indiana University Northwest (Gary, IN), among others. She has participated in residencies at the Can Serrat International Art Centre (El Bruc, Catalonia) and The Medium (Springdale, AR) and has been a recipient of the Windgate Accelerator Grant, Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Traveling Fellowship, and was listed as a Semi-Finalist in The Print Center’s 98th ANNUAL International Competition.
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2025 Artists to Watch, organized by Comfort Station
"Prints and Artist-Run Spaces” with Stephanie Graham on noseyAFpodcast
“Collage, Layers, and Repetition: Tracing the Flight of the Mind,” by Catie Dillon for FRC12
Halftone Projects