Virginia Maksymowicz: In Print (reviews, articles, catalogues)

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Dec 10, 2019

A Plaster-Cast Vision of America's Train Network

Virginia Maksymowicz’s West Philadelphia studio looks like she just got back from an archaeological dig: two mummy-like body casts lie on...

Structural Transparencies: Phillips Museum of Art

Margo Hobbs

Apr 17, 2018

Structural Transparencies: Phillips Museum of Art

In her series Comparisons (2015-18), Virginia Maksymowicz incorporates images of caryatids and canephorae—columns in the shape of female...

Sarah Archino

Jun 21, 2016

Strong Supports: Sculpture Magazine

From first glance, Virginia Maksymowicz’s "Bread" series clearly recalls antiquity. These works abound in motifs taken from Greco-Roman...

Architectural Overlays and Anatomical Infrastructures: catalogue essay

Mary Coss

Jan 15, 2016

Architectural Overlays and Anatomical Infrastructures: catalogue essay

Virginia Maksymowicz’s work wittingly combines the anatomical with the architectural creating metaphorical and real relationships between...

various authors

Oct 17, 2013

Selections from Recent Reviews

Broad Street Review November 20, 2015 Samantha Maldonado Subversive wisdom: review of "Old Enough to Know Better: at Crane Arts Each of...

Fanfare For Maksymowicz: A Campus Legend in the Shadow of ‘Fallen Star’:
KPBS

Dave Hampton

May 9, 2013

Fanfare For Maksymowicz: A Campus Legend in the Shadow of ‘Fallen Star’: KPBS

A Mysterious Artwork Art lovers who meander along Alexis Smith's "Snake Path" and take in the view of "Fallen Star" are unknowingly...

Stephan Salisbury

Nov 10, 2011

Wall to Wall: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Not so long ago, in a galaxy not very far, far away, there existed a breed apart — feral, solipsistic, arrogant, and rich as Croesus....

The Physical Boundaries of This World:
Sculpture Magazine

Ana Finel Honigman

Mar 1, 2003

The Physical Boundaries of This World: Sculpture Magazine

Virginia Maksymowicz’s installation The Physical Boundaries of This World is a poetic and sobering visual representation of what Hedda...

Yes, Virginia:
catalogue essay for Alternating Figures

Arlene Raven

Mar 1, 2002

Yes, Virginia: catalogue essay for Alternating Figures

Alternating figures are defined in scientific terms, Maksymowicz tells me, as "ambiguous diagrams serving in the psychology of perception...

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