First New Sculpture in 70 Years for Philly’s 30th Street Station
WHYY Philadelphia The last time 30th Street train station in Philadelphia got a new public sculpture was in 1952, when Walker Hancock’s...
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Tom Smyth
- 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...