Virginia Overton (b. 1971, Nashville, Tennessee, US) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, US. Overton makes site-responsive installations and sculptures using quotidian materials common in manual trades, as well as those she collects from exhibition sites and storage units. Arranged into phenomenological configurations-bended, poured, balanced and ratcheted into the final forms retain a roughness and rigour evocative of the material’s origin while simultaneously illustrating the levity and grace of the artist’s hand. Through intuitive and repetitive re-purposing of objects, Overton orchestrates a dynamic dialogue between sculpture and the contextual and physical space it occupies.
Overton’s work is included in several public collections such as Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Tennessee, US; Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona, US; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US; San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, US; Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Stiftung Gegenw ART, Bern, Switzerland; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US; and Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom.
