ARTIST STATEMENT: As an artist, I claim two distinct – yet interconnected – bodies of work. My figurative representations of nature coexist beside object-based artwork, with the two separate bodies of work intended as complementary rather than competitive. Each informs the other, illuminating the universal experience of life on earth. Environmental themes in my object-based sculpture play out on a subtle level while my nature-based work aims for more literal interpretation of the world around us. Man-made designs are manipulated to reflect organic origins, such as clustered doorknobs resembling a virus or star-shaped safety cones re-appropriated in likeness of spiked seedpods or diatoms. Simultaneously, direct depictions of Flora and Fauna, whether
in the context of earth and grass or among human-implemented industrial piping and cigarette butts, allow me to further explore systems impacted by man’s activity.

BIOGRAPHY: Victoria Fuller is a Chicago sculptor, painter, and natural science illustrator. Her educational background includes studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, Parson’s Paris Program in Paris, France, and a graduate degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Fuller has been honored with fellowships from the Colorado Council for the Arts and Humanities and the Illinois Arts Council with appearances in galleries, museums, and public spaces Internationally. She has been awarded commissioned projects from private and community organizations such as Disney’s ESPN Zone, St. Louis’ Arts in Transit, and Seattle’s Sound Transit where she recently completed her 35’ bronze sculpture, Global Garden Shovel. Fuller is best known for Shoe of Shoes, a large-scale shoe-shaped sculpture comprised of thousands of aluminum high-heels in front of Brown Shoe Company, and for her large scale sculpture, Canoe Fan, made from canoes forming a fan shape.