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Virginia Dains
Auburn, CA
(530) 888-9180
Virginia Dains
Virginia Dains focuses on sculptural ceramics and tile with themes from nature. She has led hands-on-clay public workshops building community through art. Her works include a community-built ceramic tile sign, a garden screen with river-rock theme, a meandering walkway of foothill birds, river pebble and shard wall mosaic, ceramic and stone garden tables, and the Placer Nature Center's "Giving Tree" wall sculpture. Virginia's rural studio in Auburn's "lower west side" is open for visits by request throughout the year.
Styles: Ceramics, Clay, Mosaic, Muralist, Public Art, Sculpture, Stone
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Giving Tree Wall Sculpture
Giving Tree Wall Sculpture
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A collaborative wall sculpture for the Placer Nature Center, 9 feet by 15 feet, 3 demensional ceramic tile and sculpture, wrought iron vine
Overlook Park Sign
Overlook Park Sign
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A community-built project consisting of over 700 public made fish tiles to form the background mosaic for US Bureau of Reclamation and ARD
Loomis Basin Chamber of Commerce Sign
Loomis Basin Chamber of Commerce Sign
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An Public Art Workshop Piece produced at the 2007 Loomis Eggplant Festival with public-made clay eggplants and message ribbons telling "Why I Love Loomis!"
Bob's Garden Chair
Landscape Screen
Red Shouldered Hawk
Red Shouldered Hawk
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Part of a mosaic "bird walk" installed at my studio
Candygram
Candygram
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King Frog
King Frog
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A "Sitting Pretty" landscape frog sculpture out of tile and ferrocement. Collaborative Work with Michelle Mahan.
Hawaiian Petroglyphs
Hawaiian Petroglyphs
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Tempored glass mosaic over traditional hawaiian petroglyph images, each 2 ft X 2 ft
Ruth's Table
Ruth's Table
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Detail of 30" round glass mosaic Poppy table, commissioned piece.
Portrait of the Artist at Work
Portrait of the Artist at Work
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Shaking up glaze for the Nature Center's Giving Tree Sculpture. Most of my tile work is once-fired. Eleven months out of the year, the upstairs of my "Wreck Hall" is a workshop.
Firehouse Dog Totem
Firehouse Dog Totem
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A Poor little kitty stranded atop the Cat's famous BASTET building will be saved by the Firehouse Dogs! A fun and colorful tribute to Roseville's historic firehouse.
RiverWall
RiverWall
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A piqueassiete mosaic mural 3 ft by 30 ft long showing the geomorphlogy of the Green River in Utah and a little bit of fun.
River Wall
Candy's Table
Candy's Table
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A cuerda seca stye tile table top with a bounty of California wildflowers in spring (1 foot sq tile).
Celtic Stool
Celtic Stool
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Three legged concrete stool with mosaic celtic knot design
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Previous Public Art Projects Yes Public, Private or Both Cooperative in-kind funding from Auburn Recreation and Parks Department and the US Bureau of Reclamation, othe funding from private donations. Artist Statement Public art should be designed for a specific site and provide the viewer with a sense of the history or current vibrancy of that place. I love public art that can not be consumed in a single view, pieces that have hidden views or messages that are revealed over time and many return visits. I love art that is part of landscapes that can be touched, sat on, stood on or walked through. Public Art Media Ceramics, ferrocement, tile, stone sculptural 3-dimensional work Previous Projects The American River Canyon Overlook sign-- 720 community built fish tiles mosaic installed on Pacific Avenue in Auburn Educational Background High School Art Scholarship, Fair Oaks, CA |
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