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Art In Embassies Program: Paris, France
February 1, 2023
Somerville Manning Gallery contributes to curation of AIE program in Paris, France
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Exhibited Artists in TV & Film
March 11, 2022
Artists who have exhibited with Somerville Manning Gallery have appeared in a number of movies and television shows. Here are some examples!
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Vicki Vinton Reinvents Herself (Again)
January 13, 2021
The Hunt Magazine Winter 2020
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Vicki Vinton in JunXion Magazine
December 12, 2018
JunXion Magazine - A Month with an Artist
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Vicki Vinton is an American painter and sculptor living and working in rural Pennsylvania.
Vinton began her undergraduate work at the University of Denver where she majored in art and philosophy. She continued her studies at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, studying the figure with Bruce Samuelson and color theory with Murray Dessner. In 1985, she was selected as one of the first residents of The Vermont Studio School.
Her creative journey continued at Longwood Gardens where she studied ornamental horticulture and design. Then, after a seven-year career in landscape design and installation, Vinton began a process of re-inventing herself. She enrolled in The Finishing School to study applied arts with Ina Brosseau Marx before entering a twenty-year career in the Faux Finishing Industry. As a Master Decorative Painter, her work can be found in many remarkable homes and businesses on the East coast, and internationally.
Vinton has now returned to the studio. Her paintings manifest energetic surfaces, a skillful use of color and an earthy curiosity. The unique quality of her work blends a knowledge of art history and the fine arts with a vast array of technical skills learned from the applied arts. The finished piece is always a record of process and discovery arising from measured deliberation, reaction, spontaneity, and chance.
Vinton remains an active gardener and planter of trees.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Metaphors, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2016 Line and Mass, Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2015 Shades of Grey, Bookplace, Oxford, PA
2013 Recent Paintings, Bookplace, Oxford, PA
2013 To Flow or Not To Flow, Project Space, Wilmington, DE
2012 Recent Paintings, Bookplace, Oxford, PA
2011 What Lies Beneath, Bookplace, Oxford, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 The Figure: The Indicative and the Allusive, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2018 Abstractions, Scarlett Thicket, Unionville, PA
2017 Under the Influence: Contemporary Artists and the Masters Who Inspire Them, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2016 Abstractions, Scarlett Thicket, Unionville, PA
2014 Lancaster County Art Association National Juried Show, Lancaster, PA
2014 Under the Influence: Contemporary Artists and the Masters Who Inspire Them, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2013 Breath, Chris White Gallery, Wilmington, DE
2012 Abstractions, Scarlett Thicket, Unionville, PA
2011 Oxford Art Alliance Juried Show, Oxford, PA
Awards
2011 Oxford Art Alliance Juried Show, First Place
Education
1989 – 2011 The Finishing School, New York, NY
1985 – 87 Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA
1984 Vermont Studio School, Johnson, VT
1983 – 85 Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1977 – 81 BA, Fine Art and Philosophy, University of Denver, Denver, CO
