Victoria Fuller
American glamour model and artist
| Date of Birth | : | 07 Oct, 1993 |
| Date of Death | : | 26 Jun, 1885 |
| Place of Birth | : | California United States |
| Profession | : | Artist, Glamour Model |
| Nationality | : | American |
Victoria Fuller is an American artist, sculptor, natural science illustrator, and award-winning singer, songwriter, and musician.
Early life and education
Fuller was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and grew up on a farm and equestrian center in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania. She attended grade school at Moravian Preparatory School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and graduated high school from Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. She attended college at University of Denver, and then moved to Aspen, Colorado, where she received a BA degree through the UWW program at Regis University in Denver, Colorado while continuing to live in Aspen. Fuller met and married fellow-artist Jack Bowers in Aspen in 1977 and divorced in 1980. While living in Aspen, Fuller studied at Anderson Ranch Art Center, and in 1983 was a "resident painting program recipient" and through the years has participated in workshops with Jim Dine, Terry Allen, Red Grooms, Roger Brown, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Lucas Johnson, James Surls, Alexis Rockman, and was an assistant to visiting artist Deborah Butterfield assembling a horse sculpture from scavenged wood in 1985. In the 1980s, Fuller also attended the Parsons Paris program in Paris. While working towards her undergraduate degree, Fuller attended the San Francisco Art Institute for two semesters in 1980. In 1984, Fuller moved to New York City and had a show of her work at Westbroadway Gallery, and was in subsequent shows at M-13 and White Columns. She rented an art studio space in the Tribeca neighborhood. During this time Fuller exchanged apartments for one year with auto racing legend Janet Guthrie, who lived in Fuller's apartment in Aspen, hile writing her autobiography, and Fuller lived in hers while pursuing her career in New York. Fuller moved to Chicago in 1992 to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois, and received an MFA degree in 1994. Graduate advisors were artists Michiko Itatani, as well as Chicago Imagists Jim Nutt and Barbara Rossi.
Career
Fuller works in a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, and installation art. Her work during the 1980s shows a tendency towards pop cartoon-like imagery on shaped canvas, later incorporating appropriated objects. Her work from 1990 to 2010 involves the usage of industrial fabricated materials and geometric forms while combining common everyday objects. The work recalls 1960's minimalism and borrows from the spirit of 1960's pop art and 20th century surrealism. Pop artists such as Claus Oldenburg are acknowledged influences. Fuller's work finds inspiration from natural and man-made forms, and is often concerned with finding the correlations between the two, while addressing issues of social concepts, popular culture, and perception. According to Lanny Silverman, Curator of Exhibitions Chicago Cultural Center Department of Cultural Affairs, "Fuller utilizes manufactured components that are part and parcel of the modern industrial age and reveals a facet of our consumer culture. Fuller's strategy is to liberate these objects from their everyday functions by combining them in whacky configurations that tease us with some sense of use. Amongst her body of work is the large-scale public sculpture, "Shoe of Shoes", in St. Louis, Missouri, a large high-heeled woman's shoe made from approximately 2,000 cast aluminum shoes, and her 35-foot tall Bronze sculpture, "Global Garden Shovel", in Seattle, Washington.
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