A New York native, Virginia Salerni grew up in Rockville Center, N.Y. where she had extended art classes through he school years and was privileged to work with many talented teachers. She both worked and showed at Staten Island Museum.

Virginia moved to Sarasota, Fl where she has been inspired by her association with The Ringling School of Art, Hilton Leech Studio and Women Contemporary Artists

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Her images are abstract expressions of nature’s moods. She works on paper with inks, acrylics and watercolor, all of which give contrast and vitality to her work. To the observer her paintings are awash with colors and spiced with the artist’s yen to create visually exciting pieces which liven the senses.

Artist’s statement

The painting surface controls its own ambience, its own growth and its own combat. However, the Artist would like to the viewer to have a sense of nature with natural forces traveling through the painting.
 

Juried Group Shows - Grand Piano Art Gallery-Second Place J.E. Voorhees Galleries All Florida Show 1992-1998 Manatee Community College Collector’s Gallery, Longboat Key Venice, Fl “A Sun Fiesta” Joan Hodgell Gallery Collectors Wall Fine Art Gallery Van Wezel Hall Longboat Key Art Center Venice Art Center

Solo Exhibitions
Women’s Resource Center of Sarasota 1996

Awards
Grand Piano Art Gallery Juried Art Competition Second Place, Mixed Media
Sarasota Visual Art Center, First Place 1999-Merit Award 1997
WCA-Village of the Arts Second Place 2002

Gallery Representation
Fulton Burt Gallery 1997-1999
Staten Island Museum, N.Y.
Sailor’s Snug Harbor Museum, N.Y.
East Brunswick Library, N.J.
Health Smith, East Northport, N.Y.

Membership
Women Contemporary Artists
Art Center Sarasota
Petticoat Painters