VIRGINIA LEIGH WERRELL American, born 1987
In this work Werrell depicts a memory of
Development 2013 Oil on canvas
away behind fields and small farms,
Courtesy of the artist
snakes around the landscape, pulling
the neighborhood where she grew up. She explains, “My house had been tucked and when I was about twelve a housing development was built, surrounding our small property. In this painting, a road with it matching houses and cul-desacs, and encroaching upon our smaller, solitary property. This painting is about the way that we accept the loss of wild, undomesticated natural settings, and about how that terrain cannot be completely lost.� Werrell received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work was included in a recent group exhibition In Our Own Backyard at Gross McCleaf Gallery and in the 1st Annual Juried Exhibition at Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio, both in Philadelphia.
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