| Virginia Ivanicki has been painting since graduating in Fine Arts at The Alberta College of Art and Design (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) in 1976. After graduating, she joined CBS Records of Canada as the Alberta Regional Display Representative. In 1979, after moving to the Pacific Coast, she worked in various art fields, honing additional painting skills while scenic painting for theatre and live-action film. In 1989 she was given an opportunity to paint in the animation business. There followed a free-lance career in colour design and creating master background paintings for numerous television ads, animated specials and series at many Vancouver studios, including Disney and AKA Cartoon Inc.. Throughout her free-lance career, she continued to paint, creating hundreds of paintings in the realism and surreal genres, including scenic studies of the Pacific coast from Oregon to the Sunshine Coast of B.C. north of Vancouver. Most of these early paintings were collected across Canada and the U.S. Now solely devoted to her own painting, Virginia Ivanicki has shown extensively in Seattle and Vancouver, as well as in galleries and exhibitions in L.A., Ft. Lauderdale, New York, Maryland, Toronto and Calgary throughout her over thirty year career. Her work has been collected world wide. |
| 1976 Graduate in Fine Arts, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| 2009 Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2008 Air-Plane-Era 2007 La Cabana Gallery, Sechelt, BC 2006 Aero Dynamic, Havana Theatre/Gallery, Vancouver 2005 Automotive Suite, The Auto Gallery of Seattle 1992 56 Gallery, Vancouver 1983 Toussewasket Galleries, Kelowna, BC 1981 Merganzer Galleries, Vancouver |
| 2005 Frederickson Classics: The Galleria of Fine Auto Art, Seattle Auto Show, QWEST Events Center, Seattle, WA 1991 Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, B.C. (with Chris Woods) |
| 2005/06/07/08 Everything But the Kitchen Sync Group Show, annual show, La Luz De Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles 2007 ArtExpo, New York 2005 American Society of Aviation Artists, Patuxent River Naval Air Base Museum, Maryland, 2005 S.O.I.L. Gallery, Seattle, WA 2005 View from the Surreal, D’Adamo/Woltz Gallery Seattle, WA 2003 Driven Up the Wall, Art of the Automobile, Maple Ridge Art Gallery, BC 2003 DVA Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2003 Ace Studios, Seattle, Washington 1994 Level II Gallery, North Vancouver, BC 1992 Return of the Warehouse Show, Vancouver, BC 1986-90 IBM Convention Art Shows: Banff, Montreal, Florida, Quebec City, Vancouver 1982-86 Koyman Galleries, Ottawa, Ontario 1982/83/85/86 Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver, B.C. 1984 The Warehouse Show, Vancouver, BC |
| 2007 Hemmings Classic Car Magazine, Vermont, USA May Issue – Featured Automotive Artist Review 2006 CBC-AM Radio - Interview with Sheryl MacKay, North by Northwest 2005 Review, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Regina Hackett, art critic), Aug.12 2004 ZedTV Show (CBC TV) Featured Artist ( Jan.23) 2003 WestEnder Urban Newspaper, Vancouver, BC |