Pincushion Studio

Plein Air on the Santa Cruz, 7th Annual exhibition at Tubac Center of the Arts, November 2024

Tubac Treasures, a show of work celebrating the historic district of Tubac, Arizona, opens Saturday October 12th, 2024. Enjoy a reception with the artists at the Lowe House, 14 Calle Iglesia, from 330 to 530pm.

“Fiesta” Sonora at the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild features the work of local artists and themes of the Sonoran Desert.

See the APAP Salon in Scottsdale Arizona Janury 2024

https://arizonapleinair.com/2024-apap-salon-prospectus

“Fort Lauderdale” wins Honorable Mention at SAWG’s Color My World Show in Tucson, through December 2nd. Also showing: “Duck and Duckling.”

In the last week of October, 2023, twelve artists met to paint at Rancho Santa Cruz and surroundings in Tumacacori, for the sixth annual “Plein Air on the Santa Cruz” retreat and workshop. The art is for sale and the exhibition runs through November 12 at Tubac Center of the Arts, 9 Plaza Road in Tubac, Arizona.

See the online exhibition here:

“Goats of San Francisco de la Sierra” now showing at the Aqueous Open 2023 International

Opening Friday September 22nd, 2023, in Tubac, the “Celebrate Santa Cruz Valley” juried exhibition includes three of my watercolors, one of them shown on the postcard, upper left.

“Goats at San Francisco de la Sierra”, at the Tubac Center of the Arts Members’ Juried Show through January 1st.

Two watercolors on view this summer at the Hilltop’s “extended gallery” in Nogales at the Santa Cruz Center, college campus for Pima College and University of Arizona

ONLINE ONLY: The International San Diego Museum of Art Artist Guild Spring Exhibition through April 30, 2022

https://www.sdmaag.org/2022-Spring-Exhibition

Two new watercolors on display at the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Gallery, Tucson:

“Aerial View SF Bay” featured in front, “Heroica Nogales Street Scene” on rear wall. Gallery is open Tuesdays through Sundays, 11 to 4.

Two acrylic paintings featured at the historic Nogales Courthouse for the celebration of the arts in October 2022

I was invited to submit a 6” x 6” painting for a fund raising exhibition at the Art Museum in Grants Pass, Oregon.
”Girl at the Mission” watercolor SOLD

https://www.gpmuseum.com/index.php/exhibits/upcoming-exhibits

“Horned Toad,” a mixed media piece celebrating the wonder of a unique desert creature in its environment, is on view at the Tohono Chul Gallery in Tucson through February 2, 2022.
https://tohonochul.org/galleries/current-exhibitions/

AUCTION SPRING 2021

“Caballito” was on display and sold at the Tubac Presidio State Park. Visitors enjoyed strolling through a beautiful desert garden displaying three-dimensional art by several local artists, and all sales proceeds were donated to the park.

https://www.tubacpresidio.org

LIVE AUCTION STARTS DECEMBER 3

www.westmont.edu/museum/5x5

Westmont College Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, in Santa Barbara, California, invited artists to submit a 5” x 5” art piece to be included in an online auction fundraiser for their 10 year anniversary. 5x5 Celebrating Ten Years will be on view December 3-18 2020. I created a watercolor depicting an imaginary line connecting California and Arizona with a U.S. flag, entitled “United States.”

Plein Air watercolor entitled “San Cayetano Spring” wins the Golden Artist Color Award at the Pikes Peak International Watermedia Exhibition in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Learn more at:

https://pikespeakwatercolorsociety.com/international-watermedia-2019/

Cast Your Dreams
into the Wine Dark Sea
Mixed Media Installation

25 inches wide x 6 feet tall x 12 inches deep

“Cast Your Dreams into the Wine Dark Sea” is a structural, semi-biographical poetic piece which will change as viewers interact with it. A roll of paper is fixed above a gilded frame, and stenciled phrases in English and in Spanish come into view as it is rolled down. These phrases by the artist encourage the viewer to add their dreams to the list. Words and phrases representing “dreams” can be added to the paper “canvas” as it is unrolled down and draped to the floor and into a velvet-lined box. An opportunity for a prize or two may appear, revealed as the word “winner” appears on the paper as it is unrolled. 

At the closing of the exhibit, the paper was unfurled to the floor in order to reveal written statements, reactions, drawings, etc., that participants had added for the duration of the exhibition.

In addition to the “Wine Dark Sea” exhibition at TCA, and the annual members award show at the Hilltop Gallery, several other works are in exhibitions at this time.

Selected to be part of the annual “Mujeres” Exhibition at Raices Taller in Tucson, is a watercolor portrait entitled “Ofelia Zepeda,” seen third from the left on the top row of this photo. Ofelia Zepeda is a Tohono O'odham poet and intellectual. She is Regents' Professor of Tohono O'odham language and linguistics and Head of American Indian Studies at The University of Arizona.

https://www.raicestaller222.com

Watercolor entitled “Take Me to the River” (below left) is showing at Otero Hall at the Tubac Presidio State Park, part of a local show in conjunction with a traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian. Find out more at:

https://azstateparks.com/tubac/events/waterways-exhibit-10-19

Here I am at the Hilltop Gallery in Nogales, Arizona, in front of a wonderful triptych in oil by Luis Preciado entitled “Winners.” See more at:

http://www.luispreciado.com/home.html

“Hayfield Rio Rico” wins an award of Excellence from Holbein Watercolors at the SWS annual exhibition, at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, Washington, October 2018.

Exhibit at Rancho Santa Cruz Gallery

A collection of work by eleven local artists is now showing through August at the historic Rancho Santa Cruz of Tumacácori. The new owners of the property, Susan and Peter Berryman, are passionate about reviving the legacy of the ranch and its special place in the history of the region. The small gallery and gift shop utilizes the 100-year old parlor, and extends into the adjoining ranch dining room. Hours of operation are based on a schedule of guests and groups visiting the ranch, and by appointment. Contact Virginia at Pincushion Studio: http://www.pincushiontubac.com/contact

Three small works at the Raices Taller 222 Gallery in Tucson through Jan 4, 218 E 6th St, Tucson, AZ 85705

A collection of original watercolors at the Santa Cruz Center, Nogales, Arizona Nov - Dec 2017

"Before the Race" and "Sangre de Cristo" on exhibit at the annual Members Open Show at the Hilltop Gallery in Nogales, Arizona

Three watercolors exhibited as part of the "Sentidos" juried exhibit at Raices Taller 222 Gallery, in Tucson, until October 15, 2017. The artist is pictured with her son Daniel at the opening reception.

New Plein Air watercolor entitled "Spring at Salero" won second place in painting at the Member's Show; at the Hilltop Gallery in Nogales, Arizona, May 2017.

"Blue Steer" accepted and SOLD at the Houston Watercolor Society International Exhibition March 2017

Jerónimos Lisbon watercolor (second from left) shown and SOLD at the Tubac Center of the Arts at the 31st Annual Arizona Aqueous Exhibit, juried by Monica Warhol. Opened on January 20, 2017.

A two-woman show at the Hilltop Gallery opened September 11th in Nogales, Arizona. The exhibition includes over 30 original paintings, watercolors of San Francisco by Virginia Vovchuk, and oils of the southwest by Pam Wedemeyer. The work of both artists celebrates a sense of place and captures unique light and perspectives, from the "Bay to Border." The show continues through October 5th.

Juried Exhibitions at Tubac Center of the Arts, 2015 and 2016

Member Exhibition, Hilltop Gallery, Nogales, Arizona, May 2016: One of Vovchuk's two watercolors pictured here.

The artist with “Red Tail Salero Ranch” on display at the Little Gallery at the Hotel Americana in Nogales, July 2016.