Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz and their ‘collaborative enterprise in art and life’
Miles Orvell visits Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz in their studios for this feature that explores the couple's careers in tandem...
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Mary Murphy
Oct 23, 2023
Virginia Maksymowicz and the "Lightness of Bearing" at Rowan University Art Gallery
Artblog contributor Mary Murphy sees the multi-media exhibition of Virginia Maksymowicz at Rowan University Art Gallery and reflects that...
Andrea Kirsh
Sep 17, 2023
The Lightness of Bearing: Rowan University Art Gallery
Who bears the load? What is the relationship of beauty to strength? of the individual to society? of myth to history? Virginia...
Peter Crimmins
Apr 30, 2022
First New Sculpture in 70 Years for Philly’s 30th Street Station
WHYY Philadelphia The last time 30th Street train station in Philadelphia got a new public sculpture was in 1952, when Walker Hancock’s...
Tom Smyth
Dec 10, 2019
A Plaster-Cast Vision of America's Train Network
Virginia Maksymowicz’s West Philadelphia studio looks like she just got back from an archaeological dig: two mummy-like body casts lie on...
Margo Hobbs
Apr 17, 2018
Structural Transparencies: Phillips Museum of Art
In her series Comparisons (2015-18), Virginia Maksymowicz incorporates images of caryatids and canephorae—columns in the shape of female...
Sarah Archino
Jun 21, 2016
Strong Supports: Sculpture Magazine
From first glance, Virginia Maksymowicz’s "Bread" series clearly recalls antiquity. These works abound in motifs taken from Greco-Roman...
Mary Coss
Jan 15, 2016
Architectural Overlays and Anatomical Infrastructures: catalogue essay
Virginia Maksymowicz’s work wittingly combines the anatomical with the architectural creating metaphorical and real relationships between...
various authors
Oct 17, 2013
Selections from Recent Reviews
Broad Street Review November 20, 2015 Samantha Maldonado Subversive wisdom: review of "Old Enough to Know Better: at Crane Arts Each of...
Dave Hampton
May 9, 2013
Fanfare For Maksymowicz: A Campus Legend in the Shadow of ‘Fallen Star’: KPBS
A Mysterious Artwork Art lovers who meander along Alexis Smith's "Snake Path" and take in the view of "Fallen Star" are unknowingly...
Stephan Salisbury
Nov 10, 2011
Wall to Wall: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Not so long ago, in a galaxy not very far, far away, there existed a breed apart — feral, solipsistic, arrogant, and rich as Croesus....
Ana Finel Honigman
Mar 1, 2003
The Physical Boundaries of This World: Sculpture Magazine
Virginia Maksymowicz’s installation The Physical Boundaries of This World is a poetic and sobering visual representation of what Hedda...
Arlene Raven
Mar 1, 2002
Yes, Virginia: catalogue essay for Alternating Figures
Alternating figures are defined in scientific terms, Maksymowicz tells me, as "ambiguous diagrams serving in the psychology of perception...
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