Neoteric Art

Neoteric Art: Give us some history on yourself. Victoria Webb: I grew up in Princeton, NJ within a few blocks of the university campus. My mom was a painter who studied at the Art Students League in NYC and my dad was a film editor who commuted daily into Manhattan. My childhood was filled with art and music lessons, along with a full arts curricul... um in the Princeton public school system. I consider myself privileged to have grown up in such a liberal and diverse town, with teachers (and parents) who focused on critical thinking and freedom of expression. I went to one semester at Bradford College in MA where I was planning on a double major in art and music, and a transfer to a school with better studio painting classes. I then dropped out when my father became very ill. In my early twenties, I was designing and selling embroidered clothing and textiles in rural areas of Vermont and Nova Scotia. My ex-husband and I moved to Toronto in 1974 and met a group of artists at a collective who were selling limited edition prints door to door. That was my first exposure with actually making a living as an artist. We made enough off that and my fashion modeling to buy a log cabin and acreage in Maine - early 'back to the landers' with the objective of building double studios and being full-time artists. When I moved to Atlanta a couple of years later, I sold my own prints to galleries, at art festivals, and worked as an apprentice to an Atlanta studio, learning intaglio printmaking techniques like drypoint, aquatint, and engraving. At the same time I studied painting and color theory for about eight years at the studio of three Russian portrait artists renowned in Atlanta, the Chatovs. I began painting exclusively in oils in the early 1980s. NA: You have worked as a designer in the television broadcasting industry. Please discuss and also elaborate on how it relates (or not) to your painting. VW: At the time I entered broadcast in 1982, the Mac hadn't even been launched. I was working on the first 'Paintbox' developed ...Read More