Vic Barquin (born 1993 Cranbury, NJ; lives Fayetteville, AR) has a BFA in Printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston and is an MFA candidate in Studio Art at University of Arkansas. Her work has been exhibited at the Cleveland Institute of Art, OH; Indiana University Northwest, Gary; University of Mississippi, Oxford; Blah Blah Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Kaleidoscope Collective, Rogers and The Medium, Springdale, both AR; and Collar Works, Troy, NY, among others. Barquin’s writing has been published in Sixty Inches from Center and The Lemon Car Lot. From 2019-2021, Barquin ran the collaborative publishing program Halftone Projects and now works as Education Coordinator for the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative.
Statement from the Artist:
I get to know my materials through a variety of actions, including ripping, wrapping, drilling, cutting, mounting, stapling, painting, and tying. With each act of transformation, my materials become increasingly self-referential and the work becomes more and more about its history and the sensation of its making.