Virginia Overton sculpts space using found, often forgotten or over looked materials. Pallets squish between walls with shims. Large sonotubes hang from trees. Chairs balance in elegant, precarious towers. Baby tree saplings paint a live, minimalist bricolage. Overton prefers to highlight what she calls "unskilled skills" - like driving a truck and stacking chairs or pallets. Often delicately levitating, the lightness of the works contrasts with the sturdy materials, rough edges, and spills involved in the process of making them. 

Virginia Overton was born in 1971 in Nashville, Tennessee. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Memphis in 2005. She participated in In Practice Summer ’09 at the Sculpture Center in New York and had a solo show at Powerhouse in Memphis in 2008. 

Contemporary Exhibitions in 2010 organized by Claire Schneider, Senior Curator Scottsdale Museum of Contemporay Art.