Viza Arlington

Viza Arlington

Attended Pacific Northwest College of Art where she majored in printmaking. She worked as a professional screen printer for many years but gave that up to work on her own art. Viza now lives and has her studio at the family farm outside of Cheney WA. She is an active member of the BarenForum, Seattle Print Arts and the American Print Alliance. Her work is included in the collections of the Spencer Museum of Art - Lawrence, Kansas, The University of Kentucky Museum of Art in Lexington, Kentucky, and in private collections around the world.

Artist Statement:

I like to get to the basics of an image and printmaking gets me there. I am an artist printmaker and my mediums are etchings, collagraphs, linocuts, monotypes, but my recent work has been woodblock prints including oil-based, moku hanga and white line prints.

Each print starts with a sketch from life, sometimes an idea. Before carving and printing the woodblock, I refine the image with tracing paper getting rid of all the unnecessary lines...peeling off all of the layers until I get to the essence of the subject.

Recent Exhibitions:

2009

Second International Prints for Peace Exhibition, Monterrey, NL Mexico

SSNW/NSSW Print Exchange Exhibition, Port Pirie, Australia

2007

Fifth KIWA Exhibition and Tour, Kyoto Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan

All Media Juried Show, Chase Gallery, Spokane, WA

Hand-Pulled Prints International XIII, StoneMetal Press Printmaking Center,

San Antonio, TX

PRINT! Seattle Print Arts 3rd Biennial Juried Exhibition, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma WA, Harbor View Medical Center, Seattle WA

2006

25th National Print Exhibition, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT

Dirty Fingers Say A Lot: A Celebration of Pure Printmakers Exhibition, Foundry Arts Center, St. Charles, MO

BarenForum Members Group Show, North Bank Gallery, Vancouver, WA

Going Underground 4th Annual Juried Exhibition, New York, NY