Velocity, 2012

Virginia Paquette
American (born 1947, died 2022)

Location: Columbia Basin College, Pasco

About the Artwork

Virginia Paquette's "Velocity" was inspired by the work, strength, and energy she found at Columbia Basin College, where this artwork's form expresses those concepts and the momentum they engender.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Columbia Basin College.

About the Artist

The late Seattle-based artist Virginia Paquette created paintings and conceptual public art installations. She stated that the primary urge in her work is "to make marks, images, symbols that will communicate to you a message, feeling, visual stimuli that may be pleasing or thought-provoking."
Paquette received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1976 and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1978, both in painting, from the University of Washington in Seattle.

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