Artwork copyright Virginia Paquette. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Sipario-Distrutto 3/Curtain Destroyed, 1989-1990

Virginia Paquette
American (born 1947, died 2022)

Location: Office of the Attorney General - Ecology Division (Olympia), Olympia

About the Artwork

Artist Virginia Paquette was inspired to create Sipario-Distrutto 3/Curtain Destroyed after experiencing the fall of the Berlin Wall while traveling in Germany. She notes, "this print incorporates images which reflect a personal response to that time: the curtain, the 'iron curtain' ripped, destroyed...hanging on in fragments, but on the way to revealing a new structure."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Office of the Attorney General.

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.