VICTORIA CHAPMAN AND VC PROJECTS | EL NIDO

VICTORIA CHAPMAN, A LOS ANGELES-BASED CURATOR AND GRADUATE OF THE SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY, ESTABLISHED VC PROJECTS IN 2014. HER MISSION WITH VC PROJECTS IS TO SUPPORT ARTISTS IN THEIR STUDIO AND EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING REPRESENTATION AT ART FAIRS. WITH OVER 25 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN VARIOUS ROLES WITHIN THE ART WORLD, INCLUDING POSITIONS AT MUSEUMS SUCH AS THE ISABELLA GARDNER MUSEUM, THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, THE ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART, AND THE LAGUNA ART MUSEUM, AS WELL AS SERVING AS AN ART DIRECTOR FOR DANIEL FINE ART SERVICES, CHAPMAN HAS A DIVERSE AND EXTENSIVE BACKGROUND.

CHAPMAN IS NOT ONLY A CURATOR BUT ALSO A PUBLISHED WRITER, SPEAKER, AND MENTOR IN ART HISTORY AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS. HER CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED THROUGH VARIOUS FEATURED CURATOR ROLES, SUCH AS "SMALL TALKS" IN ENGLAND AND LACP’S CONVERSATIONS WITH A CURATOR IN LOS ANGELES. SHE ALSO HOSTS THE VC PROJECTS PODCAST: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ART ON SPOTIFY, WHERE SHE HAS PRODUCED OVER 24 EPISODES. IN ADDITION TO HER CURATORIAL WORK, CHAPMAN HAS BEEN A PORTFOLIO REVIEWER FOR THE LOS ANGELES CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND SERVES AS A CURATORIAL ADVISOR AND LIAISON TO CASA REGIS: CENTER FOR CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY ART IN ITALY. SHE IS ALSO AN HONORARY MEMBER OF ST. JAMES'S CLUB AND THE ROYAL OVERSEAS LEAGUE IN LONDON, ENGLAND.

IN 2021, CHAPMAN INTRODUCED EL NIDO BY VC PROJECTS, A SPANISH-NAMED PRIVATE ART SPACE THAT IS HER PERSONAL CREATIVE SANCTUARY. EL NIDO SERVES AS A DYNAMIC PLATFORM FOR VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS, INCLUDING WRITTEN AND SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCES. THE SPACE CONTINUALLY EVOLVES, ADAPTING TO CHAPMAN'S ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS, AND IS NESTLED WITHIN 22 ARTIST STUDIOS ORIGINALLY BUILT IN THE 1920S, OFFERING A UNIQUE AND VIBRANT ENVIRONMENT FOR CREATIVITY AND EXPRESSION.

A VIEW OF EL NIDO BY VC PROJECTS, AND INSIDE THE INSTALLATION AND EXHIBITION | THE PAST AS FUTURE IS PRESENT | CONVERSATIONS THROUGH TIME

BELOW WATCH A SHORT DOCUMENTARY OF 'TRANSLATIONS OF BEING THROUGH SIGHT AND SOUND" 

FEATURING SHOOKA AFSHAR, SOPRANO, ACCOMPANIED BY ANTHONY CARDELLA, PIANO, 

AND SHANE GUFFOGG, INTERNATIONAL ARTIST, 

WITH INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST, STEVIE KINCHELOE, MOVEMENT

UPCOMING

“NOW AND NOW AND NOW” FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2024 (FROM 2 - 6 PM)

PHOTOGRAPHY AND CONCEPTUAL REVERIES

EXHIBITION HOURS: THURS - SATRUDAY FROM 1 PM TO 4 PM

CURATORIAL SUPPORT

CHAPMAN'S COLLABORATION WITH ARTIST SHANE GUFFOGG, WHICH BEGAN IN 2015, INITIALLY INVOLVED TASKS SUCH AS MANAGING NEWSLETTERS AND ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES. OVER TIME, HER ROLE EVOLVED TO ENCOMPASS EXHIBITION PLANNING AND THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS OF GUFFOGG'S LOS ANGELES STUDIO. THIS EXTENSIVE PARTNERSHIP LED TO INSIGHTFUL DIALOGUES ABOUT GUFFOGG'S WORK AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH ART HISTORY, RESULTING IN PUBLISHED WORKS LIKE "THOUGHTS AND CONVERSATIONS WITH SHANE GUFFOGG – THIRTEEN ESSAYS" AND "SEVEN CONVERSATIONS ON COLOR." CHAPMAN ALSO CONDUCTS WRITTEN INTERVIEWS, INCLUDING "SHANE GUFFOGG: SELF-PORTRAITS" AND "THE LIFE OF THE ARTIST AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS," ALONG WITH HOSTING AUDIO DISCUSSIONS THROUGH THE VC PROJECTS PODCAST, TITLED "CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ART." 

CHAPMAN IS ALSO A CONTRIBUTING CURATOR AND LIAISON TO CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS/ARTIST RESIDENCIES; CASA REGIS: CENTER FOR CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY ART, AND VILLA EMMA LOCATED IN THE PIEDMONT REGION OF NORTHERN ITALY, 

IN 2023, THE HIDE ARTIST RETREAT AND THE LIVING ARTIST WORKSHOP SERIES HAVE ALSO BEEN ADDED TO THE RESIDENCY PAGE.

PODCAST

VC PROJECTS (VICTORIA CHAPMAN) "CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ART" ONE ONE-ON-ONE CONVERSATIONS EXPLORING ARTISTS’ WORK STUDIO PRACTICE AND ACADEMIC FINDINGS. AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY: HTTPS://OPEN.SPOTIFY.COM/SHOW/74XZQDQK1319HSPPZFPHQ

RESEARCH

VICTORIA ENJOYS ONGOING ART HISTORY RESEARCH AND FREQUENTLY WRITES ABOUT HER DISCOVERIES. SOME OF HER ESSAYS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN LOS ANGELES-BASED ART CONFIDENTIAL MAGAZINE.

UPCOMING AND ARCHIVE

Exhibitions and projects produced and or curated by VC Projects

2024

“NOW AND NOW AND NOW”: GROUP EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND CONCEPTUAL REVERIES.. NOVEMber 2024, IPSHITA MAITRA, FRANCESCO TORI , LINDA ZAMBOLIN, l. mikelle standbridge, STEVIE KINCHELOE, GREG SMITH, TAMARA REYNOLDS, melody joy overstreet. VICTORIA CHAPMAN, AND ALEXANDRA TERLESKY, EL NIDO, LOS ANGELES CURATED BY Victoria chapman, AND STEVIE KINCHELOE

“SUMMER SOLSTICE” PAINTINGS BY SHANE GUFFOGG - AN EXHIBITION EXPLORING LIGHT, TIME AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE, HOMAGE TO JOHN MILTON AND THOSE DEDICATED TO FOLLOWING THE LIGHT. (JUNE 24 - JULY 24, 2024), EL NIDO AND THE BLUE ROOM, CURATED BY VC PROJECTS AND SHANE GUFFOGG, CONTEMPORARY ART ESSAY, SOCIAL MEDIA

STEIVE KINCHELOE: “ARTIST IN RESIDENCE” | EL NIDO LOS ANGELES -(JUNE - DECEMBER  2024) ONGOING SERIES OF IN PERSON EVENTS AND ONLINE EXPERIENCES | MENTOR AND CURATORIAL SUPPORT, CONTEMPORARY ART ESSAY (JUNE - DECEMBER  2024)

SHANE GUFFOGG: “VIBRATIONS”, SOLO EXHIBITION, VANITIES GALLERY, PARIS, FRANCE, (MAY 30 - JUNE 30, 2024) PROVIDED ASSISTANCE ART DESCRIPTIONS, PROVENANCE DOCUMENTS, SHIPPING, SOCIAL MEDIA, PODCAST, AND CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW

SHANE GUFFOGG: AT THE STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD - STRANGERS OF TIME, SOLO EXHIBITION, (APRIL 10-NOVEMBER 24, 2024) SCALA CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO, VENICE, ITALY. PRESENTED BY PATRICK CARPENTIER, CO-CURATED BY PIER PAOLO SCELSI AND ANDI CAMPOGNONE, CURATORIAL AND EXHIBITION ASSISTANCE, VICTORIA CHAPMAN

Slow Art Day (april 13, 2024), “The visible and the INvisible” Spoken Word, featuring Victoria Chapman, stevie kincheloe, and steven dayvid mckellar, online

Stevie Kincheloe, (FIRST ITERATION): “My Self Being My Self”, art installation, INCLUDES VIDEO, SPOKEN WORD AND BOOK LAUNCH, January 6 - March 23, 2024- El Nido, Los Angeles

Shane Guffogg: Lines and Dots - Thoughts Before Language - a survey of paintings from 1991 - 2018, (January 16 - March 3, 2024), The Blue Room at El Nido, Los Angeles

2023

The Spoken Word - An immersive exploration of the human psyche, December 15 - March 6, 2024, online VC Projects website “The Spoken Word Project” featuring: Shane Guffogg, Victoria Chapman, Ipshita Maitra, Francesca Virginia Coppola, Lisa Tomczeszyn, Amber Maida and Alice Sheppard-Fidler

The Written Word - A Sharing of Thoughts by Artists, July 5 - October 20, 2023, Online, featuring: Stevie Kincheloe, Steven Dayvid McKellar, Annabella Prtichard, Alice Sheppard- Fidler, Amber Maida, Richard Speer, Annastasia Kirages, Suvi Hänninen, Ipshita Maitra, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Shane Guffogg, Lisa Tomczeszyn, Richard Paske, Susanna Schulten, Julio Panisello-Huquet, Saun Santipreecha, Francesca Virginia Coppola, Sam Francis and Victoria Chapman

The Music Within the Patterns, by Shane Guffogg, features one large painting, lecture, and performance on Minimalism by Anthony Cardella, pianist. June 17, 2023. A one-day event, a music program consisting of China Gates by John Adams, Evening Song from the opera Satyagraha, the conclusion to Act 3) curated by VC Projects

Steven Dayvid McKellar: Nooit ge Dacht, curated by VC Projects, located at El Nido, April 21 - May 25, 2023, with paintings, works on paper, objects, and sound. Programming for this exhibition features Record Listening Party, Curatorial Talk, and a closing event.

Maximalism/Minimalism: Anthony Cardella, Pianist, Shane Guffogg, Artist, April 22, 2023, Music and Art Immersion at Schoenfeld Recital Hall, USC. Music program featuring Maximal and Minimal compositions by Kapustin, Liszt, Dancigers, and Glass, 80 minutes of piano performed by memory with no breaks. Oil paintings representing Maximalism and Minimalism by Shane Guffogg. Curated by VC Projects

Homage to Sam Francis for Slow Art Day, April 15, 2023, an online exhibition featuring work inspired by selected poetry by Sam Francis. Contributing artists Shane Guffogg, Victoria Chapman, L. Mikelle Standbridge, Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson, Stevie Kincheloe, Mark van Drunick, and A.K.A.T.

Shane Guffogg: Xingu curated by VC Projects, “The Blue Room” at El Nido, February 18 - March 16, 2023, and Rita House, Los Angeles, March 2- 28th, 2023. Medium to large scale works on paper and found objects installation Music performance within the installation by Pianist Anthony Cardella

2022

Connections in Italy exhibition program

Francesco and Linda Zambolin: Echi- sixteen pigment prints from the “Echi” series by Biella-based artists

Shane Guffogg: “Blue” curated by VC Projects, “The Blue Room” El Nido art space November 15 - December 2022 Three large oil paintings related to transcendental consciousness (visual symphonic poems)

Yuri Boyko: “Open to Interpretation”, curated by VC Projects, El Nido art space, October 27 - November 12, 2022

Seven pigment prints from the “Desideratum” and “Salve” series. Susan Sontag’s 1966 text, “Against Interpretation, " inspired the curatorial statement.”

“The Past as Future is Present - Conversations Through Time” In collaboration with Vramyan Interiors, Shane Guffogg, and VC Projects, Art Exhibitions with two rooms, September 9 - October 13th, 2022

A collaborative art installation of contemporary artwork by Shane Guffogg, amongst 17th - 20th Century Antiquities and objects, courtesy of Vramyan Interiors. Piano performance during the opening night by Anthony Cardella, featuring compositions by John Cage, Timo Andres, John Adams, and more.

“Translations of Being Through Sight and Sound”, Shane Guffogg, Artist, Shooka Afshar, Soprano, Anthony Cardella, Piano, Stevie Kincheloe, Art Exhibition, Opera Performance, and Movement. April 23 - 10 June 2022

Solo exhibition of paintings by Shane Guffogg, selected arias sung by Shooka Afshar, accompanied by pianist Anthony Cardella. Movement interpretation by Stevie Kincheloe. The artist talk with Shane Guffogg and Shooka Afshar, discussing the relationship between color and sound. Recorded podcasts with each artist.

Slow Art Day, Denys Kushnarov, and Yuri Boyko: “War and Peace” (Ukrainian Voices), April 2 - 14, 2022

A two-person exhibition featuring film, photography, and a message from Ukraine. Filmmaker and Ukrainian TV host Denys Kushnarov resides in war-stricken Kyiv, while Yuri Boyko, a Ukrainian-American artist, lives in Los Angeles. While neither of these two Ukrainian-born artists have ever met, they share a commonality of peace in the face of war. This exhibition is on display at El Nido art space.

Natasha Rudenko: “Be/Longing” - solo exhibition, February 19 - March 24, 2022

Solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based Natasha Rudenko displaying medium-scale conceptual photography. On view at El Nido art space. East Hollywood.

The opening reception includes three excerpts from the Women / Immigration / Fight or Flight opera performed by soprano composer Shooka Afshar.

2021

Erica Shires: “Ghosts Disappear Like Light” solo exhibition, November 27, 2021 - January 14, 2022

Solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, Erica Shires, displaying works from her ongoing series, wet-plate collodion. On view at El Nido alternative space, East Hollywood.

L.Mikelle Standbridge: “The Host and the Guest” solo exhibition July 31 - September 4th, 2021

Solo exhibition by Milan-based American artist L.Mikelle Standbridge, displaying photography and mixed media works. On view at El Nido alternative space, East Hollywood.

“In Your Absence, Something can be Born” An allegory of love, June 7 - July 12, 2021

Group exhibition, displaying works of small scale in photography, mixed media, and object d’ art. Exhibiting artists: Erica Shires, L. Mikelle Standbridge, Denis Forest, Shane Guffogg, Dennis Ekstrom, Yuri Boyko, AKAT, and Victoria Chapman. On view at El Nido alternative space, East Hollywood.

Shane Guffogg: “40 Years of Self-Portraits” March 27 - April 24, 2021

A solo exhibition of paintings works on paper, sculpture, sketchbooks, and text by Los Angeles-based artist Shane Guffogg. VC Projects assisted with exhibition production, curation, and logistics to present the show at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA 92701

Special feature for Slow Art Day, April 10, 2021

Five works were selected for special ‘slow’ viewing, with cited notes from the artist.

David Mather: “Calibration series” April 10, 2021

An online exhibition of color drawings by David Mather for Slow Art Day (April 10, 2021). The programming includes a podcast, “Opening to Color,” on Spotify produced by VC Projects.

Slow Art Day is an annual event where art galleries and museums worldwide select five works from their collections to view slowly. Slowly viewing art reminds us to pause and understand the maker’s concept of visual language. Five artworks have been selected from David Mather’s Calibration series to view slowly.

2020

Shane Guffogg: Path of Light, December 24 - February 7, 2021

A solo exhibition of works on paper by American artist, Shane Guffogg, presented at Casa Regis: Center for Culture and Contemporary Art, Italy. VC Projects assisted with exhibition production and logistics to present the show in Italy

Soft, Silky, Melting … Memories December 5th - 18th, 2020

A group exhibition, a pop-up show, presented and curated by VC Projects at Western Avenue Collective.

1028 N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90029

A selection of photographs, mixed media, and object d’ art

Participating artists: Yuri Boyko, Erica Shires, Greg Smith, and L. Mikelle Standbridge.

This exhibition was highlighted by Curate LA, CURA, and Artillery Magazine

Agent of Ordinary Pleasures September 10 - 24th, 2020

In partnership with Maiden LA, presented and curated by VC Projects,

A group exhibition pop-up show, on view at The Lodge Gallery, Hollywood

1024 N. Western Ave. Los Angeles, Ca. 90029. From September 10 - 24th, 2020

A selection of works on paper, mixed media, photography, and film, explores intimacy and sense of self.

Participating artists: Brandy Eve Allen, Nils Benson, Yuri Boyko, Aaron Coyes, Shane Guffogg, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Julio Panisello-Huguet, Sean Leech, Randi Matushevitz, Abtin Mozaffari, Erica Shires, L. Mikelle Standbridge, and Martyn Thompson

The group exhibition received nods on Instagram from Artillery Magazine, Autre Magazine, CURA, Curate LA, Hieronyvision, and The LODGE

2019

Yuri Boyko: Oblivious Unknown May 5 - 30th, 2019

A solo exhibition pop-up show, presented by VC Projects, featuring black and white photography by Los Angeles-based artist Yuri Boyko.

Located at Western Avenue Collective

SOUND INSTALLATION

2024

THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE BEING, SLOW ART DAY, (APRIL 15, 2024) SPOKEN WORD AUDIO, AND SURRENDERING OF PAGES AND AUTOMATIC TEXT EXPLORATION FROM MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY’S “THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE”) FEATURING, STEVIE KINCHELOE, STEVEN DAYVID MCKELLAR, AND VICTORIA CHAPMAN

A HEALING FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN - (4 MOVEMENT SOUND BOWL COMPOSITION PERFORMED BY VICTORIA CHAPMAN AT FOREST LAWN MUSEUM, GLENDALE) FOR GROUP EXHIBITION AT VILLA CERNIGLIARO, BIELLA, ITALY, CURATED BY CARLOTTA CERNIGLIARO 

Stevie Kincheloe: My Self Being My Self: January 27, 2024, art installation. video, voice and Victoria Chapman performing crystal sound bowls 432hz, El Nido, Los Angeles,

2023

KARNEJ/GESTURA

KARNEJ/gestura2: Thursday, March 30th, 2023, performance piece consisting of experimental sound, poetry, movement, and artificial intelligence.

KARNEJ/gestura1:

Thursday, February 16th, an inaugural performance piece in two movements Saturday, February 18th, 2023, in three movements, “Chair,” “Hair,” and “Fan,” consisting of experimental sound, poetry, movement, and ai

2022

Site-specific sound installation by KARNEJ and part of “The Past as Future is Present - Conversations Through Time” In collaboration with Vramyan Interiors, Shane Guffogg, and VC Projects, October 13th, 2022

ART PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC

2024

The Sounds of Color - Shane Guffogg AND Anthony Cardella music performance - an intersection of art, music and ai. APRIL 17M, 2024 at SCALA CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO, VENICE, ITALY

The Sounds of Color - Shane Guffogg, Anthony Cardella, JONAH LYNCH, lecture and music performance, an intersection of art, music and ai. March 9, 2024 at Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, California

Sounds of Color - Shane Guffogg and Anthony Cardella lecture and music performance - an intersection of art, music and ai. January 6, 2024 at El Nido, Los Angeles

2023

The Music Within the Patterns, lecture, and performance on Minimalism by Anthony Cardella, Pianist. June 17, 2023. A one-day event, a music program consisting of China Gates by John Adams, Evening Song from the opera Satyagraha, the conclusion to Act 3) One large painting by Shane Guffogg, curated by VC Projects

Steven Dayvid McKellar: Nooit ge Dacht: sonic sound performance and record listening party on various dates between April 21 - May 12th, 2023

Depth is All: Victoria Chapman/Stevie Kincheloe. A ritual performance for Homage to Sam Francis, group exhibition, April 2023

Music performance in collaboration with Shane Guffogg: Xingu exhibition Anthony Cardella, pianist, February 2023 - music program consisted of Janacek, Ravel, Scriabin, and Prokofiev

2022

Who Would I Be? Sonic/poetic performance by Stevie Kincheloe and Steven David McKeller - December 2022

Music Concert by Anthony Cardella, Pianist - November 2022- The music program consisted of Franz Liszt, Mark Dancigers, Philip Glass, and Nikolai Kapustin.

Minimalist Concert by Anthony Cardella, Pianist - April 2022 Music program consisted of John Cage, Timo Andres, Philip Glass, Mark Dancigers.

Women / Immigration / Fight or Flight opera performed by soprano composer Shooka Afshar - February 2022

COLLABORATIONS

2023

Parasol LA | Rita House | VC Projects

Creators Salon, Immersive Art, and Music Experience

Art exhibition, piano performance, and panel discussion Shane Guffogg: Xingu exhibition, and Anthony Cardella, piano performance (compositions by Janacek, Ravel, Scriabin, and Prokofiev) Speakers: Alan Sartirana, Azy Saii, and Shane Guffogg Date: March 2, 2023, from 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Located at RITA HOUSE, 5971 W. 3rd Street Los Angeles, 90038

LECTURES AND ART TALKS

2024

“shane guffogg: The Future as past is present” - artist talk, victoria chapman interviews shane guffogg about his art, process and creation. October 24, 2024, gallery chang, new york , new york

“an afternoon with two masters” - Victoria chapman interviews master artist shane guffogg, and master jewelery, alex soldier about alchemy, literature, time and legacy. october 27, 2024, gallery chang, new york, new york

“introducing luna: docent ai” victoria chapman is asked to be a representative for gallery chang in a video about their new app along with artist shane guffogg and ai developer, wade park about the creation and mastery of “luna: docent ai” an app and aide for gen z and minnelionals to learn more about collecting art, october 27, 2024, gallery chang, new york, new york

2023

The Life of the Artist and the Creative Process, with Victoria Chapman, Shane Guffogg, and Anthony Cardella, March 28, 2023, at Rita House, Los Angeles

2022

the relationship between curator and artist, Small Talks The Hide Artist Retreat, Cotswolds, England, September 22, 2022

A 20-minute talk followed by an audience participation Q & A. Presented on Zoom with online guests to speak about the relationship between curator and artist, specifically VC Projects and International artist Shane Guffogg.

PORTFOLIO REVIEWER

2024

LACP “Exposure Weekend” SEPTEMBER 11 - 15TH, 2024

online portfolio reviewer for the Los Angeles Center of Photography

2023

LACP “Exposure Weekend” February 1 - 5, 2023.

online portfolio reviewer for the Los Angeles Center of Photography

2022

LACP “Exposure Weekend” Jan 27 - 30th, 2022

online portfolio reviewer for the Los Angeles Center of Photography

2021

LACP “Exposure Weekend” Jan 21 - 24th, 2021

Victoria Chapman ( VC Projects), and Alice Lodge, Founder/Director of The LODGE art gallery, join forces for a portfolio review.

BOOK RELEASE

2024

SHANE GUFFOGG: AT THE STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD - CONVERSATIONS THROUGH TIME, LONG EXTENDED ESSAY BY VICTORIA CHAPMAN, EL NIDO PRESS , MARCH 2024, AVAILABLE ON BLURB

Stevie Kincheloe: my self being my self, (BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS, AND SELECTED INSPIRED QUOTES) FORWARD BY VICTORIA CHAPMAN - el nido press, book 1, II, III, (LIMITED EDITION of 5, + 2 AP ) MARCH 2024, AVAILABLE to purchase AT EL NIDO, LOS ANGELES

2023

Co-authored book with International artist Shane Guffogg

Color - (Seven Essays) was published. Just under 200 pages, the book looks at how color is used in art in conversation with Shane Guffogg. AVAILABLE ON BLURB

2019

Co-authored book with International artist Shane Guffogg

Victoria CHAPMAN co-authored a book with Los Angeles-based International artist Shane Guffogg, Thoughts and Conversations (Thirteen essays) on art in reference to the artist’s prolific work. AVAILABLE ON BLURB UNDER SHANE GUFFOGG

LITERARY ESSAYS AND ARTICLES/PUBLISHED

2024

Shane guffogg: the future as past is present - an introduction to the exhibition at gallery chang, october 24, 2024 new york city, vc projects website, vanities gallery, paris, france, September 2024

Shane guffogg: Transcending time and space reflections on shane guffogg’s artist journey in venice, vc Projects website, August 2024, “artist’s update”: art confidential magazine, Los Angeles, september 2024

“STEVIE KINCHELOE: A SENSORY ODYSSEY OF TRUTH AND CONNECTION” VCPROJECTS WEBSITE, JUNE 2024

“GUFFOGG: EXPLORING TIME, SPACE AND IDENTITY” VCPROJECTS WEBSITE, MAY 2024

“RAYMOND J. BARRY: THIS SEPARATE THING: CO-WRITER: REMY HAYES - ART CONFIDENTIAL MAGAZINE, SPRING 2024

“SHANE GUFFOGG: AT THE STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD - CONVERSATIONS THROUGH TIME” BLURB BOOKS JANUARY 2024

“SHANE GUFFOGG: CONVERSATIONS THROUGH TIME”- EXHIBITION CATALOG, SHANE GUFFOGG AT THE STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD - STRANGERS OF TIME, SCALA CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO, VENICE ITALY, AND ST REGIS HOTEL ART BOOK, FOUR SEASONS HOTEL ART BOOK, WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL ART BOOK, WINTER, SPRING, SUMMER 2024

2023

“FRANCESCO TORI AND LINDA ZAMBOLIN: ECHI” - ART CONFIDENTIAL MAGAZINE, SPRING 2024

“Open to Interpretation” YURI BOYKO - Art Confidential Magazine, Winter 2023

2022

“Exploring the Creative Process with Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg” Part 2 - Art Confidential Magazine, Summer, 2022

“Exploring the Creative Process with Sir Michael Lindsay-Hogg” Part 1 - Art Confidential Magazine, Winter, 2022

LITERARY ESSAYS WRITTEN WITH SHANE GUFFOGG

2023

Shane Guffogg: Part 5, The Life of the Artist and the Creative Process - “Certainty and Truth”

2022

Shane Guffogg: Part 4, The Life of the Artist and the Creative Process - “Transcending”

Shane Guffogg: Part 3, The Life of the Artist and the Creative Process

Shane Guffogg: Part 2, The Life of the Artist and the Creative Process

Shane Guffogg: The Life of the Artist and the Creative Process

2021

Shane Guffogg: Self-Portraits Part 4

Shane Guffogg: Self-Portraits Part 3

Shane Guffogg: Self-Portraits Part 2

Shane Guffogg: Self-Portraits Part 1

2020 -

Shane Guffogg: Color Part 7

Shane Guffogg: Self-Portraits Part 6

Shane Guffogg: Self-Portraits Part 5

Shane Guffogg: Self-Portraits Part 4

2019

Shane Guffogg: Color Part 3

Shane Guffogg: Color Part 2

Shane Guffogg: Color Part 1

Shane Guffogg: At the Still Point on the Turning World, Part 1

Shane Guffogg: At the Still Point on the Turning World, Part 2

2018

Shane Guffogg; Letter from Ukraine

Shane Guffogg: Art and Spirituality - The Search for Truth, Part 3

Shane Guffogg: Art and Spirituality Part 2

Shane Guffogg: Art and Spirituality Part 1

FEATURED CURATOR

2024

HIERONYVISION’S ARTIST ROUNDTABLE WITH SHANE GUFFOGG AND “THE ART OF ART”, PARTICIPATED IN THE IN-DEPTH TALK ABOUT THE CREATIVE PROCESS, BRANDING WITHINTHE CONTEMPORARY ART WORLD, JUNE 2024

2022

Small Talks The Hide Artist Retreat, Cotswolds, England, September 22, 2022

20-minute talk followed by an audience participation Q & A. Presented on Zoom with online guests to speak about the relationship between curator and artist, specifically VC Projects and International artist Shane Guffogg.

2021

LA Confidential Art Magazine, Summer edition. “Curating with Core Connection” - Victoria Chapman was featured for her career in art and mention of El Nido art space, East Hollywood. Along with the group exhibition, “In Your Absence, Something New can be Born”

Los Angeles Center for Photography (LACP) “Conversations with a Curator” Guest Curator: Victoria Chapman (August 10, 2021) Moderated by Sarah Hadley. Victoria was asked to give a presentation about her art career and answer questions from the audience via Zoom about curatorial aspects and exhibition planning.

GUEST on Calls with CURA | CURA Collection Care and Management. On April 30th, 2021, Victoria was a guest on the podcast “Calls with CURA.” This innovative and intimate series seeks to hear various voices in the arts sector and reveal their stories. Los Angeles-based Liza Shapiro and London-based Georgia Powell interviewed Victoria about her long career in the arts, curating, the beginnings of VC Projects, her work in Italy, and most recently, the Artists in Isolation series, plus personal stories about collecting art.

Victoria was also asked to do an Instagram ‘take-over’ on @cura_art from Friday, April 30th - Monday, May 3rd, 2021, to share past, present, and upcoming projects.

2020

VC Projects - Featured Curator | Interviewer

THE GARDEN - HIERONYVISION

VC Projects was featured on August 27, 2020, on The Garden of Hieronyvision for her work in the arts, including recent series, Artists in Isolation, Inside the Studio and Collecting Art on IGTV series @VC_Projects

CONNECTIONS IN ITALY

2022

Art Connections in Italy, Villa Cernagilaro, “Fluxus Art and More”

During July 2022, VC Projects spent three days and nights submersed inside Villa Cernagilaro’s History of a Possible Utopia, spending time with curator and founder Carlotta Cernagilaro’s childhood home, now a museum. View VC’s photo diary and the expanded history within this 17th-century villa that is now a mecca for Fluxus. See “Art Connections in Italy” https://www.vcprojects.art/connections-in-italy-

VC PROJECTS PODCASTS “CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ART”

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY

Interviews

2024

Ipshita maitra, whre voices call, talk 2

proust questionaire: shane guffogg/theirry tessier, talk 3

impressionism and influence: shane guffogg/thierry tessier, talk 2

EXPLORING ARTIST VISIONS AND CULTURAL NARRATIVES: GUFFOGG AND TESSIER: TALK 1

STEVIE KINCHELOE: MY SELF BEING MY SELF

SHANE GUFFOGG: LINES AND DOTS - THOUGHTS BEFORE LANGUAGE

2023

A TALK WITH IPSHITA MAITRA - AT HOME, IN EXILE

SHANE GUFFOGG - PAINTINGS FOR SCALA CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO MUSEUM, VENICE ITALY

Shane Guffogg on Sam Francis: Recollections on the studio and creative process of Sam Francis

Interview with Shane Guffogg: The Ranch, Then and Now

Interview with Stevie Kincheloe: The Living Artist Workshop series

Interview with Steven Dayvid McKellar: Nooit ge Dacht exhibition

Interview with Karnej: Experimental Sound, Gesture, and Poetry

2022

Interview with Stevie Kincheloe and Steven Dayvid McKeller: Entity/Identity: An Intimate Collaboration

Interview with Aya Metwalli: Egyptian Sound Composer – A Talk About Microphones and Mirrors”

Interview with Shane Guffogg: “Blue” A talk about the exhibition and transcendence

A Talk with Shane Guffogg about the exhibition: “The Past as Future Is Present-Conversations Through Time”

Interview with Stevie Kincheloe “Channeling Truth Through Movement”

Interview with Anthony Cardella, Concert Pianist “A Talk About Inspiration”

Interview with Producer and Director Felix Werner “The New Independent Film and Hieronyvision”

Interview with Shane Guffogg, Artist “Translations of Being Through Sight and Sound”

Interview with Shooka Afshar, The Quantum Soprano, “Translations of Being Through Sight and Sound”

Interview with Shooka Afshar, Quantum Soprano and Composer, About the Opera “Women/Immigration Fight or Flight”

Interview with Natasha Rudenko – “A Talk About the Solo Exhibition- Be/longing”

2021

Shane Guffogg: “On the Road to Napoli”

Shane Guffogg: “The Bay of Naples paintings”

Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson: “Flesh and Mind, Body Consciousness in Painting Part 2”

Barbara Flood’s Closet - “A Life”

Shane Guffogg and Stanley Dorfman “Shaping Cultural History”

Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson: “Flesh and Mind, Body Consciousness in Painting”

Shane Guffogg: “The Influence of Place”

Mikelle Standbridge: “The Host or the Guest?”

Introducing “The art of Art documentary series”

Bjarni Sigurbjörnsson: “Aesthetics and Body Consciousness in Painting”

Shane Guffogg: “The Alchemist”

“The One Picture Show, Conversations with art dealer Adam Gross and Shane Guffogg, artist”

Shane Guffogg: “Ginevra de Benci”

David Mather: “Opening to Color”

Shane Guffogg: “Art and Spirituality Part 2, Finding the Still Point”

Shane Guffogg: “Art and Spirituality Part 1”

Shane Guffogg: “A Rose is a Rose is a Rose”

Shane Guffogg: “The Psychological Landscape of Self-Portraits”

Shane Guffogg: “Sapere Aude” (Dare to Know)

Shane Guffogg: “The Artist and Materials”

Shane Guffogg: “Process and Creation”

INTERVIEWS

2020

Artists in Isolation series

In 2020, she received praise for her series, Artists in Isolation, documenting artists’ practices during Covid-19 mandates, which consisted of interviews about each artist’s life during lockdown.

Artists interviewed on Instagram Live or over emails

Mikelle Standbridge, Shane Guffogg, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Yuri Boyko, Nils Benson, Dara Nelson, Doro Hofmann, Bjarni Sigurbjornsson, Ragga Guomundsottir, Zoe Besmond de Senneville, Randy Matushevitz, Todd Williamson, Brad Howe, Yelena York, James Fields, Filmmaker, Hieronyvision, Georgia Powell and Liza Shapiro, CURA, Cynthia Penna, Curator

2019

Exploring the Creative Process with Michael Lindsay-Hogg

A candid interview with notable artist, producer, filmmaker, writer, director, and more on attaining creativity.

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