Virginia Scruggs

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Virginia Scruggs is an American photographer. Scruggs lives and works in Birmingham,Alabama and Nova Scotia.

Scruggs is a founding member of Stare Studio along with Melissa Springer and Karen Graffeo. Other artists who are part of Stare are Carol Cooper, Joe Mays, Denise Modling, Sonja Rieger, Kim Riegel, and Carolyn Sherer. This diverse group of award-winning photographers, utilizing a variety of techniques, exhibit a range of fine-art photography. Their subject matter include documentary, portraiture, and landscape images.

During the 1990's, Scruggs worked on a series of horses but unlike other artists who have used horses only as additions to scenic pastoral views, Scruggs work went further. She chose to personalize them in a way that would capture their soul. Sometimes she allowed parts of the horse itself to be a landscape likened to a horizon with the tuffs of its mane mimiking trees and sage brush. At one point, when one of her beloved horses died, she paid homage to it by using photography to record how the land was taking it back with the bones and grass combining and blurring the idea of nature and nurture in a very natural yet mysterious way.

Scruggs is also a photography collector and is a member of the Photography Guild of the Birmingham Museum of Art, which is one of the most important members' groups of the museum providing vital support to the museum's photography collection through programming and funding for acquisitions.

Scruggs' work was part of "Contour: The Definitive Line" curated by Jon Coffelt.

From the gallery's beginning in 1992 and until it closed in 2000, Scruggs was a stable artist of and represented by Agnes.

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  • Virginia Scruggs' shapes become a reflection and an inflection of our own reality. Ever-changing, these bubble-works expand what we understand on the surface by reflecting information back to us in a convex form. Upside-down and backwards, we rethink the lines of the known boundaries of expression. -Jon Coffelt
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