Virginia Mallon

 paintings on non-traditional surfaces, such as burlap, slate, found objects, and cigar boxes as well as oil on canvas. Recent projects use discarded roof tiles from a former state-run (1885-1996) condemned psychiatric hospital. Now a hotspot for urbex explorers, it provides a wealth of unusual poignant pieces of history on which to paint.  The added symbolism using a piece of broken shelter from an insane asylum seems appropriate for our times.

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