Aggie Zed is a Virginia-based American painter and sculptor known for her animal-human hybrid ceramic sculptures and "scrap float" mixed-metal and ceramic constructions. Early life She was born in 1952 in Charleston, South Carolina and grew up on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. As a sculptor and painter she worked and exhibited in Richmond, Virginia from 1976 to 1998 and also lived in Gordonsville, Virginia. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and sculpture from the University of South Carolina in 1974. Solo exhibitions Her one-person exhibitions include: True F. Luck Gallery, Visual Arts Center of Richmond, formerly the Hand Workshop, Richmond, Virginia (2011-2012);Down to Earth, Recent Paintings and Sculpture, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky (2012); Aggie Zed: Keeper's Keep, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina (2012); From A to Z, Sculpture and Painting, Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (2011); Sculpture and Painting, Perspective Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia; Aggie Zed-Recent Work, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky (2006); Paintings, B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky (2004). Sculpture and Paintings, Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (2003); Scrap Floats and Jetsam, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia (2001); Paintings, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia (2000); Sculpture and Paintings, Nina Liu and Friends Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (1998 and 2000); Paintings, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia (1998); Paintings, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia (1998); Its Own Little Animal, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia (1996); In the White Room, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University (1984); Her sculpture was displayed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and in a one-person show at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond (2013); The Arts Company, Nashville, Tennessee (2014); Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, Virginia and New Welded Work at 1708 Gallery's opening show in the fall of 1986. Two-and three-person exhibitions Her two-person exhibitions include: Miraculous, with John Morgan, Chroma Projects, Charlottesville, Virginia (2010); Sculpture and Painting, with Bill Moretz, Rivermont Studios, Lynchburg, Virginia (2010); It's About Time, with John Morgan, Avenue Arts, Lynchburg, Virginia (2007); Know Show, paintings with John Morgan, Astra Design, Richmond, Virginia (2004); Mortal Oxide, with Frank Cole, 1708 East Main Gallery, Richmond, Virginia (1986); In 2017 her art was in a show of new works by three artists (Aggie Zed, Juliellen Byrne and Angela Purviance) at the opening of the new Imprint Gallery in Cannon Beach, Oregon as part of the town's Spring Unveiling Art Festival.
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