Minnesota painter Virginia Randolph Bueide awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant

Bloomington, MN. February 10, 2014. Virginia Randolph Bueide is pleased to announce that she is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant for 2014-15. Bueide is the only Minnesota artist to receive the award this year.

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation's mission is to recognize and award those individuals who have worked as professional artists over a significant period of time. Since its inception in 1985, the Foundation has awarded over $58 million dollars to artists in 75 countries. It allows recipients to concentrate time for studio work, and prepare for exhibitions, purchase materials, document work, and otherwise build their artistic practice.

Bueide has been a Minneapolis-based painter for six decades. Born and raised in Minneapolis, she's since exhibited nearly everywhere you can in the region - the Walker Art Center (where she was selected for a group exhibition by none other than Donald Judd), the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Plains Art Museum, the Duluth Art Institute, and, most recently, at the Minnesota Museum of American Art as part of their acclaimed Studio Sessions exhibition in 2013.

She will be using the funding to create new work, as well as catalog and document her earlier works. The Foundation recognized the "exceptional quality" of her work as well as the "extent of [her] artistic achievement," and this funding will give her a chance to continue this remarkable body of work into the future.