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Selected Press

Tiny Art Show News! - “A little love note to miniature art galleries” -  February 19 2025


Marionberry Review - “Tapping into the Vine Mind with Virginia Samsel“ - June 7 2023


San Francisco Chronicle - ”Meet the Wine Industry’s new energy healer” - January 26 2023 


Organic Wine Podcast - ”Virginia Samsel - Building Connections With Your Vineyard Through Biodyanmics & Reiki” - April 03 2023


The Times UK - “Grapes of Reiki” - January 30 2023


Edible Marin Wine Country - “Thinking Outside the Barrel” - May 20 2022


The New York Times  - “What’s in Your Locker?” - July 26 2009


The Washington Post  - “At Locker 50B, A Little Gallery Goes a Long Way” - June 28 2007


Style Weekly -  ”Lilliputian Art” - October 23 2002

Selected Works

Exhibitions & Community

Good On Paper - group show - December 2025

Foyer Gallery,  Richmond, VA

“I ❤️Steve” - live painting - 2025 - continuous

Seattle,  Los Angeles, Richmond, Tampa, Baltimore, TBD varied location

Live painting and collaborative interaction

LA Fire Recovery - Community offer - Winter 2025

Interactive - Los Angeles, CA & Remote

Virginia Samsel - works on paper - Summer 2023

Parlour Wines - Madison Park, Seattle, WA

Virginia Samsel - Love Rocks - Summer 2022

Sacred Rain Healing Center, Seattle, WA

Live Painting - Haiku - Fall 2025, Spring  2022

Imperfetta, Seattle, WA

Cutie Fest - guerilla pop up exhibition and market - May 2022

Cal Anderson Park, Seattle, WA

Mistaken Impressions - January 2016

Root Division, San Francisco, CA

de.pic.tion - 2008

Finestra Art, Chicago, IL and The Basement Gallery, Knoxville, TN

Squirrel-O-Rama - 2008

1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

Bad Drawing - 2006

University of Cincinnati curator Mark Harris, Cincinnati, OH

Collaborative & Curatorial

Idea Club - 2017- continuous 

Co-Founder/Producer

Collaborative multidisciplinary with Bruce Wilhelm - IDEA CLUB

Locker 50B, Virginia Commonwealth University 2002-2008

Founder/Gallery Director 

Public gallery, in miniature, with monthly group exhibitions, mixed media

“I mean c’mon, fluff my pillow”, Inns of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 2004-2006

Artist/Curator

Site specific installation/exhibition/performance with Mark Harris and Diane Derr

PROMO, performance/conceptual group, Richmond, Virginia 2003

Member/Collaborator 

with Whitney Lynn, Diane Derr, Jess Wohlers, Ken Reyher, and Holly Lester

Awards

Teresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts - Emerging Artist 2008 (curator, works on paper)

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