Victoria Nunley

BIOGRAPHY

Victory Nunley earned her BA from Brandeis University in 2014 and went on to earn her MFA from Boston University in 2018. She landed on the tone of her paintings while enrolled in Brandeis University’s post- baccalaureate program. 

Within Nunley’s painting’s she demonstrates a Wild West themes. It’s probably no surprise that she watches a lot of cartoons and animation. She is especially fond of shorts from the golden age of American animation and contemporary Japanese anime, giving her a lot of interesting ideas about composition and transformation. They also often play with visual gags that could only exist in a two-dimensional world. So marrying the wild west with these visual languages has stirred up a lot of really exciting visuals. 

She was in the middle of making probably a hundred bad paintings in a row when one of her professors remarked that one of them was hilarious; it wasn’t meant to be funny, of course, she was trying to be a serious painter and serious painters are supposed to make serious paintings about serious things. 

But with that one comment, she realised that she had been fighting against her own sensibilities — namely her own sense of humour. She had mistaken what it actually meant to be serious about painting. 

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