Victoria Haven

{{short description|American artist (born 1964)}}

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| birth_name = Victoria Haven

| birth_date = 1964

| birth_place = Seattle, Washington

| nationality = American

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| training = 1999 MA Goldsmiths College, University of London, 1989 BFA University of Washington

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Victoria Haven (born 1964 in Seattle) is an American artist known for her investigative drawing practices which often operate in the spaces between two and three dimensions. Using materials as varied as tape, rubber-bands, Gore-Tex, forged steel, and excavated building components, her work traces the corridors of real and imagined space. Critics say her "geometric abstractions...draw connections between landscape, history, and lived experience" with her work Blue Sun echoing the "weight and volume [of] the Olympic Mountain range" of Washington State.{{citation|title=Victoria Haven: Blue Sun opens at Olympic Sculpture Park |author=xavier_lopez_jr |date=April 1, 2016|newspaper=Seattle P-I|url=https://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlearts/2016/04/01/11883/}} The artist says Blue Sun was inspired by time-lapse video of demolition and reconstruction in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood.{{citation|work=Official blog|publisher=Seattle Art Museum|title=Blue Sun: Interview with Victoria Haven|date=February 7, 2017 |author=Chelsea Werner-Jatzke|url=http://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2017/02/blue-sun-interview-with-victoria-haven/}}