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My art reflects my ongoing fascination with the landscape where urban culture and nature collide, most often to be found in the fringes of our cities. It is in these often-overlooked areas that I find both beauty & pathos, bizarre juxtapositions that reflect how we, as a society, have altered and continue to alter the environment. Growing up and living in Northern New Jersey most of my life, surrounded by endless miles of industrial parks, highways and shopping malls, have fueled my obsession with this landscape. In 2004 I moved from my long time residence in New Jersey to New Rochelle, New York. I have found an abundance of subject matter just minutes from my new home on the fringes of New York City. All of my paintings are painted on location. Once I find a scene that I want to paint, I set up my easel and return to the same site for weeks or months depending on the size of the painting. A large canvas can take me up to two and a half months to complete. In the winter, I paint smaller works on gessoed watercolor paper, from the relative comfort of my car. I find that painting in this manner allows me to interact with the environment as well as with people whom I meet in the different locations in which I paint. While talking to people on location, I receive a lot of information about the sites that I am painting. I find that this interaction, both with people and the environment, makes the method by which I work as important as the final painting. More of my paintings can be viewed on my web site: www.valerilarko.com |
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| Education: Arts Students League, New York, New York Du Cret School of The Arts, Plainfield, New Jersey Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2008 Mooney Center Gallery, The College of New Rochelle New Rochelle NY 2006 Urban Exposures 2005 2003 1999 1998 1997 1996 Selected Group Exhibitions: Trash, what we value and what we throw away Palpable Painting , Ramapo College of New Jersey 2005 Artistic Fragments SKYway curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado 2004 Art in Embassies Program, Minsk, Belarus 2004-2006 2003 Paper 2003 NJ Fine Arts Annual 2002 Women’s Works, Fine Art from the Museum’s Collection Gallery Artists Grants and Awards: S.O.S. grant from NYFA and NYSCA 2004 2002 2000 1998 1992 Selected Collections: Montclair Museum, NJ. The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ New Jersey Transit, Secaucus, NJ Rutgers University Johnson & Johnson Corporation, New Brunswick, NJ City Hall City of summit, NJ Fox Industries, Foster City, CA. Ginsburg Development Companies, Valhalla, NY Professional Activities: Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Director 1996-present Publications: 2005 January 2003 April 2002 November 10, 2002
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