Valerie Mann | Movement and Stillness

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 12:00 PM 12:00
Saturday, March 11, 2023 5:00 PM 17:00

Movement and Stillness,

Artist Statement:

“My work is largely materials, process and idea driven, with my sculptural work taking

the form of either wall-hung object or installation work. I am also a watercolor artist,

but the connective thread through all of the work is a high expectation of

craftsmanship and an underlying sense of freedom and play. I aim to remove

boundaries to creativity as I work, and sometimes those boundaries are the ones

between 2D and 3D and sometimes they are the boundaries between traditional and

non-traditional media or methods of making. And sometimes those boundaries are

simply preconceived ideas of what something 'should' be. Always important is an

element of visual beauty, whatever form that takes.

I was mulling over a title and theme for this show...thinking out loud with my

professional opera-singing sister recently. (We often have deep conversations about

the arts, artistic process, professionalism, the interior and exterior life of an artist.) She

suggested showing a progression of work, specifically showing the translation of ideas

through media and ideas. We forget that our own process might be interesting to

someone outside our own heads! The title refers, on one level, to the act of making

and the need for contemplation to generate ideas/responses to those ideas.“

— Valerie Mann