The works in Modalities of Expression show off the many different and innovative ways that artists give their dreams and passions physical form, allowing them to share their vision with others. Shape and medium, line and hue all play their part in these delicately balanced and immersive pieces...
Through her compelling mixed media on canvas art, Val dâOff explores the patterns of communication that exist in our current global society using an unusual approach. Before she begins painting, she covers the entire canvas with torn and patched up paper (taken from newspapers, books, photos, and handwritten pages). Inks, pencils, and pigments are then superimposed on the patchwork to create a multidimensional effect. The textual variations in the paper work to create prisms of light and breathe life into the overall image. In this way, the various forms of communication represented in the paper patchwork come to define the finished image, conveying the importance and value that words have in our culture. In a number of works, the artist even makes words the main subject of the piece, literally painting with words. As Val dâOff explains, âWe are made of words: our first lessons, the pages in our first notebooks, textbooks... From the beginning they penetrate us, instruct us, reach to us, speak to us⊠or not. We keep them, leave them, and we build ourselves through them.â Read more on Wall Street International Magazine, September 22, 2014
Art Exhibition: Modalities of Expression - 10-30 Oct 2014 @ Agora Gallery, New York.
