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“But down among the reeds and rushes / A baby girl was found / Her eyes as clear as centuries / Her silly hair was brown.” - Paul Simon Collage on paper (2018) 6.5 x 7.5 in. - Completed in 45 minutes, this collage was composed of cut paper. It’s the fastest work that came to be for me. I still carried the memory of seeing an exhibition of Frank Stella at the Princeton Art Museum. Source materiel came from Max Ernst visuals. I never wish for collage to spring from formulas but out of play, chance and freshness. From “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”. Miss the series? Tsk, tsk. Click the link above. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #vernavalencia #collages #contemporaryartcurator #collageart #corporateartcollection #emergingartists #instart #instadaily #collagesofinstagram #artsy #abstracted #worksonpaper #contemporaryart #artworks #art_collective #art__magazine #art_spotlight #artcollector #abstractart #contemporaryart #artdealer #abstractionart #emergingartistplatform (at Staten Island, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCdgqvgn8yv/?igshid=awu34qmsmjbw

Works in progress. The hunger to produce work remains at fever pitch. Recently, a painting by Toyen of a woman-turned-topiary so inflamed my imagination that I had to hit the studio and rethink my series “Sequestered”; It‘s divided now into two parts. The idea of woman/hybrid seemed in line with the trajectory of my work. Other inspirations include Picasso’s “Woman in a Chemise in an Armchair, Femme en chemise assise dans un fauteuil (Eva)” 1913-14, the use of winged and hooded figures by Leonora Carrington and “Portrait of a Lady” by T.S Eliot. - Stay tuned. - - - - - - - - - - #vernavalencia #video #videostar #vídeo #artistoninstagram #figurativeart #workinprogress #artcollage #artcontemporani #contemporaneo #isolationart #surrealart #contemporaryart #artnyc #artcontemporain #artcollage #visualart #avatar #artcontemporain #modern #fineart #artcollecteurs #surreal # #collages #surrealistic #artistofinstagram #todaysartreport (at Staten Island, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAFlSNKHbdK/?igshid=434pzduqsz59

“Compelling” describes the work of artist Kay Sage. Nearly 60 years later and we’re still enthralled. With paintings at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and a piece at Christie’s, why is she still so relevant? In “Mourning Becomes Electra”, I explore the motif of scaffolding in four of her pieces. Hit the link above for more info. Social distancing? No kidding! “Tomorrow Mr. Silver” carries the finality of an aftermath. Biomorphic rock formations hug the picture plane while the curved reach of caged scaffolding evokes detritus, a husked shell. Wispy and faint, a forlorn flag hangs limp. Slide 1: Tomorrow Mr. Silver” 1949 Oil Canvas 18.1 x 14 inches. / Slide 2: ‘Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool” 1947 Oil on canvas / 3: “Midnight” 1944 Oil on canvas 16 x 13 inches / Slide 4: Portrait of the artist, 1944. - - #vernavalencia #womenartists #womenartistsofinstagram #artworld_daily #artcollecteurs #womensupportingwomen #artwork🎨 #contemporaneo #landscapeart #surrealart #contemporaryart #scaffolding #artcontemporain #collectionart #kunstwerk #surrealistart #todaysartreport #artcontemporain #surrealportrait #arthistory #artaddicted #thepromise #surrealism #paintings #scaffoldbuilder #art #fineart #socialdistancing #socialdistance (at Staten Island, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_7UmN7H-XV/?igshid=6ay9c2lhn4bp

“The Conversion of St. Paul” Collage on paper (2020) 23 x 19 in. From “The Promise”. Miss the series? Tsk, tsk. Click the link above. This collage started as an exercise on line - wispy, jagged, peripatetic line. It ‘s quiet piece in color although densely textured; things took a turn when I decided to forego balance for asymmetry. This approach seemed more appropriate given the impetuous nature of my subject matter - a man so passionate and fervent in conviction that God changed his heart from killing Christ followers to spearheading two thirds of the entire New Testament. “What do you prefer? Shall I come to you with a rod of discipline, or shall I come in love and with a gentle spirit?” - 1 Corinthians 4:21 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #vernavalencia #apostlepaul #artistoninstagram #emergingartist #collageart #contemporaryart #collage #artcontemporain #artcollective #artjournal #artistsofinstagram #isolationart #artcontemporain #surrealism #collageclub #collage_collective #apostle #spiritualjourney #scissors #artcollage #lineart #artcontemporain #promise #spirituality #spiritual (at Staten Island, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_zlLL-nEVX/?igshid=h0r15qgec5zz

“For He will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.“ - Psalm 91:11-12 Collage on paper (2020) 13.5 x 16 in. - From “The Promise”. Miss the series? Tsk, tsk. Click the link above. This collage was begun in January and finished yesterday. The image of an angel, particularly, his hand gesture, was the elegant thing that first caught my attention. The work only came together only after I clipped individual hedges to soften angles. Deep viridian and copper imbue the work with warmth. What I like about this piece is an undercurrent of malevolence. - “Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?” - Hebrews 1:14 - - - - - - - - - - - - - #vernavalencia #artistoninstagram #faith #artworld_daily #collage #emergingartist #artwork🎨 #landscapeart #surrealart #contemporaryart #collageclub #angels #artcontemporain #collectionart #kunstwerk #surrealistart #isolationart #artcontemporain #surrealism #promise #artaddicted #thepromise #surreal #handartcollage #scissors #artcollage #fineart #artcontemporain #modernwarfare (at Staten Island, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_pQnE-H24H/?igshid=r81fuptugawb

Who best captures the sensations of flight and chaos in the form of a love letter? Artist, poet and musician Jörn Philipp Sohlmann aka @j.p.sohlmann_art pins down fire and cloaks it in velvet. Get your fix at Collage Corner. Vision happens. Click the link above. For more information, please contact Jörn at: @j.p.sohlmann_art Sohlmann.art/ - Images and poetry given by permission of the artist 2020. Composer @maurice_ravel_ dazzles us with “Bolero”. - - - - - - - - - - - #vernavalencia #surrealcollage #emergingartists #analogcollagecommune #contemporaryart #artcollector #artists #artistsofinstagram #loveletters #hamburgartist #artworld #poetry #germanartist #paperartistcollective #analogcollagecommunity #poet #story #instacollage #artistoninstagram #collagegear #modernart #german #germany (at Hamburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_XOSE5Hq85/?igshid=bzwnolpglyh6

“You will tread on the lion and the cobra; You will trample the great lion and the serpent.” - Psalm 91:13 Collage on paper (2020) 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. - From “The Promise”. Miss the series? Tsk, tsk. Please click the link above. - My research led me to study works in old auction house catalogs while preparing for this series. What drew me in were elements that seemed foreboding - the slender turn of drapery, the mystery of an open window, the appearance of faces in the cleft of a rock. Whatever it was, I knew I had to say this in collage. - - - - - - - #vernavalencia #artistoninstagram #artcurator #artworld_daily #artadvisor #emergingartist #artwork🎨 #contemporaneo #artworld #surrealart #contemporaryart #surreal #artcontemporain #collectionart #artadvisor #surrealistart #collage #artcontemporain #artjournal #promise #collage #thepromise #surrealism (at Staten Island, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_P9jWGnL_3/?igshid=r7cb5yrmkcya

Q.: What’s the story at the Dallas (virtual) Art Fair? Load ‘em cowboy! A.__Jazzy mark making. B.__The stylus as medium. C.__Nature as architecture. D.__The ubiquitous banana. E.__Sculpture with rear view mirrors. F.__All of the above. - Slide 1: Peter Sacks “Quickening” no. 18 (2017-18) Mixed media on canvas // Slide 2: Scott Kahn’s “South End” (1995) oil on linen at Harper’s Books / Slide 3: Zeke Williams “Lakeview, Tetons (2020) at Erin Cluley / Slide 4: Giuseppe Stampone’s “Maria Crispal in her country house” (2019) Bic pen on cementite on wooden support 29 x 35 x 4 cm at @eduardoseccicontemporary / Slide 5: Scott Kahn’s “Scrub” (1988) oil on linen at Harper’s Books / Slide 6: Alex Kanevsky’s “Model with Apple and the Plane (2018) Oil on board @hollistaggart / Slide 7: Haley Joseph’s Mundy’s Corner, Nanty Glo” (2019) at Jack Barrett / Slide 8: Ahmad Zaki Anwar’s “Two Bananas” (2020) Acrylic on linen at Saapar Contemporary / Slide 9: David Wisemen’s “Lost Valley Wall Mirror” (2019) Bronze and mirrored glass represented by @kasmingallery / @larsfisk “2002ball” (2020) steel, glass, auto parts, lift jack represented by Marlborough Gallery. - - - - - - - - #vernavalencia #artists #artfairs #artworld #stilllifepainting #banana #dallasartfair #exhibition #painting🎨 #paintings #artists #artistssupportartists #primate #artistoninstagram #sculptures #markmaking #artcurator #quarantine #harpersbooks #paintings #davidwiseman #makeart #artistsofinstagram #artcollectorworld (at Dallas Art Fair) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_FOE8lHr1O/?igshid=1d77m67o47q3r

This collage was inspired by paintings I’d seen in old auction house catalogs sold at the Strand for bargain prices. I was looking to weave in ochre and sage green and knit in crimson as a framing device. The suspended hovercrafts imbue a kind of underwater sensation. As a counterweight, I found “a contemplative” to sit aloof from the drama unfolding around her. So small were my images that I needed the tiniest of scissors. The title is: “Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.” - Psalm 91:1 / Collage on paper (2020) 6.5 x 9.75 in. From the series “The Promise”. Miss the series? Tsk tsk. Click the link above. - - - - - - - #vernavalencia #fineart #surrealism #artworld_daily #artadvisor #emergingartist #quarantine #contemporaneo #artworld #surrealart #contemporaryart #surreal #artcontemporain #bibleverse #artadvisor #artcollector #collage #artcontemporain #artjournal #portraits #portrait #collage_community #surreal #drapery #portrait_vision #instacollage (at Staten Island, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_ADxIpnsUn/?igshid=10tc6z18q5v73

Works in progress. Every week births a new collage giving me energy like jet fuel. My process is additive then reductive as the works are woven from a thousand little pieces. The studio is an explosion of books. I think of Jess who would scour scour Central Park searching for detritus, when he was alive. Last weeks’ collage was instigated after a walk in the woods. I needed to see the flowering trees, the magnolias, the buds - “the renewal of all things”. I needed to leave the house for awhile and remove myself from the constant news of death. - “I I shall not die, but live, and declare the illustrious works of the LORD.” - Psalm 118:17 “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow.” - 1 Corinthians 3:6 - - - - - - #vernavalencia #workinprogressart #instacollage #artistic_share #spirituality #emergingartists #workinprogress💪 #contemporaryart #studio #artcontemporain #spiritual #quarantinelife #worksonpaper #stainedglass #artaddicted #spiritualgrowth #artlovers #creativityvscorona #artwork_in_studio #art_spotlight (at Staten Island, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-xCATEnkkL/?igshid=dq5qnjd5fwoe

If the figure in art was a barometer to society, how would it read? - - In “Smooth Criminal: The Mad Deep Lit Report” discover what lies beneath the gloss as emerging artist Kate Cooper “employs computer-generated imagery (CGI) to create worlds populated by digital figures. Her protagonists bleed, bruise, and fall ill, displaying a fragility that belies their presumed immortality – and perhaps offers a way of resisting the demand of the digital capitalist economy.”– Statement, The New Museum, New York. Hit the link above for my latest review: - “The image of women is constantly changing..What is my relationship to these images and the way they’re represented? It’s about being agile as they are constantly shifting and performing. It’s not about identification but instead about how we participate in these images.” – Kate Cooper - - - - - - - - - #vernavalencia #digital #crimeandpunishment #katecooperart #womenartists #emergingartists #crime #punishment #contemporaryartmuseum #contemporaryarts #womenartistsofinstagram #artworkdaily #artistoninstagram #emergingartist #artcontemporary #contemporaryartcollectors #cgi #painters #artist #contemporaryabstract #smoothcriminal #video #figure #digitalartist (at New Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-hJBVWnTBj/?igshid=tth3wrvugt6n

Work in progress: “Portrait of the Artist Under House Arrest” (2020) Collage on paper. All rights reserved. - After unexpectedly unearthing an image of a painting by Dorothea Tanning in an old book collection, a spark rose from within. The soft features, the nebulous forms, the movement. Whatever it was, I knew that I knew that I knew I had to return to my studio and make a collage. - - Verse of the day: “The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” - Jeremiah 31:3 - - - - - - - - - - - - #vernavalencia #selfportraits #collageart #artworld #selfportrait #emergingartist #analog #contemporaneo #collageartwork #surrealart #contemporaryart #artadvisory #artcontemporain #artiststudio #modernartists #collage #collageartist #artcontemporain #modernart #portraitoftheartistunderhousearrest #portraitoftheartist #instaartists #surreal (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-b_yVknPsI/?igshid=j90iqmaika3j

"I be Sam, Sam I am And I don't eat green eggs and ham Style will hit ya, wham! then goddam You be like oh shit that's the jam." - the Wu Tang Clan Collage on paper (2018) 14 ½ x 12 ½ in. From the series “The Slums of Shaolin”. Miss the series? Tsk tsk. Click the link above. - - One of my favorite series, “The Slums of Shaolin” (2018) interprets street-style hustle, dexterous rhyme and Kung-fu clip via the Wu-Tang Clan. The series found its’ genesis in conversations with my now best friend R. while he was in prison. Our talks centered on day-to-day struggles, what defined true happiness and the meaning of freedom. It was while at work, one night, that I heard C.R.E.A.M on the overhead. It spearheaded the tying of all the things I was seeing and hearing. - - - - - - #vernavalencia #art #artist #artworld #collage #comic #emergingartist #contemporaryart #popart #curator #artadvisory #artistsoninstagram #artcollective #artcurators #artistshoutout #artcurator #artcollectors #colors #artcollector #rapper #jam #handmadewithlove #instacollage #americanartist (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-J7i7LH84B/?igshid=1oy9it0v172qv