Valerie Corvin
Piedmont, California
Contemporary Abstract Artworks Working in Mixed Media, Collage and Oil Paint
MessageValerie Corvin is an American contemporary abstract painter working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her works are distinct and elegant and are inspired by natural forms and shapes. She believes that nature provides the greatest inspiration and works to recreate the feelings of joy, awe, and beauty one finds in nature.
Corvin uses the unique organic shapes and marks she discovers from a walk-in nature - rock formations in the mountains, the shape of a melting snow patch, a grouping of trees on a hillside, erosion of the earth on a hiking trail, or an aerial view of the landscape. These are forms and lines are starting points for the visual representation of the wonders of nature. Intuition lies in the use of contrasting, unusual organic shapes with enticing lines to punctuate the composition. Her many layers of paint, intertwined gestural marks and fields of color create a sense of excitement, beauty, and energy. A self-proclaimed colorist, Valerie’s sense of and love of color carries an emotional impact and helps her communicate her deeper feelings in her works. One can feel Valerie’s love of painting.
Corvin holds a Master of Arts, Museum Administration and worked for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art as a museum educator. She began painting twenty years ago, studying fine art at the California College of the Arts and with numerous Bay Area painting teachers. Drawn to fine arts from her family background, both parents are artists, her dad an international award-winning designer of fine jewelry and her mother a painter and sculptor.
She used her museum administration background to be a founder of an arts center in her community, the Piedmont Center for the Arts, and managed the visual arts program for eight years. Promoting and creating opportunities for fellow emerging artists is a passion and Corvin is the founder and administrator of a juried art competition exhibition now in its seventh year. In addition, Corvin is a former Trustee of the Board of Directors at the Oakland Museum of California for more than 9 years.
Statement
I loved lying in the grass looking at clouds as a kid. Those memories and feelings still fill my imagination. Shapes in nature spark my creativity. My artwork is about reclaiming that sense of wonder from looking at nature and the world around me. Searching for that sensation of aliveness. All the while working from my intuition for authenticity. Ultimately my visual language of shapes, marks and lines bring forth the feelings we all share of joy, beauty, curiosity, and our fundamental humanness.
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