Valerie Wilcox

Valerie Wilcox is a mixed-media, sculpture and installation artist living in Los Angeles, CA.

I take perceived flaws and imperfections and give them a compelling new life.

I use common and salvaged materials to intuitively explore contradictions and uneasy associations between abstract shapes, mark-making and painting. These assembled hybrid objects become my canvas and manage to transcend their base materiality, as the source materials are elevated and imbued with a newness of form and aesthetic.

Hope, second chances and authenticity are the values that I strive to incorporate into my artistic practice. I enjoy the challenge of discovering uncommon and salvaged materials that I can re-purpose and transform into unique sculptures. The elements I use include, but are by no means limited to: wood, plaster, papier-mâché, paint, textiles, carpet, metal hardware, cardboard and foam board. Many of the wood remnants I find show a particular architectural usage or a sense of its own history. These foraged materials connect me to my community and are a continual source of inspiration. Being authentic in my process means accepting the failures and trusting that these too can be reimagined into new opportunities.

My work combines the ge...

BFA, California State University Long Beach - Graphic design

Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023 - Atmospheres of Influence, 2-person show, Siao-Long Cultural Park, Taiwan
2022 - Geometric Abstracts: Iris Kufert-Rivo and Valerie Wilcox, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 - Material Persuasions, 2-person show, Launch LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 - Tinkering, SPARC@City Hall, So. Pasadena, CA
2018 - stARTup Fair, Representing Torrance Art Museum, The Kinney Hotel, Venice, CA
2014 - Shaped Reality, 2-person show, Galerie KunstKomplex, Wuppertal, Germany
2012 - Migratory Marks VI, site-specific installation, Den Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2012 - Marks in Motion, site-specific installation, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024- Diverted Destruction #17, The Loft at Liz's, Los Angeles, CA
Supermarket Art Fair, Durden and Ray, Stockholm, Sweden
Internal Affairs, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
QiPO - Mexico City Art Fair, Durden and Ray, Mexico
2023
Framework, MOAH, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Crossing Borders, Collaboration with Ruimte Caesuur, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Adaptation, Ruimte Caesuur, Middleburg, The Netherlands
Malmofornia, Durden and Ray, LA, CA
Shape Shifters, Garvey|Simon, San Enselmo, CA
Spring Invitational, RDFA, Los...