Valerie Ostenak

• American Painter/Designer
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• Membership: Visual Artist Association


ARTIST STATEMENT:
Transformation. Movement. Flow . . . and the energy within. The energy that exists in the visible as a wave crashing into the shore and the invisible as thought: its effect on us and how we affect it down to the quantum level. This is what I and my art are about.

The pieces I create speak to hope, change, enlightenment, transforming and becoming better, weathering the storms and learning to swim within the chaos. They offer a way to embrace shadow and find the wisdom and the light within it.

INSPIRATION & SERIES::
I am visually inspired by the rich colors of oceans, forests, and flowers . . . by the perfect curve in the shape of a wave, the winding tendrils of vines and how they connect to everything around them. I am intrigued by Space visually and metaphorically. Images from the Webb and Hubble telescopes utilizing UV and IR filters show us billions of galaxies and richly colored nebulae. Though separated by incomprehensible distances, they are the light within the darkness. For me, beacons of hope and possibility.

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ 1970
California State University Long Beach, Long Beach CA 1982

2023
• Art Comes Alive, Fall Edition, ADC, Cincinnati OH
• ASiF Smallworks Holiday Show, Grass Valley, CA
• Art Palm Beach, Steidel Fine Art, West Palm Beach FL
• Art Santa Fe, Redwood Art Group, online/Santa Fe NM

2022
• Flinn Foundation, Cycle 2
• Portland on the Park Collection Exhibition, Cycle 10
• Seattle Art Fair, Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery, Seattle WA
• The Other Art Fair, Virtual Edition; Saatchi Art
• Artexpo New York, Redwood Art Group, New York NY
• NightVisions 2022, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff AZ
• Women of the Showroom, Steidel Contemporary, West Palm Beach FL
• The Palm Beach Show, Steidel Fine Art, West Palm Beach FL

2021
• "Space Art: Women of the Future," Palm Beach Design Showroom (Steidel Fine Art) West Palm Beach FL
• "Abstract," Art Room Gallery,
• Celebration of Artists 2021, West Valley Art Museum, Peoria AZ
• Making Her Mark: Art By Women, Sonoran Art League, Carefree AZ
• Greater Phoenix Revival, Greater Phoenix Economic Council, Phoenix AZ
• Palm Beach Design Showroom, (Steidel Fine Art) West Palm Beach FL
• ACA, Art Comes Alive!, ADC Fine Art Consultants, Cincinnati OH

2017
• Wearable Expressions, 7th International Juried Exhibition, LA, CA
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