Valerie Ostenak

• American Painter/Designer
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• Membership: NoBo Arts District


ARTIST STATEMENT:
I am an intuitive painter, bringing the unconscious into the light of awareness. My paintings are emotional recordings—internal conversations that help me find the Light within the Darkness. Through color, texture, and movement, painting reveals what has been hidden within me and becomes my companion in the search for possibility. Inspired by the shifting nature of water, the vastness of the cosmos, and the steadfast growth of trees and flowers, my work explores transformation in all its forms—physical, emotional, and spiritual. Vines turning rubble into beauty and rivers carving canyons remind me that change is both gentle and powerful. My hope is that viewers pause, reflect, and recognize their own inner strength and light.

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

2025
• Art Comes Alive, Fall Edition, ADC, Cincinnati OH
• On Edge 2025, Edge Gallery, Lakewood CO
• XV Florence Biennale, invited: juried exhibition, Fortezza da Basso, Florence Italy
• Crocker/Kingsley Juried Exhibition, Blue Line Arts, Roseville CA

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 Phoe...