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Valerie Ann Valvo
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Valerie Ann Valvo was born April 19,1961. Her first formal art training was at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh at the age of 16. She then received a scholarship to attend the Art Institute of Pittsburgh were she studied Visual Arts and received a Graphic Arts Degree in 1982. Continuing her art education she studied fine arts at Allegheny County Community College of Pittsburgh Pa until 1984.

  


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A great deal of my paintings are created images from within, objects never seen or objects held. Many of the images are charged symbols from emotions, thought and experience. I paint how I feel about what I see.
 
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I work on several paintings at one time because I never know which one I will feel compelled to work on, (on a given day). Sometimes a painting will linger in a problematic state until seemingly from nowhere an awakening occurs, and time has created the resolution.

Art is more than skill; it is personality,vision, ideas; it is literature for the mind.

  
 

Previous Installation

1992 Ohio State Fair juried exhibit (1 st place)
1993 Delaware Ohio Artist Guild juried spring exhibit (Gold Award)
1994 Delaware Ohio Artist Guild juried spring exhibit (Gold Award)
1999 Art-1 Spirit Visions
2000 Cleveland Regional Medical Center juried exhibit (1 st place)
2001 I Am Woman Merit Award
2001 A Natural View juried exhibit
2003 Iron Mountain exhibit (2nd place)
2004 I Am Women exhibit 2004 Gateway to the South exhibit
2005 Minerva annual exhibit (Transformation)
2006 Minerva annual exhibit (Great Minds in Collaboration)
2007 Cleveland County Art exhibit
2007 A Natural View juried exhibit
2007 Minerva annual exhibit (Rhythm)

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Permanent Display

Delaware County Public Library of Ohio
Powell Public Library of Ohio
Ostrander Public Library of Ohio
Southern Art Society of North Carolina

Galleries Past and Present

Design 436 of Ohio
Bench Works Gallery of Ohio
Winter-Del Gallery of Ohio
The Copland-Gary Fine Arts Gallery of Ohio
City Center Charlotte Art League Gallery of North Carolina
Art-1 Gallery of North Carolina
Cleveland Spring Art Gallery of North Carolina
Southern Art Society Members Gallery of North Carolina
Synergy Studios and Gallery of North Carolina

One-Man Shows

2005 Contemplation, represented by Southern Arts Society
2006 Contemplation, represented by Cleveland County Arts Council

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Some Works in Private Collection

Mr. Joe George of Pa
Mr. Neil Yakich of Pa
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Alerecht Pa
Mrs. Sheila Eddy of Pa
Mr. Tom Juilian of NY
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Dan of TN
Mr. J Brock of NC
Mrs. Camiel Bradshaw of NC
Mrs. Susan Doggett of NC
Mr. and Mrs. Huddson of NC



Mrs. Barbara Ghigo of NC
Dr. Shipley of NC
Mrs. Leslie Cline of NC
Mr. Hal Bryant of NC
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bullock of NC
Dr. John Billinsky of NC
Mrs. Bonnie Price of NC
Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Reavis of NC
Mrs. Jewel Reavis NC
Mr. Robert Martin of NC
 


Contact Valerie at: vavalvo@yahoo.com