VALETTA | Basch Gallery

Valetta explores interior worlds and the female psyche as she exposes rooms and the relationships that unfold there.

When Valetta toddled into her father’s studio in Brooklyn, she began making marks on paper. She hasn’t stopped since. As a mature artist, she works from the subconscious, often using dreams as her inspiration. For the most part Valetta’s images seem to be based on relationships, real and imagined. Rendered in hushed pastel tones, she discloses interior landscapes of the tension and disruption that often exist between men and women. In her work there is no resolve, no happy endings, just the figures within a moment suspended in their separateness. In her new works, gauze masks and charcoals on paper, she continues to probe the interior workings of the mind.

“I consider the work I’ve done a stream of fluid dreams realized on paper and canvas, a subconscious journey of creation. The journey may lead through dark alleys that reveal pain or onto bright highways full of joy. But always, I find unexpected places that take me over strange and uncharted roads.” – Valetta

This exhibition will be on view from June 3 – August 12, 2022. In-person viewings are free and open to the public Monday-Friday, 9am-3pm. The Thompson Alumni + Skylight Gallery is located at 2621 Bradenton Road, on the first floor of the Keating Center.

WHERE: Ringling College of Art + Design, Patricia Thompson Alumni + Skylight Galleries, 2621 Bradenton Road, Sarasota, FL 34234

WHEN:

·     June 3 – August 12, 2022, Monday- Friday 9 – 3pm

·     Opening reception, meet the artist: June 3, 5-7pm

ABOUT THE GALLERY: The Patricia Thompson Alumni + Skylight Galleries features rotating exhibitions by Ringling College Alumni from all majors on the first floor of the intimate and historic on-campus Keating Center.

MORE INFO: Please 941.359.7563 or email galleries@ringling.edu