Valerie Isaacs
On exhibit: August 20 - September 1
Artist Reception on August 25, 3-5 PM
Bio
Valerie Isaacs has been standing outside, painting, since 1989. She lived and exhibited in Spain, Charleston SC, and Cambridge MA before moving to Provincetown in 2017. She holds a BA in Architecture from Penn State, and studied Urban Design with the University of Washington in Rome. Isaacs trained in drawing and etching in Seville, in painting at the Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia PA) and with Douglas Balentine (Charleston SC). She has taught drawing for beginners, figure drawing, and landscape painting to adults since 2010, and currently teaches at Castle Hill and Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Her landscape painting and figure work are an exploration of nature, the power of color, and abstraction within representational art.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT: LANDSCAPES
I paint to intensify the experience of being outdoors in the light and wind, watching nature closely as the sun moves across the sky. I’m painting to understand the lichen and beach plum, the sea and clouds, the pines. I strive for light veracity, rhythm, and precise spatial resolution. My practice is also one of abstraction and simplification. How does the geometry of this two-dimensional composition relate to the complicated natural phenomena I’m here to study? What colors express the gestalt of this subject? I’m interested in a tension between abstract summation and naturalistic representation.
Sunset at Skaket Beach