Other media: Printmaking, Drawing, Mixed media
Tags : Landscape, Figurative, Psychological, Cerebral, Playful
Email: valerie (dot) richardson (at) yale (dot) edu
Website: http://valerierichardson.com
Artist Statement
Latitude 41.3 Project: My work is frequently voyeuristic: surreptitiously watching other people's lives from afar. I'm just starting to play around with an idea where I would “travel” around the world, via the internet, along New Haven's latitude of 41.3 degrees, which goes through Portugal, Spain, Corsica, Italy, Albania, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, North Korea, and Japan. Gava, Many of the titles come from writers and poets from the country I've depicted. In an interesting coincidence, an acquaintance of mine, age 21, has spent this past summer walking across Asia through some of the same territory. Hanibal Taubes' very interesting blog can be seen at twosmall.ipower.com/blog. I'm not sure where my virtual trip around the world will end up, but it has been an interesting experiment so far.
|  All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams - 2011 - Charcoal, ink, and acrylic - 18" x 24" Kirkovo, Bulgaria. Title from a work by from Bulgarian writer Elias Canetti (1905–1944).  The Five Wise Men and the Master of Amusements - 2011 - Oil and ink on panel - 12" x 16" Tirane, Albania  Shivering Denizens of His Mad Realm - 2011 - Acrylic and ink on panel - 12" x 16" Kyongsong, North Korea  The Last Silent Monster of the Caspian Sea - 2011 - Acrylic and ink on panel - 12" x 16" Bekdash-Turkmenistan  Too Much Sanity May Be Madness - 2011 - Charcoal, acrylic, and ink on Arches mounted on board - 10" x 14" Riots of Barcelona, Spain, 2011. Title from a work by Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616).  Those Things Over There Are Not Giants but Windmills - 2011 - Monotype - 10" x 14" Retortillo de Soria, Spain. Title from a quote by Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616).  The Wind Was Howling Like a Shaman - 2011 - Monotype - 14" x 10" At Bashi, Kyrgyzstan. Title from a work by Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov (1928–2008).  The Dawn Star Rises Up and Shines Out Between Two Seas - 2011 - Ink on paper - 10" x 14" Akhaltsikhe, Georgia. Title from the Georgian National Anthem, David Magradze (b. 1962), Poet Laureate of Georgia.  The Other Side of the World -- Gava, Kyrgyzstan - 2011 - Charcoal, acrylic, and ink on Arches mounted on board - 9" x 12" If you live in the New Haven area and were to dig a hole in your backyard straight through to the other side of the world along our latitude, you would end up not in China but rather in Gava, Kyrgyzstan. [Since I first wrote that, I realized I am wrong about the geography. The other side of the world is in China, just south of the Gobi Desert. Math is not my strong suit.] |
Artist Bio
B.A., College of William and Mary, Painting and Printmaking
M.F.A., Brooklyn College, Painting and Drawing
Additional Information
New Haven Open Studios 2007-2011