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2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Valerie Marek
artistCanton Ohio 44735 United States
Bio
Valerie Marek received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from Kent State University in 2017. She has also taught Foundations Drawing at Kent State University’s Center for Visual Art.
She has exhibited at the Artist’s Living Room in NYC, Oak Park Art League in Chicago, The Cleveland Institute of Art, The Wasmer Gallery at Ursuline College in Cleveland, Yellowstone Art Museum in Montana, Malone University in Canton, Ohio, The Summit Art Space in Akron, as well as the Prama Gallery in Cleveland.
Her abstract environments, primarily on paper, depict the aura of place and history, an overlapping of tense invested in revelation, rather than realization.
Artist Statement
The Aura of Place
I am interested in the invisible and its deception. Every day is a new way to understand our shadows. I seek to transform the real world not by scraps of precarious forms, but by faith inducing indices. My abstract landscapes seek to reconcile the ineffable, which invites the viewer to realize their own impression of place and how they fit in, despite any fragility, which does not arrange silence, only embraces it.