Andrée Valley’s sculptural goals primarily explore abstraction and are based upon perceived chaos and how it is investigated within her works of art. These 3D objects represent her efforts both in organizing randomness and layering components. Some of her sculptures hang on the wall. Other pieces sit on the floor or table or hang freely with swiveled wire and are explorations of randomness, orientation and color. Shape, color, pattern, piling, stacking, and tangling permit the viewing of one form and pattern through another within each of these pieces.
Valley’s artistic interests are wide-ranging. Her career in ceramic sculpture explored ways to achieve color during the medium’s ‘brown-era’. Over time, her ideas about color and space evolved to working in metal, now her primary medium. Other ongoing mediums include working with paper and in the graphic arts as a designer and gallerist.
Valley lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin, and just retired from teaching in the art department at Madison College. She received a BFA from the University of Denver and an MFA from the University of Michigan and spent two years as Artist in Residence at the Archie Bray Foundation.
- Section Sculpture
- Venue Palazzo Mora
- Based in Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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