Sarah Valeri

About

b. 1975   —   Sarah Valeri is a painter and art therapist living and working in Brooklyn, NY since receiving her MA in Art Therapy from NYU in 2006. Since then she has exhibited locally and internationally, most recently sharing paintings in a solo exhibition, Soy solo una vela ahora at Museo Exconvento de Tiripetío in Michoacán, Mexico in 2017, and paper and drawing installations at the Festival de Guitarra Paracho in 2018. Torn drawing installations and paintings both hold together scattered and reconfigured pieces through movements and air rather than solid joints. Intensity of both color and a wide spectrum of light and absence create fluctuating forms of power and transformation from one element to another. In 2019 and 2020 she participated in residencies at the Trestle Art Space in Brooklyn and The Studios at Mass MoCA respectively. In both of these spaces landscape and environment entered more explicitly into her work, bringing along with them a few new talisman figures. Currently she is in the certificate program at the New York Studio School, focusing on color studies in painting.