2023 Spring Art Release
March 16th thru April 16th, 2023
The Faded Line Between Dream and Reality
The Faded Line Between Dream and Reality leads the viewer through 12 works that each tell a story of inward and outward spiritual and emotional growth and balancing a faded line between dream and reality, allowing a peek at Valenti’s lush world of voluptuous figures, an homage to unrepresented body types, her fascination with painting beauty not perfection, and her signature use of lush foliage.
Valenti continues to demonstrate her fixation with the human form, dramatic light sources and introduces a freer use of brighter pops of color into her signature color palette. She introduces a new set of characters into her world of self-portraiture, continuing her mission of painting bodies that “look like mine” She continues to paint the ambiguous face and focuses all her attention on the body-creating a looking glass for viewers to see themselves in the brush strokes.
See the entire Faded Line Between Dream and Reality Collection
“Elisa’s compositions, a seemingly otherworldly spectre tenderly embraces or casts its loving presence down upon her female figures, sweeping the viewer away to a slightly bittersweet place of nurturing serenity. Other sun-dappled figures are gloriously elevated, not merely due to the light which takes their natural beauty to new heights of loveliness. We see within them the radiance of inner Zen, of being in the moment, and of feeling truly comfortable within their own skin.”
Tears Over a Fallen Tree
(2023) 48 x 72 inch (2 x 48 x 36 inch panel diptych), acrylic on canvas
In her newest series, “The Faded Line Between Dream and Reality”, Valenti offers the beholder even more visual and spiritual food for thought through the introduction of a new muse – filtered illumination.
Like some of like her fellow multi-disciplinary contemporaries, she creates modern classical nude figurative works using acrylic paint - some on canvas, others on paper - as well as various types of charcoal drawings and sculptured clay figures/vessels. She continues dabbling in all sorts of dynamic – and conversely earthy palettes – generally incorporating lush botanical elements, boldly-patterned flourishes, and classic objects d’art that imbue her compositions with diverse aesthetic panache.
Elisa’s compositions, a seemingly otherworldly spectre tenderly embraces or casts its loving presence down upon her female figures, sweeping the viewer away to a slightly bittersweet place of nurturing serenity. Other sun-dappled figures are gloriously elevated, not merely due to the light which takes their natural beauty to new heights of loveliness. We see within them the radiance of inner Zen, of being in the moment, and of feeling truly comfortable within their own skin.
Aside from the obvious eyeball panache of Elisa’s art, it summons universally stirring feelings that really sink into the nooks and crannies of our subconscious. We are all utterly unique, beautifully imperfect works of art that require no justification for our existence. Society can continue to do its best to classify and otherwise call out our purported inadequacies, but we certainly don’t have to listen. No matter our height, weight, sex, creed, or political leanings, we can gaze at Elisa’s images and recognize that validation, self-acceptance and confidence truly come from within
Elizah Leigh, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
My Shadow is Tired of Waiting for Me.
(2023) 40 x 60 inch (40 x 30 inch x 2 panels diptych) , acrylic on canvas,
“In her latest suite of works, “The Faded Line Between Dream and Reality”, Valenti offers the beholder even more visual and spiritual food for thought through the introduction of a new muse – filtered illumination.”
Dust to Shadow and Shadow to Dust
2023, 30 x 40 inch, acrylic on canvas
