Valerie Long
1955 - 2013 ∙ CE artist from 2005 - 2013
Valerie Long worked at Creativity Explored from 2005 until her death in 2013.
Graphite, ink, and marker were her preferred media, and paper her surface of choice; fabric was used for its two-dimensional quality as well. Long worked mostly in black and white, but was not averse to using color. Her work appears abstract but is often based on the structure of everyday objects. Long’s matter-of-fact, relaxed personality complimented her free-flowing forms.
Tireless hatching and pointillist gestures are the definitive aspects of Long's engagement with drawing. She made beautiful translations of crystals into stippled, slanting boxes which, through painstaking and delicate repetition, are extracted from the mineral world and placed in ours of motion and light. In 2010 CB2 chose Long’s work to adorn two pillow designs.
Select Exhibitions & Projects
2011
Fresh Flowers, Sherman Gallery, Boston University College of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Masters, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Black and White and Read All Over, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2010
Ritual/Habitual, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2008
Fibrocosm, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Tasty, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2006
Vessels, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2004
You Are Here, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Functionable, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
Critters, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA