Artists Registry

Valerie Constantino

Sacramento CA United States

http://www.valerieconstantino.net
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My work develops across a terrain of material elements and manipulations, visual and atmospheric renderings, and performative dispositions and texts. Seminal studies in textiles and contemporary mutable forms with found and reconfigured objects engendered my interest in the subject of materiality itself. Explorations regarding the essence of substantive form, its actualization, alteration, degradation, and dissolution are central to my creative practice.

The talismanic meanings of things and events in tandem with a broad study of materiality are key. These subjects remain for me the most apt poetic agent in relation to human and global conditions.

The work entitled Pelt / Rabbit, which I have submitted to the 9/11 Memorial Museum website, was generated through just such an exploration as well as in response to having witnessed the destruction of the World Trade Center towers. Included here are two images of the Pelt and one of the Rabbit drawing.

val_cc@ymail.com
www.valeriecontantino.net
Education
1991, MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1989, BFA, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1981-82, The Banff Center School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Selected Exhibitions, Installations, Performances
2010, Robes, invitational, Maloney Art Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
2010, My Liquid Self, juried film screening in conjunction with The Water Project, The Screening Room, Tucson, AZ
2008, house with song, one-person exhibition, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2008, Contemporary Forum Grantees, invitational, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2005, Valerie Constantino, Rainer Gross, Susan Schwalb, Graficas, Tucson, AZ
2005, My Voice in the desert: a performative reading, Raices Taller Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2005, Valerie Constantino, Travis Glaab, Ken Rosenthal, Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2005, Arizona Biennial, juried, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2005, Woman, Women, Mujer: Voces y Visiones, invitational, Raices Taller Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2002, Pelt/Rabbit,one-person exhibition, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ2002, Valerie Constantino: Sough Beneath the Flame, one-person exhibition, Philip Alan Gallery, New York, NY
2001, The Irrational Qualities of Substance, performance, Philip Alan Gallery, New York, NY
2001, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, invitational, Galerie Caduta Sassi, Munich, Germany
2000, Sine Materia, one-person exhibition/performance, Third Street Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
1999, My Liquid Self, one-person exhibition/performance, Galerie Caduta Sassi, Munich, Germany
1999, Transubstantiation: Particle Shift, juried installation in conjunction with Installing Nature: Manifestations of Time, Parson's School of Design, New York, NY
Professional Activities: Teaching, Lecturing
2002- ,Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art and Humanities,Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ
2007-10, Founder/Studio leader, Troops Reports: Art Studio for Disabled Veterans, Southern Arizona Veteran's Administration Health Care System, Tucson, AZ
2007, Lecture: Creativity and Post-traumatic Stress, Tucson Vet Center, Tucson, AZ
2005, Faculty Associate, Department of Art, Three-dimensional Forms in Fibers, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2003, Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2003, Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Tucson Arts Brigade, Tucson, AZ
2001, Visiting Faculty, Department of Fiber and Material Studies, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2001, Visiting Artist/Lecturer, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2001, Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
1998, Lecturer, The Textile is the Text, in conjunction with Symposium: Women, Art and Change, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1996-97, Faculty Associate, Fibers Department, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1994, Lecturer/Curator: Threadlore, (with accompanying exhibition and published text), The New York Open Center, New York, NY
1994, Moderator: The Nature of Beauty in Contemporary Art, with panelists: Gilah Hirsch, Suzi Gablik and David Humphries, The New York Open Center, New York, NY
Related Professional Activities
2009, Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop, Tucson, AZ
2006, Designer/Editorial Assistant, Janice Gordon, New York, NY
2000-02, Research/Editorial Assistant, Eleanor Munro, Art Historian/Critic, New York, NY
1996-2002, Research/Editorial Assistant, Lenore Tawney Associates, New York, NY
1996, Co-curator, In Honor of Tibet, group exhibition, Donahue Sosinski Gallery, New York, NY
1995, Designer, The Owl Answers by Adrienne Kennedy, Thomas Ross, director, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, New York, NY
1992-94, Gallery Director/Events Coordinator, The New York Open Center, New York, NY
Selected Awards / Honors
2008, Professional Development Grant, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2008, Artist's Residency, Brisons Veor, Cornwall, England
2008, Artist's Grant for house with song, Tucson Pima Arts Council, Tucson, AZ
2007, Artist's Grant, Contemporary Forum, The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2005, Artist's Grant, for My voice in the desert, Tucson Pima Arts Council, Tucson, AZ
1995, Empire State Crafts Alliance, Research and Writing Grant for writing / publication: Textile: An Event in Time, Fiberarts Magazine
1994, The Betty Parks Publishing Award for writing / publication: Threadlore, Surface Design Journal
1989-91, Two-year full merit scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL1989, B.F.A. with Honors, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1989, The Inter-Arts Council Grant, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1985, The Leighton Artists Colony Fellowship, The Banff Center School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, CANADA