Color in relation to objects suspends shapes present in this environment. An abstract rendering of a room rearranged to make space for engaging the imagination. One is transported into a surreal dream-like space where shapes cross paths dancing as a balancing act, allowing the subtle vibrancy of their interaction, while confined in this room, to take precedence over reality. A visual interpretation of an in-between dream space is revealed. A sublime state normally suppressed in one's dreamworld, is captured and an ephemeral moment becomes infinite, as it's contained in print.

About Conie Vallese

Growing up in Argentina, immersed in a family that often expressed themselves through creative endeavors, art became a part of my identity and expression. Reminisces of Buenos Aires’ architecture and its color palettes, it’s shapes and forms, influence my aesthetic and are vital to my approach in painting. My Latin American influences are ever present. The geometry of the landscape, both urban and rural, as well as the culture at large, influence me in both overt and subtle ways.

The significance of the work I engage in is difficult to assess, but I recognize a nostalgia for certain elements: the simplicity of a domestic life, memories of interiors and exteriors, nature, imaginary landscapes and corporeal forms, both sculptural and abstracted. These qualities of my past contextualize and materialize the personal, and emotional, contexts from which they arise.

My practice constantly moves within ambiguities, oppositions and resolutions that I embrace and relocate. Ultimately, the new works which emerge push the themes I am familiar with into further possibilities. It is a process that continues to fascinate me.

Conie Vallese