Laurence de Valmy
Laurence de Valmy (born 1974) is a French-American artist based in the United States. She has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows in art galleries, art fairs and institutions. De Valmy is a painter and her work reflects on the links between art history and social media.[1] Laurence de Valmy currently lives and works in Philadelphia (PA), USA.[2]
Biography[edit]
De Valmy studied art in France in private studios and in the US and started to actively exhibit her work in 2005, in France. Her early work were in the style of contemporary realism[3].
In 2016, she created a series titled POST, in which she revisits art history through anachronistic Instagram post. She appropriates a famous artword, re created in acrylics, with dialogs based on the story of the artist.[4] This series is appropriation art and can be labeled as conceptual art as well as pop art.[5][6][7]
In 2017, she was awarded an Artist residency by the Eileen Kaminski Foundation at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ. [8]She got gallery representation at the end of her residency and was exhibited at Miami Art Basel week in SCOPE Art fair, in December 2017.[9]
In 2018, De Valmy was exhibited at the Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art in Munich in the BUNTE Art exhibition alongside the artwork Magazine and History by Andy Warhol and German contemporary artists.[10] [11][12]As a Philadelphia artist, she was invited to a group exhibition at the Barnes Foundation.
She is supporting the awareness around gender equality: in 2019 she was a guest artist of the event Museum Week to support Women in Culture and in 2020 she collaborated with Art Girl Rising, a platform supporting women artists.[13][14][15]
In June 2020, her work was in the exhibition CONCEPT 2020 at the CICA Museum in South Korea and her artwork now belongs to their permanent collection.[5]
Exhibitions[edit]
Selected Solo exhibitions[edit]
- POST, Michele Mariaud Gallery, NYC curated by Michele Mariaud (2019)
- French Reflections, FIAF Montclair, NJ, curated by Marie-Catherine Glaser (2016)
- Colorful still life, L'Ebouillante Gallery, Paris, France (2012)
Selected group exhibitions[edit]
- A Taste of Summer, Kahn Gallery, London, curated by Geraldine Hassler (2020)
- SolidArty, Sothebys Institute, London, curated by Amira Gad and Emily Butler (2020)
- Concept 2020, CICA Museum, Seoul, South Korea (2020)
- Couleurs intemporelles, Range of Arts, Honfleur (2020)
- Group Show, Kahn Gallery, London, curated by Geraldine Hassler (2020)[16]
- Lost in Abstraction, Kahn Gallery, London, curated by Geraldine Hassler (2019)
- BUNTE Art, Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich (2018)
- Let's Connect, Barnes Foundation (2018)
- Stranger than Fiction, BG Gallery, Santa Monica (2017)
- Dialogue, AZART Gallery, New York, curated by Latifa Metheny (2017)[17]
- Wrap Around 13, ARENA Gallery, New York, curated by Renée Riccardo (2017)
- Open Studio, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City (2017)
Collections[edit]
- CICA Museum, South Korea[not in citation given]
- Eileen Kaminski Family Foundation, USA[18]
- Hubert Burda Media, Germany[not in citation given]
- CM Collection, Germany[19][dubious ]
- Vinik Family[not in citation given]
References[edit]
- ↑ Gural, Natasha. "'Dream Come True' For Tech Savvy French Artist Discovered By London, New York Galleries On Instagram". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "Rencontre avec l'artiste Laurence de Valmy qui réinterprète des classiques de l'art: version Instagram". Ici Londres (in français). Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "Vienna Kim in Conversation with Laurence de Valmy". MADE IN BED. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ Estape, Taylor (2018-02-15). "What if History's Most Famous Artists Had Instagram? Ask Laurence de Valmy". Miami New Times. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "À quoi ressemblerait le monde de l'art si les grands artistes avaient eu accès à Instagram ?". Troisième galerie (in français). Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ Guelz, Axelle de (2020-04-15). "Laurence de Valmy peint Instagram". unik. art magazine (in français). Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "'What if Instagram had Always Existed?': A Profile on Artist Laurence de Valmy". Create! Magazine. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ France-Amérique (2017-04-27). "The U.S. Residencies Drawing French Artists". France-Amérique. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ Durieu, Grégory (2017-12-06). "Pour ces artistes français, le baptême du feu de Miami Art Week". French Morning US (in français). Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "Laurence de Valmy". Blanc Magazine. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "BUNTE Art: Die Highlights der schillernden Eröffnung". BUNTE.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "Après New York et Munich, Laurence de Valmy expose enfin à Londres". lepetitjournal.com (in français). Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "Artists in the time of Coronavirus, an ongoing virtual exhibition, Part 12". Artblog. 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ Gomez, Sergio (2020-03-03). "Art Girl Rising + Laurence de Valmy = Women in Art". Amplified Art Network. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "Episode 89: Laurence de Valmy: #StoriesBehindtheArt". Beyond the Paint with Bernadine. 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "Kahn Gallery célèbre les artistes français et britanniques". Ici Londres (in français). Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "French contemporary art in the spotlight in Chelsea". French Quarter Magazine. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
- ↑ "eduoardmanet". Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation.
- ↑ "CM Collection". artland.com.
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