Valerie Seligsohn Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1942 - d. 2012

Valerie Jesraly Seligsohn is an accomplished painter of landscape and still life subjects. She is the recipient of 2 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants, a residency from the Vermont Studio Center and a commendation award from the PennDesign Alumni Association at University of Pennsylvania. She is now Regional Director for the organization where she has been Vice President for two years and a board member since 1994. Her work has been in 15 solo exhibitions, over 25 juried exhibitions and she is preparing for a future show in 2005 in Winter Park, Florida.
She is presently adjunct associate professor of art at Daytona Beach Community College after serving as art department head and professor at Community College of Philadelphia for thirty years.

Valerie divides her time between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Ponce Inlet, Florida. She has active studios in both locations. Her work is in numerous public collections including Wachovia Bank, GlaxoSmithKline Corporation, Burlington Industries, the Herbert Johnson Museum in Ithaca, New York, Blue Cross of Philadelphia, and the Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, Delaware as well as Cornell University and Yale University. Her most recent commission was in 2002 installed in the Rita J. Kaplan Breast Imaging Center at Bellevue Hospital, New York City. The painting, “Lake of Life”, oil and acrylic is 96”x36”, a landscape based on the lake view from the Kaplan estate in Pike County, Pennsylvania. Valerie Seligsohn also served as a member of the College of Architecture, Art & Planning Advisory Council at Cornell University from 1988 to 1993. In 1994 her work was exhibited in retrospective tracing her painting career from 1964-1994 also at Cornell. Recently she participated in an exhibition and panel program at Cornell in June, 2004. Having recently been one of the featured artists in the invitational exhibition, "Vessels, Containers of Life" at the Ormand Memorial Museum and Gardens in Ormand Beach, Florida (OMAM), she is now preparing for a solo exhibition scheduled at the Art League of Daytona Beach for February, 2006; recently she was the award judge for the Trustees Exhibition of this great Florida institution. She will be continuing her work as Central Florida Director for PennDesign Alumni Association, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Visionary Landscape and Still Life

My work focuses on the communication of sensation while observing a landscape or a still life arrangement. Both in the northeastern mountain region of Pennsylvania and in the central region of Florida, in landscape and still life I record the visual experience with paintings, collages and drawings. In my studios located in Pennsylvania and in Florida, what has evolved is imagery that evokes a sensory, ephemeral feeling rather than a photographic recollection.Toward this purpose, an interplay takes place between the perceptual analysis of the subject and my intuitive response to it. During the creative process the color ground is gradually articulated with lines and shapes. The process continues until fruition, culminating in a visionary landscape or visionary still life work of art.