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Valeska Soares

Valeska Soares Artists Alexander Gray Associates

Valeska Soares (b.1957) was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and from a young age, she was exposed to references from a variety of cultural milieus, including poetry, literature, film, psychology, and mythology. She studied architecture at Universidade Santa Úrsula, Rio de Janiero; this training reinforced an interest in site specificity, with artworks that consider both contextual history and ...

Valeska Soares

Valeska Soares (born in 1957 in Belo Horizonte, MG) is a Brooklyn based Brazilian sculptor and installation artist.. Her sculptures and installations utilize a wide range of materials—including reflective mirrors, antique books and furniture, chiseled marble, bottles of perfume—and draw on both her training in architecture and the tools of minimalism and conceptualism.

Neither Here Nor There Valeska Soares Exhibitions

Alexander Gray Associates presented Neither Here Nor There, Valeska Soares' first exhibition with the Gallery. The artist, who has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 1992, has maintained deep connections to her native Brazil while positioning herself in New York’s multi faceted art scene. With the works on view in the exhibition, Soares re interpreted the neutral gallery spaces as domestic ...

Valeska Soares | Daros Latinamerica Collection

Valeska Soares. Projeto visualidades contemporâneas. Exhibition brochure, Galeria Vicente do Rego Monteiro, Instituto de Cultura da Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, October 17 December 1, 2002, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Centro Dragão do Mar de Arte e Cultura, Dortaleza, May 23 June 29, 2003.

Creativity and Sin Valeska Soares

Valeska Soares pursues the creative possibilities of what lies beyond accepted norms. Through her artistic practice she challenges boundaries, undermines traditional systems of power, and proposes alternatives to established narratives. Her work creates a world of constant oppositions and open ended propositions