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Valerie Perreault is a visual artist and published poet. She grew up in the Chicago suburbs and lives now in Key Largo, Florida.
Valerie is interested in using the creation process to explore and reflect on the visual poetry of her life and landscape. The process reveals the meaning. It is her hope that her work «feels» like a poem—that it both informs and delights the viewer while creating a sense of rediscovering a memory.
Her work lives in private collections across the globe and has been featured in GOOP, Hia Magazine, Buzzfeed and PBS Art Loft, among others. She also has permanent installations in several high-end resorts and public spaces including Tommie Austin, Intercontinental Miami, Casa Marina Resort Key West, Hotel St. Elm, Hawks Cay Resort, the Port of San Diego, Parkline Miami and Kea Lani, Maui.
What Inspires Me:
I am inspired by the ordinary moments in time. I feel that if you look at something long enough its beauty and essence will reveal itself. That revelation is the entry point for all of my works.
My Creative Process:
I like to work in batches, often completing collections in groups of 12. I will spend a few months collecting moments by writing about them in my journal. Once I feel ready I will associate colors and shapes with each moment , painting them out on large sheets of canvas paper. Those sheets are then cut up in to little squares that I call "tiles". Then the fun part, I tinker around with the tiles for days rearranging them like a puzzle until the piece feels complete.
Artists That Have Influenced My Work:
Hilma af Klint, David Hockney, Lucie Brock-Broido, Carmen Herrera, Geta Brătescu, Cecil Touchon
Where I Go For Inspiration:
I go to my journal for inspiration. I keep a written record of small but meaningful moments and/or objects that I come across throughout each day. When it comes time to create, I open my journal and see which memories feel ready to be made.
Selected Clients / Lectures / Publications / Partnerships
• Permanent Installation, Casa Marina Resort, Key West, FL
• Permanent Installation, Intercontinental Miami
• Permanent Installation, The Summit Club, Las Vegas, NV
• Permanent Installation, Evermore Conrad Resort, Orlando, FL
• Collaboration, NFP, Florida Bay Forever
• Partnership, Hotel St. Elm, Dallas, TX
• Partnership, Tommie Austin, Austin, TX
• Permanent Installation, Hawk’s Cay Resort, Duck Key, FL
• Permanent Installation, Port of San Diego, Sand Diego, CA
• Speaker, Sotheby’s “Artists of the Florida Keys” • Partnership, Kea Lani Resort, Maui, HI
• Feat. Atlanta Mag. “Keys to the Keys” • Feat. PBS Art Loft 2017 & 2019
• Feat. Miami’s “Culture Crusaders”
• Feat. GOOP “Florida Keys Special
LATEST
2023
Solo Show
“Fragments from the Island Haze”
New Studio for the Visual Arts, Jupiter, Florida
Solo Show
“Island Déjà vu”
Roberto Russell Galleries, Islamorada, Florida
Group Show
Superfine! Art Fair
Miami, Florida
2022
Group Show
The Other Art Fair, Presented by Saatchi Art
Virtual Editions
Solo
Show
“Fragments from the Island Haze”
New
Studio for the Visual Arts, Jupiter,
Florida
Group
Show
“Personal Structures”
ECC, Venice, Italy
2021
Solo Show
"Tropi-Soul"
Portside Gallery, Islamorada, Florida
Group
Show
“Dazzling Horizons”
The Historic Gato Building, Key West, Florida
2020
Solo Show
Roberto Russell Gallery
Islamorada, Florida
Solo Show
Portside Gallery
Islamorada, Florida
Collaboration
Kevin Barry Fine Art
Santa Monica, California
Online
2019
Saatchi Art The Other Art Fair
Brooklyn, New York
2017 - 2020
Resident, Morada Way Arts and Cultural District
Islamorada, Florida
