Statement  

I am a multidisciplinary artist currently focused on painting and the creation of psychological image stories by marrying abstraction and life study via oil painting using both traditional techniques and intuitive improvisation. This way of working allows for a sense of freedom to play with the characteristics of oil paint in relation to subject by creating transparent layers, and playing that against more opaque and occasionally textured applicative and reductive methods. Themes related to identity, justice (equity/power), and survival heavily influence my work as does the idea of finding connectedness between my mixed ancestral past and present societal issues, and women’s movements in society and the arts and how all that relates to everything I’ve learned about as ‘good’. Like trying to work with traditional ideas of ‘goodness’ and rebellion against that in singular compositions.  

Bio

Valentine Aprile is an American multidisciplinary artist of Indigenous Mexican and European descent currently focusing on painting utilizing her acute understanding of storytelling, movement, and the expressive capabilities of the body and portrait. Her oil paintings are psychological portals marrying abstraction and life study using both traditional techniques and intuitive improvisation. Her slightly ambiguous yet not so comfortable image stories are inspired by world events, observation of human behavior, and life experiences such as growth, justice, and survival..most often searching for hope and connectedness via themes of identity and equity. Her improvisational style of abstraction lends a sense of freedom to her work and takes advantage of the characteristics of oil paint to create transparent layers, then playing that against more opaque and occasionally textured applications.

Valentine Aprile is also a portrait artist. Additionally, she has worked in various forms of dance, stage and site specific performance, video, filmmaking, acting, and directing.

https://www.valentineaprile-artist.com/