Valentine Nazarian Wolly
May 2010
Flipped
Reflection, repetition and pattern are central themes in Flipped, a new series of paintings by Valentine Wolly. Examining the way in which reflected surfaces often play tricks with our sense of the “real” world and the “other” world created by these surfaces, Wolly hones her techniques to create images from natural distortions that could be mistaken for the work of a surrealist or Photoshop expert.
The works featured in Flipped draw the viewer into an ambiguous space where all manner of faces, figures, structures, and objects appear, dissolve, reshape and reappear somewhere else. In this shifting universe of real and surreal impressions, questions of what’s up, what’s down, what’s in and what’s out are all a matter of vantage.
Visit Wolly’s website at www.valentinewolly.com.