Denny Dimin Gallery New York & Tribeca Gallery Walk
Please join us this Saturday, May 8th, 12-7pm for a Tribeca Gallery Walk! An interactive map of participating galleries can be viewed at this link. ON VIEW Amanda Valdez Gratitude April 2 - May 15, 2021 For over a decade, Amanda Valdez has incorporated quilting, sewing, and painting into colorful abstract paintings. The artist begins with small scale drawings as a way of “dislodging” ideas and experiences onto the paper. Her shapes emerge from many of her personal experiences including motherhood, growth, running, travel, and relationships. Then, utilizing both hand dyed and commercially sourced fabrics, Valdez sews the shaped panels of fabric into the canvas before stretching it over the frame. Approaching each work differently, she continues the painting with a unique combination of oil stick, gouache, acrylic, and embroidery. Valdez’s new work introduces weaving as an element in the paintings. The process of weaving enables a further assertion of her own hand