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Claudia Valenti – The Other Room

Carol Schlosberg Gallery

February 3 - March 15

Artist Reception, Tuesday, February 4, 5–7pm

Claudia Valenti’s paintings, drawings, and prints use magical realism to explore memory, loss, comfort, identity, and the psychological contents of home.

The Other Room sets loose real and mythic animals in a nocturnal home whose human occupants may be asleep. The animals move through liminal spaces, turning through hallways, doorways, and hearths as shadows and ghostly hands reach from them and toward them. The animal guides in The Other Room navigate grief, search for and reject comfort, examine archetypal objects of nostalgia, and investigate quiet histories before sunrise.

Claudia Valenti (b. 1994) is a multidisciplinary artist who works in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramic sculpture, and book arts. She received a BFA in painting and drawing from Montserrat College of Art and an MFA in interdisciplinary arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited across the East Coast and internationally. She has received grants for her work in art and research from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Fine Arts Venture Fund, the San Juan Preservation Trust for a residency in the San Juan Islands, WA, and most recently, from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for her research on the semiotic use of animals in Japanese art and architecture, culminating in a residency in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan.

Valenti lives, works, and teaches north of Boston.

Featured Image:
The Hungry Place, 2024
Graphite on paper
14.5” x 21”

Drawing of a jackalope hopping past a wired telephone