Valerie Maynard

Valerie Maynard's work Polyrhythmics of Consciousness and Light at 125th Street subway station in NYC

Valerie Maynard (born Harlem, 1937[1]) is an African-American sculptor, teacher, printmaker, and designer. She studied painting and drawing at the Museum of Modern Art, printmaking at the New School for Social Research and received a master's degree in Art/Sculpture in 1977[2] at Vermont's Goddard College. She has taught at the Studio Museum in Harlem, at Howard University and at the University of the Virgin Islands.[3] Her work has been exhibited in many cities in the United States and in Sweden.[2] She has received many awards including residencies in Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and New York and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in printmaking.[2] She has been an artist in residence at both the Rochester and Massachusetts Institutes of Technology.[3] She also specializes in preservation and restoration of traditional art by people of color.[2]

She was artist-in-residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem where she was a part of a group exhibition Labor, Love, Live Collection in Context, held November 14, 2007 - March 9, 2008.[4]

In January 1977, she was part of a contingent of hundreds of African-American artists who represented the North American Zone, exhibiting in FESTAC '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria.[5]

Her public art work, "Polyrhythmics of Consciousness and Light" is installed in a subway station on 125th Street in New York City.[1]

Karen Berisford Getty, in a Virginia Commonwealth University thesis, "Searching for Transatlantic Freedom: The Art of Valerie Maynard", examines the history of Africans in the Americas, and Maynard's synthesis of African elements in her work.[6]

In November 2015, she presented at the Art of Justice: Articulating an Ethos and Aesthetic of the Movement conference at New York University presented by the Caribbean Cultural Center-African Diaspora Institute in Collaboration with the Department of Art and Public Policy, New York University; Institute of African American Affairs, New York University and Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia University.[7]

Individual Exhibitions

Valerie Maynard had individual exhibitions at:[8]

Select Group Exhibitions

Valerie Maynard has been in group exhibitions at:[8]

Collections

Valerie Maynard's art is in the following collections:[8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Artwork: Polyrhythmics of Consciousness and Light (Valerie Maynard)". NYC Subway Art Tour. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Valerie Maynard - NYC Department of Cultural Affairs". www.nyc.gov. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  3. 1 2 Farrington, Lisa E. (2005-01-01). Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists. Oxford University Press. p. 272. ISBN 9780195167214.
  4. ↑ "Labor, Love, Live | The Studio Museum in Harlem". www.studiomuseum.org. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  5. ↑ "Festac 77 Contact Sheet #251:... - Festac 77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture | Facebook". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  6. ↑ ""Searching for the Transatlantic Freedom: The Art of Valerie Maynard" by Karen Berisford Getty". scholarscompass.vcu.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  7. ↑ "Save the Date THE ART OF JUSTICE". cccadi.org. Retrieved 2015-11-12.
  8. 1 2 3 Riggs, Thomas (1997). St. James Guide to Black Artists. Detroit, MI: St. James Press. pp. 354–355. ISBN 1558622209.

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