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Bio: Valeri Larko's urban landscape paintings reflect her ongoing fascination with overlooked areas on the fringes of the city. Larko finds both beauty and pathos at this intersection of urban culture and nature that reflect how we, as a society, have altered and continue to alter the environment. All of her paintings are painted on location. She returns many times to the same site while working on a painting, which can take her up to three months to complete. Valeri Larko was educated at the Du Cret School of the Arts, Plainfield, NJ and the Arts Students League, New York City. Solo exhibitions include The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, The Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ , The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, Safe-T-Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Bronx River Art Center, NY, the Bronx Borough President’s Office, NY, College of New Rochelle, NY and the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ. Other notable exhibitions include ACA Galleries, New York City, Jersey City Museum, NJ, the Katonah Art Museum, NY, Aljira, a center for contemporary art, Newark NJ and The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. Awards include a grant from the George Sugarman Foundation, a Strategic Opportunity Grant from New York Foundation for the Arts, a painting fellowship from New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and an artist residency at the Newark Museum. NJ. In 2001 she was awarded a major mural commission from New Jersey Transit and the New Jersey State Council for the Arts for the Secaucus Transfer Station where four of her murals are permanently on display in the North mezzanine. Larko currently teaches painting classes at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit and has taught landscape painting workshops in Italy, France, Spain, Mexico and the United States.
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