I have new work!
Entanglements: You Too Are Part of This

Valerie Fowler continues her examination of the natural world with mixed media works on paper and oil paintings large and small. Sinuous lines twist, loop and intertwine, creating entanglements throughout each piece, reminding us that we are indeed all connected and that our fates as humans are mutually bound to one another and to our fragile Earth.

Lydia Street Gallery
1200 E 11th St STE 109, Austin, TX 78702

Opening reception, Saturday May 24, 6-9pm
open weekends 12 -5pm, and by appointment

With an Artist's talk, Saturday May 31, 4pm

Exhibition continues until August 10

AND I have a piece in a super group, all female show:
HOT: The Exhibit
Ground Floor Theater
979 Springdale Rd, Ste 122, Austin, TX 78702

Opening reception, May 4, 2-5pm
May 4 until May 25

Austin Studio Tour 2024

Saturday and Sunday, November 9 and 10, 12-6pm
Open Studio with lots of paintings, prints and drawings on offer.

((Plus, Friday, November 8, we'll open the studio for a casual evening reception and art preview: 6-8pm. Come raise a glass and see what I've been up to all year. All are welcome.))

1211 Ravine Dr
Austin Tx 78704

For city-wide tour details: Big Medium

Suddenly I have work in several venues in Austin and surrounding areas!
In Smithville, Texas, (about a 45 minute drive from Austin)is Habitats, Earth Shifts and Offerings, a compilation of Fifteen paintings selected from four separate bodies of work. Main Gallery Smithville is in a stunning, 100 year old building, beautifully restored, with gracious beautiful old walls and copious natural light. I'm thrilled to see how my artwork beautifully inhabits the space. The art is up now and there will be a reception March 23, 4-7pm and an artist talk at 5:30, 200 Main Street. This show will run through the month of April.

In Austin, I have four pieces on view at Davis Gallery as a guest artist in conjunction with the fabulous Malou Flato solo show. Her work is not to be missed - gorgeous, vibrant and large! And while you're there have a look at my pieces. I think our work plays well together.

And last, but not least, I have a selection of prints available at Austin's Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. I love the venue and its mission. The gardens and grounds are always worth a visit and while you're there you can pop into the gift shop and gallery to see my prints as well as artwork from several other wonderful artists.

Every day is a studio day.

January 25 2024

This is the place on my website where I announce any news - shows I am working towards, press, art tours, etc. But right now all I do, all I am, is art making. I am always working toward a body of work, enough for a show, and linked enough in content that the works hold together and form a cohesive whole. I am at the beginning stage now. There is a through line from my past work that informs the new so that at least I have a thread from which I can weave. Or a thread I can hang onto or from...It's alternatively exciting and unstable, especially if I am being honest. That is where I am now.

Offering: A Balm in a World of Wounds

Opening reception Sept 22, and up through Oct 14, 2023
at Cloud Tree Gallery in Austin, Texas.

Artist Statement:

“Offering: A Balm in a World of Wounds" is an exhibition of oil paintings (both large and small) begun with the painting called “Offering” which is a diptych - a pair of canvases over which is painted a composition of free form symmetry. There are 4 large diptychs in the show. I was thinking about the rhythms, patterns and geometries throughout the plant world and how nothing in nature is perfectly symmetrical but that there are consistent patterns. And also about the imperfect symmetry of human bodies. I became especially concerned with female bodies. This work concerns broken patterns: generational pain and subsequent healing; death, rebirth and regeneration; sacrifice, ceremony, and complicated vulnerability.

The Austin Studio Tour is in full swing:
November 5-20th, 3 weekends:

West Austin: Nov 5 & 6
West & East: Nov 12 & 13
East Austin: Nov 19 & 20

Noon to 6pm all dates.

My studio is West, Tour #174
1211 Ravine Dr 78704
I'd love to share my latest works with you as well as some older pieces and works in progress. Come visit me where I work and play!
For all the details about this city-wide Art event visit Big Medium

And, if you are up for a little road trip, I have several pieces on view in a show in Taylor Texas. "Birdsong in the Anthropocene" , "16 Contemporary Female Artists Explore the Impact of the Human Footprint on the Natural Environment".
The McCrory Timmerman Galleries
112 W. 2nd Street, Taylor Tx 76574

Here's the Facebook page for McCrory Timmerman

Solo show at Lydia Street Gallery, Austin.
Opening Reception Friday, September 23, 6-9pm
Artist Talk Saturday, Oct 8, 2pm
Closing Reception Sunday, October 30, 4-6pm

Opening Reception Friday, February 18, 2022, 6-10pm
at Cloud Tree Studios and Gallery
3411 East 5th St, Austin, Tx 78702
Artist Talk, Sunday March 6, 2pm
with special musical guests Amy Annelle and Brian Beattie
Closing Reception Sunday, March 13, 2-6pm

Earth Shift: She Will Have Her Way with You

This series of large - and small - scale paintings began on an overcast day in 2020, at the start of the pandemic lockdown. I started to paint many of my skies yellow, then gravitated to lots of red — which has an alarming quality, like a warning — and decided against blue. (Blue skies are comforting and I wasn’t feeling it!) As always, my subject is the infinity of nature, seen and unseen, but this work signals a distinct and subtle change, felt, like knees buckling or a slight tremor underfoot. Subtle, but permanent, like aging. A tipping point.

This project is sponsored in part by the Cultural Arts
Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department and the Center for Women and Their Work.

ValerieFowler: Habitats and Pathways has opened! I'm very excited to share this new body of work.

Please use the link below to visit the artwork online, and also, to make an appointment for a private gallery view.

Camiba Art Gallery

Gallery show runs until August 15, 2020.

Gardenias for Katie. Now available from Pomegranate Communications, and note cards too!

Habitats and Pathways is a new body of work. Exhibition scheduled for July of 2020. More news soon!

above image; Our Hero at Her Bath, detail, oil on canvas, 2019

Please Join Us:

Valerie Fowler: The Story of the Deer in the Road, an art exhibition of oil paintings and mixed media works, plus performance, explores the artist's concerns about personal vulnerability and confrontations with mortality as well as threats to human existence in general, all manifested in the form of a deer. The animal, ubiquitous in Texas and throughout the U.S., transgresses into human habitat such that its presence is a constant reminder that its habitat is shrinking and continues to be altered by human civilization. This deer, a female, portrayed in various visions or settings, is, in turns, the protagonist in a story or memory, an omen, or an alter ego to the artist.
CAMIBAart Gallery
6448 Hwy 290 East, Suite A102, Austin, Tx 78723

Exhibition on view Sept 7-28
Opening Reception Saturday, Sept 7, 6-9pm
Plus:
There will be 3 "Crankie" performance dates throughout the run:
- Saturday 9/14 at 1pm
- Saturday 9/21 at 6pm
- Thursday 9/26, at 6pm. (with the extraordinary vocalist Alice Spencer!)
Crankies are 30 foot long narrative drawings that are "cranked" from a scroll, accompanied by live music. Music performed by Brian Beattie (Fowler's husband and frequent collaborator).

Plus! Plus: writer Robin Chotzinoff will respond to the artworks with a reading - timing to be announced.

**All performances are free but seating is limited, please RSVP to
512-937-5921

This project is sponsored in part by the Cultural Arts
Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department and the Center for Women and Their Work.