After fifty plus
years of international surfing, Steven Valiere doesn’t just know his subject
matter-he’s lived
it every day of his life. A self-schooled artist with very little formal
training,
Steven works in
acrylics to create bold, multi-layered surfscapes celebrating the joy of
carving
fades, gouging
bottom turns, deep tube rides and sweeping aerials, done with the grace
of a Balinese
dancer. In Valiere’s mythical paradise of no contest, surf camps, or wet
suits,
aborigines surf in
a dream world-The Art of Surfing.
As a teenager in
Southern California during the sixties, surfing was the driving force,
rock ‘n roll the
heartbeat and art the soul that shaped Steven Valiere’s world.
The North Shore of
Oahu and Maui in the fall and winter of 1970 opened his mind
and eyes. The new
places and faces stimulated a curiosity to expand his horizon.
In early 1972 he
boarded a plane to Peru, promising to return to college in a year
but Stevens education was taking a different
path. Valiere’s odyssey took him to
some of the worlds
most remote spots in an extraordinary adventure that most
surfers only dream
of. From Peru to Brazil, South Africa, Australia, Indonesia,
Fiji and uncharted
villages of Papua New Guinea, Steven has surfed virgin tubes
of no name and no
end.
Steven’s work will be exhibited in
the Hall at ARTS in the VILLE over Labour Weekend
October 26th-28th
2019.
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