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Currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, Valerie received her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA before traveling to Japan as a Fulbright Fellow in Ceramics/Art History. After completing her MFA studies at Kanazawa College of Art as a Japanese Government Scholar, Valerie spent three years on a city-sponsored residency at the Utatsuyama Craft Workshop in Kanazawa, Japan.
Historically associated with luxury, Valerie utilizes porcelain for its implicit emphasis on fragility, preciousness, luminosity, and ability to retain fine details--qualities prized by the industrial, mass-production community. Soft porcelain yields and responds, documenting each plastic manipulation and recording the tactile circumstance of its construction.
Valerie Zimany
Bud vase
porcelain
$25.00
cups
porcelain, fine silver
$35.00 each
vase
silk screen decals on porcelain
$40.00 each
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