Valerie Salem
Artist Painter
Contemporary Art

Trained at the École des Beaux-Arts de la Glacière in Paris, I have had the opportunity to exhibit at the Salon d’Automne, Art Capital at the Grand Palais, Réalités Nouvelles, and in numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Taylor Foundation.
My work has also been shown internationally — in China, Toronto, Los Angeles, and soon Tokyo in mid-2025.

Rooted in lyrical abstraction, my painting explores the intensity of emotion through color, nuance, and texture. Each canvas invites immersion — a dialogue between inner vision and viewer perception.
Inspired by poetry, literature, and the great masters (Soulages, Richter, Twombly, Kiefer…), I seek to create works where matter and light converge — between balance and dissonance, energy and stillness.

Working primarily with acrylics, pigments, and oil pastels, I shape a sensory abstraction, where color becomes language. My aim is to infuse each piece with a unique vibration, resonating in both space and emotion.

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My quest for the absolute compels me to begin agin and again - until my very last breath