Secret Language 3 by Valerie Roybal
8"x10" ($20) | 11"x14" ($50) | 16"x20" ($200)

Well-being 2 by Valerie Roybal
8"x10" ($20) | 11"x14" ($50) | 16"x20" ($200)

Rainy Thursday greetings from NYC, my collector friends! I'm glad to be back home and have been enjoying some quality time with the best mutt in the universe, Ollie Otter. I've got lots to catch up on and look forward to, so today's introduction will be brief and constructed from recycled ingredients. It's an approach befitting the work of southwestern artist Valerie Roybal, who is herself a scavenger of bits and pieces with a brilliant talent for assembling them just so.

Secret Language 3 and Well-being 2 have much in common with our first edition from Valerie, Secret Language 1. When introducing that edition, here's what I had to say:

Valerie's choice of materials for the Secret Language series speaks to my bookish tendencies, my penchant for wandering through thrift stores and flea markets, and my predilection for proper penmanship. (Alliteration alert!) Aside from the obvious visual allure of her layered constructions, their texture and presence ignite other senses and memories that I fondly associate with all these activities. The snippets of fine calligraphy remind me of lazy comfort of curling up with a well-worn copy of Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice. Her color palette wanders across the entire range of shades I find so appealing in the vintage items that always catch my eye, whether they're water-stained snapshots or fire-red Pyrex bowls, happily transporting me to the cluttered chaos of an upstate Salvation Army, with creaky floorboards, dusty air and undiscovered treasures.

Such nice memories to spend time with! Not to sound like a cheeseball, but that's one of the things I most enjoy about living with art. Everything that I have on my walls is the seed for some sort of story or memory, giving me ample opportunity to indulge in some escapism. My here and now is pretty great, but it's nice to be able to go elsewhere once in a while.

It's also pretty great to come home again, and I'm going to be sure to make the most of it since I won't be here for long. As mentioned previously, April is a busy month! One of the month's highlights is sure to be the San Francisco 20x200 Collectors Confab, hosted by the fine folks at Chronicle Books. I'll be back next week with more details on that event, and more great art. See you then.

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