Val Sears is a Toronto based artist born in Oshawa, Ontario. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art from OCAD University in 2012 and was selected to receive the David W. Bain award for her thesis series This Place Then. Later that year she received the title of Best Student Painter at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition.
Sears’ landed her first solo show, In Passing, in 2013, and has since continued to exhibit within Toronto and the surrounding area. Although she works in various mediums, painting is her primary focus as she continues to explore processes to depict memory and the everyday.
“Through my paintings, I investigate the reliance we have on accustomed environments, and how the inevitable changes taking place upon the land alter our sense of place within the social landscape. As a reference to time, my source material consists of my own analog photographs. By combing these photographs with an interpretation of the current condition of the North American landscape, I construct surfaces that represent a transitory place, both within the mind and upon the land. “
Work Available at Alison Milne Gallery via www.alisonmilne.com/gallery/artists/val-sears
Upcoming Shows via https://www.theougallery.com/air-artist-profiles/2018/10/1/val-sears-toronto