Valentine has shut it's doors. 

We had a good run. Now it is studio time.

Thank you to all of the artists and visitors that have filled the space with so much positive human spirit. 

Cheers,

Fred Valentine

Valentine is please to present

Paintings and Sculptures 

by

       Rachel Youens 

Scott Williams 

Robert Franca     

Opening Friday May 12

from 6-9

This exhibit runs through 

Sunday June 11

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VALENTINE IS PLEASED TO PRESENT

STEW

STEW

st(y)o͞o

1.    1.

a kettle of a mixed variety of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid.

"She stirred the pot of stew and stepped away to open a can of whoopass"

2.    2.

informal

a state of great anxiety or agitation.

"Our little spinning ball of mud is in one hell of a stew, He said to his grandson before tucking him in."

Tim Spelios, Matt Freedman, Michael Ballou, David Scher, Andrew Moszynski, Michael Chandler, Vince Gargiulo, Jeffrey Allen Price, William Stone

Opening Friday March 31, from 6-9 at Valentine

The exhibit runs through Sunday April 30

581 Woodward Ridgewood, NY 11385

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Valentine

is Pleased to present

Paintings

by Elisa Jensen 

                                                                                      

and Janice Nowinski

Opening Friday

February 17

from

6:00 - 9:00
Closing Sunday March 19

Valentine 

is pleased to present

Mary-Ann Monforton

and 

Lawrence Swan

Opening Friday January 6th.

From 6:00 - 9:00

Closing Sunday February 5th.

Valentine

is pleased to present

"Turn Left At The Blue Fairy Dove Tail Joint”

New work 

by Don Doe

Opening Friday October 28

From 6:00-9:00

This show will run through 

Sunday November 27

Please join us in celebrating 
year 5 at valentine    

with 
new paintings by Fred Escher
and 

sculptures 

by Ron Baron 

opening Friday September 16 from 6:00-9:00

 The exhibit opens Friday September 16 

 and runs through Sunday October 16.

     

Valentine is closed until September 16
when we will open our 5th year with new paintings by Fred Escher and sculptures by Ron Baron. 

Valentine is please to present

“Untitled”

Drawings and other works on paper

by

David Scher and Benji Whalen
 with 
Ben Godward in the garden

Opening Friday April 15 from 6:00-9:00

This exhibit will run through Sunday May 15

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Valentine is pleased to present

Reflections on the Surface

Paintings by Dennis Kardon

Opening Friday March 4, from 6:00 - 9:00
The exhibit runs through Sunday April 3

 Valentine is pleased to present  

OK for Now 

Matt Freedman and Jude Tallichet

 Opening Friday January 15, from 6:00 - 9:00

 The exhibit runs through Sunday February 14

   Please be aware of our new hours and extended run

“All solutions are temporary”

-Anonymous, but everybody seems to say it sooner or later

A lifetime of making a life and art with another person leaves a deep impression on both parties. We are altered by the presence of the other. The scars of our cohabitation become beauty marks, acquired fingerprints that identify us to each other and leave us incompatible with any other person. Nothing is ever settled in any relationship, and everything is up for negotiation, but after awhile a certain understanding is achieved. Lifelong partnerships, those twitchy stalemates with our beloved others, are all too finite, but as long as they do survive they seem to take forever.

OK for Now is a joint installation of sculptures by Matt Freedman and Jude Tallichet, two artists who have spent 30 years deeply involved in each other’s business, rendering their exhibition a kind of conversation of objects between codependents. Using the vertical space of Valentine Gallery to maximum effect, Freedman and Tallichet deploy their pieces at all levels of the cubic volume of the gallery, from the floor to the ceiling, from wall to wall. The two artists have created flimsy support structures that clumsily present the work of the other via the deployment of any number of rickety racks, awkward altars, gimpy gibbets, tippy tripods and frail flagpoles that display and endanger works drawn from the Jude and Matt’s voluminous inventories.  The effort is to embrace and enhance the cherished work of the cherished companion, but the result all too often is to distort and endanger that which is adored. The effect is both tender and highly unstable.  The pieces seem to be at risk, as is any viewer who might edge cautiously through the space.

Of course, there is no danger.   It’s only art, though the effect is real.  The illusion of looming disaster can provoke as authentic an embodied response as the real thing.  That too is art. The really tricky part was surviving long enough to get here.  

Valentine is pleased to present,

Kurt Hoffman

Our Promised Lands

A 50-State Series

Opening Friday Oct.30 from 6:00-9:00
The exhibit runs through Sunday Nov.22

http://pendulous.org/50states/
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Bobbie Oliver                 Valentine is pleased to inaugurate the new space with a                                                                solo exhibition curated with Mary-Ann Monforton.

                                                          Bobbie Oliver Paintings. 

                                                          September 25- October 18, 2015

                                                          Opening Reception Friday, September 25, 6-9 pm

Teal Daylight 68 x 63 2010

VALENTINE

581 Woodward Avenue

Ridgewood NY 11385

718 600 9417 

valentineridgewood@gmail.com

Friday-Sunday from 1-6pm and by appointment                                                          

 Valentine is now closed.

We will reopen at our new location at 581 Woodward Ave. on Friday September 25th. with new and recent paintings by Bobbie Oliver curated with Mary-Ann Monforton. 

It's a bit smaller but the real estate wolf won't be knocking at the door for many years. It is with humble gratitude and appreciation to all who have given me the opportunity to share your work and to all who have visited that I say 

Cheers!

Fred Valentine

Valentine is pleased to present 

               3 WHO 3D

New and Recent Sculptures by

             Michael Ballou, 

           Shari Mendelson 

               Kurt Steger

opening Friday January 9  
from 6:00-9:00

 This exhibit will run through Sunday February 1st

Valentine is pleased to present

4 WHO PAINT

 Peter Acheson, Yevgeniya Baras

Andrew Baron, Gaby Collins- Fernandez

Detail Andrew A

Detail Gaby C F

Detail Peter A

Detail Yevgeniya  B

Opening Friday November 21 from 6:00 -9:00

This exhibit runs through December 21

Valentine will be closed Thanksgiving weekend

VALENTINE 

is pleased to present

new and recent paintings 

by

Jennifer Coates 

and 

Tom Burckhardt

Opening Friday October 17

from 6:00-9:00

with 

Michael Chandler 

and 

Judith Simonian

The exhibit will run through 

Sunday November 9th

Valentine

is pleased to present

new and recent paintings 

by 

 David Brody 

and 

Cindy Tower

with

 Liz Ainslie

and featuring Cathy Diamond in the gift shop

Opening Friday September 12th.

from 6:00 - 9:00

   This exhibit will run through 

  Sunday October 5th.

And now for the kiss of the wind,

And the touch of the air’s soft hands,

With the rest from strife and the heat of life,

With the freedom of lakes and lands.

Excerpt from Paul Laurence Dunbar

IN SUMMER

Valentine is closed for the summer and will reopen September 12 with 

David Brody

Cindy Tower

Liz Ainslie