Constance Vallis
- View full screen
- Home
-
“The secret of seeing is, then, the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I would stagger barefoot across a hundred deserts after any lunatic at all. But although the pearl may be found, it may not be sought. The literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most practiced and adept, a gift and a total surprise… I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The inner world is the world of your requirements and your energies and your structure and your possibilities that meets the outer world. And the outer world is the field of your incarnation. That’s where you are. You’ve got to keep both going. As Novalis said, 'The seat of the soul is there where the inner and outer worlds meet.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Education
New York University, New York, NY, M.A., Art History
Columbia University, New York, NY, B.A., Art History
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Candidate B.F.A.
Exhibitions
Quarry Art, group exhibition, photography, Cape Ann Museum,
Janet & William Ellery Center at the Green, Gloucester, MA
Color: Juror, Wickford Art Association, Wickford, RI
Waxing, Now Waning Pandemic: online-juried encaustic exhibition, Castle Hill for the Arts, Truro, MA
Outside@Manship, online exhibition, Manship Residency + Studios, Gloucester, MA
The Cultural Center at Rocky Neck, Gloucester, MA
- Artist member, Salted Cod ArtHouse Gallery, MA
- Artist member, Gallery 53, Gloucester, MA
- Fresh
- North Shore Prints
- Printed, Painted, Folded, Torn
Red Brick Open Studio, Beverly, MA
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
- Annual Honolulu Printmakers Exhibition
- Honolulu Printmakers @ The Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design
Louis Pohl Gallery, Honolulu Printmakers, Honolulu, HI
The Arts at Marks Garage, Honolulu, HI
Museum Collections
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI
The Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, Honolulu, HI
Internships
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Textile Conservation Department, New York, NY
The Drawing Center, New York, NY
New York University, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Memberships
Goetemann Artist Residency Committee, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA
Exhibitions Committee, Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA
Trustee, Honolulu Printmakers, Honolulu, HI
Trustee, Marblehead, Historical Society, Marblehead, MA
