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Sadie J. Valeri is an internationally recognized still life oil painter. Her meticulously crafted paintings depicting transparent, crumpled wax paper have attracted the highest honors, including the award of First Prize for Still Life in the 2010 ARC International Salon. Her evocative paintings have been featured in many prestigious art publications, including: American Art Collector, American Artist, International Artist, American Painting Video Magazine, Artist’s Magazine, and Southwest Art.
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Raised in Salem, Massachusetts, (b. 1971) Sadie graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration in 1993. For many years she enjoyed a successful career as a graphic designer and website/interface designer.
In 2006 Sadie returned to pursuing fine art exclusively, and very quickly attracted notice for her highly refined layered oil technique.
In pursuit of constantly improving her skills, Sadie has studied with several contemporary masters of realism, including Juliette Aristides, Michael Grimaldi, and Ted Seth Jacobs at Bay Area Classical Artist Atelier; Jacob Collins at the Hudson River Fellowship; and Timothy Stotz and Michelle Tully of Studio Escalier. Sadie also studied Écorché/Anatomy with Andrew Ameral. She was given an introduction to traditional Flemish layered painting technique by Kirstine Reiner.
Travel has been fundamental to Sadie’s development as an artist ever since she lived in Paris for six months as an art student attending Parsons Paris in 1992. Since then she has traveled to Greece and Italy, in addition to many trips back to France.
Since October 2006 Sadie has recorded every aspect of her artistic development on her blog. Here she invites you into the studio to share her ongoing study of painting and drawing.
In addition to her own blog, Sadie also founded and launched WomenPaintingWomen.com, a website showcasing the work of living women figurative painters.
Sadie has taught graduate students at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and she now offers private workshops and classes at her San Francisco Mission District studio. She lives in San Francisco’s Cole Valley neighborhood, with her husband, Nowell Valeri.
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Memberships
Sadie is proud to be a member of these professional organizations: