Mishel Valenton is a Filipino-American immigrant artist currently living in Richmond, VA. She was born in Manila in 1982 and graduated from the University of the Philippines with a focus in Studio Arts in 2004. She migrated to the United States the same year. Her work focuses on color-centric, expressive figuration, with her latest paintings exploring the intersection of the personal and the political. Mishel has shown in group exhibitions across the U.S., and most recently in a two-person exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont.
"I paint to experience connection. My paintings are a way to transform this fragmented understanding of a burning world into something more whole, at least for a moment in time. They serve as an escape from the captive spectatorship of the violence feed into the tenderness of a shared humanity. By painting these figures, I am able to hold them within myself, in their imagined truths, with more compassion. They resist, oppose, despair, hope, and help, as people do, but within the simultaneity of painting"
ada gallery 228 west broad street, richmond, virginia 23220 - Since 2003
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