Valerie Mankoff
Collage and Mixed Media Paintings
New Jersey

Dr. Valerie Mankoff has always been an artist - both graphic and poet/writer, despite having no formal art training until later adulthood. In recent years she has studied at New Jersey Center for Visual Arts and the Morristown Art Association. Her creative influences include the work of Joseph Cornell, Joan Snyder, Romaire Beardon and traditional Asian Art. In addition to her life as an artist, she has been in private practice as a Psychoanalyst for the past 20 years. She was recently elected to membership in the National Association of Women Artists

Education

PH.D City University of New York

B.A. Barnard College

Montclair Art Museum

New Jersey Center for Visual Arts

Morris County Art Association

Somerset Art Association

Studied with: Jonathan Talbot, Mona Brody, Alice Harrison, Nancy Nikkal, Pat Dews, Lor Field, Shirley Pu Wills

Exhibitions

2007 Solo: Kinnelon Public Library - "Dreamscapes I", Kinnelon, NJ

Solo: Parsippany Public Library - "Dreamscapes II", Parsippany, NJ

Group: NJ Center of Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

Group: Morris County Art Association, Boonton, NJ

2008 Upcoming (4/5-5/18) 24x24 (7) Media Loft Gallery, New Rochelle, NY