“The power of enchantment is in operation in the first time one encounters a DuBasky stag. They are posed at an interface between abstraction and figuration which is a very contemporary concern, and at the same time they are sounding boards resonating with prehistoric echoes.”
— William Zimmer,
ARTS MAGAZINE
“Valentina DuBasky, an artist known for her evocative magical realist style featuring totemic animal images and lushly colored surfaces...There is something wonderfully provocative about the different degrees to which the birds are depicted as “being there…” This effect of fading in and out help to create a vivid sensation of movement, suggesting a cyclical condition wherein time and place vary, but the processes of birth and rebirth remain constant.”
— Ronny Cohen,
ARTFORUM
Top: Tuscany Stag in Madder Field, 2024. Oil on paper, 22 x 30 inches | Bottom: White Heron and Reeds, 2024. Oil on canvas, 84 x 66 inches