Fredericks
Gallery
presents:
Valentine Hooven
Oils, Drawings and Wood Burnings
Opening, Saturday, October
27
May 25, 1943, 1400 hours — born at the height of WW II, Valentine
was raised everywhere from Great Falls, Montana, to Berlin, Germany,
attended the Philadelphia College of Art on scholarship for one and
two-thirds years before having a nervous breakdown and going into
the Merchant Marines as a deck hand on Mobil Oil supertankers. Back
ashore, he became involved in live theater, first as a stage hand,
later holding just about every position a theater offered, beginning
in Philly, then Frisco, then to Hollywood to become a stunt man before
his creative illustrations finally began to sell to the Gay magazines,
appearing in most of the popular publications of the 1980s and ’90s
until focusing on Handjobs, which has published all of his
erotic work since 1999.
Being a versatile and creative Gemini, Valentine always tended to
work in a variety of mediums, the most notable of which is pyrography
(wood burning), a medium popular only with two million Boy Scouts
and the artist. Of late, he has taken up oil painting again for the
first time since art school and Valentine says he is surprised to
find himself experiencing a sudden (at the age of 69) rejuvenation
in his art, especially in the large-scale canvases that inspire him
more than anything else ever has.
Fredericks
Gallery
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 2:00 PM
to 5:00 PM
2100 N Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262
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