At Kreuser Gallery in Colorado Springs, 17-year-old Tanner Valant is showing several hyper-realistic drawings in colored pencil he learned how to make during the pandemic. Delving into the territory of “nostalgia” in an exhibition called Reimagined, Valant seems oblivious of his age, somehow managing to tap into a visually prescient reality. His piece Still Smiling features a smiley face icon, so emblematic of 1990s and 2000s culture, crumpled up, with textures, troughs, and valleys, but ultimately not discarded by Valant. He recycles it into a work of art that does not gloss over the weathered history of the past but embraces time moving forward.
Anna Fiorino, “Fall Arts Preview,” Colorado Springs Indy, September 21-27, 2022. 11.
Link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOf2mEFBa9k
Reimagined Artist Talk (Kreuser Gallery)
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