Valerie Merains

Valerie Merains‚ photographs are slick like travel posters. Some of the scenes appear to be tropical environments with luscious colors and succulent plants. In reality, these succulents are photographs of Plasticene blobs sitting in front of brightly colored (painted) backgrounds in Merains‚ studio. The plant - figures and backgrounds are vibrantly colored with either a medium-red object against a green field, or a purple object against a light purple background, or in one case red-hot forms against a bright red field. Because all of the photographs are Untitled, viewers can associate the pictures loosely to landscape or to gaseous outer space, or maybe even heaven or hell. - Zing Magazine