Valerie Yaklin-Brown

Valerie Yaklin-Brown is a visual artist living on a foreclosed emu farm in Magnolia, Texas. She grew up in the small south Texas town of Riviera, received her graduate degree in photography at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas and currently teaches at Lone Star College-Montgomery.

At the core of Valerie's works is the compulsion to excavate meaning from large and small life events. Issues of identity, place, and political and societal concerns are explored using a variety of photo-based media.

Exhibitions/Publications

• 2025   "Imago Solaris", solo exhibition, Mary Matteson-Parrish Gallery, Conroe, TX
• 2024    Point A to Point B: Analog Exploration, Issue #7
• 2023    Swirl: Literature and Arts Journal, 2023
• 2023    "The Measure of Time", juror Robin Griffith, Spring Street Studios, Houston, TX
• 2020    "Imagery: Seen and Unseen",Fotofest 2020 Participating Spaces, Lee College PAC Art Gallery, Baytown, TX
• 2020    "Ratio Redux", Hardy & NanceStudios, Houston, TX
• 2020    "Overwhelming (Im)Possibilities",Juror, Haley Berkman Karren, Houston Community College,Houston, TX
• 2019    "Geography Lessons: Midpoints and Fault Lines", solo installation exhibit at College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX
• 2018    "After School Special: The Lamar University First Juried Alumni Art Exhibition", Dr. Lynne Lokensgard, juror, Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, TX
• 2018    "Ratio Redux," Fotofest 2018 Participating Spaces, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston, TX
• 2017    "35th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition", Dr. Rebecca Senf, juror, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
  
• 2017    "positive/negative space"  The Art Studio, Inc., Beaumont, TX.
  
• 2017    "Faculty Exhibit", Mary Matteson-Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College- Montgomery, Conroe, TX  
  
• 2016    "Texas National 2016", Abelardo Morell, juror. The Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX
  
• 2016    "Faculty Exhibit", Mary Matteson-Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College- Montgomery,  Conroe, TX
  
• 2015    “Vestiges of the Strangely Ordinary”’ Solo Exhibition, Lone Star College-Tomball, Tomball TX
  
• 2015    "Faculty Exhibit", Mary Matteson-Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College- Montgomery, Conroe, TX     
  
• 2014    “Silver: Making the Monochrome Image”, Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX
  
• 2014    “Forgotten”, Blue Mitchell, juror, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
  
• 2014    "Faculty Exhibit", Mary Matteson-Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College- Montgomery, Conroe, TX
  
• 2014    “Houston Center for Photography Print Auction Show”, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
  
• 2013     Society for Photographic Education “Committee Show”, College of the Mainlands, Texas City, TX       
  
• 2013    “Holgas Out of the Box”, Ted Orland, juror, TCC Photo Gallery, Longview, TX
  
• 2013     Texas Photographic Society "Members Only Show", Islander Gallery, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, TX
  
• 2012    “Holgas Out of the Box”, Michael Kenna, juror, TCC Photo Gallery, Longview, TX
  
• 2012    "Faculty Exhibit" Mary Matteson-Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College- Montgomery, Conroe, TX
  
• 2011     "29th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition" Ariel Shanberg, juror, Houston Center  for Photography, Houston, TX
  
• 2011    “Mentor’s Show”, The Art Alliance at Clear Lake, Clear Lake, TX
  
• 2010    "Lone Star College Montgomery Faculty Art Exhibit", The Art Gallery, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Clear Lake, TX
  
• 2010    "Faculty Exhibit", Mary Matteson-Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College, Montgomery, Conroe, TX
  
• 2009     Light Leaks: Low Fidelity Photography, volume 13
  
• 2009     Texas Photographic Society "Members Only Show", Keith Carter, juror, Dishman Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
  
• 2008    "Urban Life," Featured Artist, Three Allen Center, Houston, TX
  
• 2008    "Faculty Exhibit" Mary Matteson-Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College-Montgomery, Conroe, TX
  
• 2008    "Lost and Found," Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX
  
• 1998    “Discoveries: FotoFest ‘98”, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, TX

Exhibitions Curated

• 2021    "Space", Spring Street Studios, Houston, TX
• 2014    “Silver: Making the Monochrome Image”, Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX
  
• 2014    “Unrestricted Boundaries”, Mary Matteson-Parrish Art Gallery, Lone Star College-Montgomery, Conroe, TX