Instagram story viewer> @thunderloves> Tagged
Amanda Valdez(@thunderloves)'s profile avatar HD Profile

Amanda Valdez

@thunderloves

undefined
POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED
That’s a wrap on our Summer Artist in Residence season! What a great crew of artists we hosted these past few months 💕🦋🫶🏼 We are welcoming our Fall Artists now and we can’t wait to share what’s ahead. Mark your calendars for our next Open House, Sunday October 25, to see what they are up to! Photos by Aaron Wojack @aaronwojack
13
Download
One week left to see ‘Surf Report’! On view through August 28th at our Main Street Gallery.
3
Download
This summer, we’re enjoying the company of another incredible group of Artists in Residence, now settling into the second half of the season. Amanda Valdez, this year’s Henderson Awardee, joining us from New York, merges painting with textile-based processes — weaving, dyeing, and embroidery — to translate embodied knowledge into hybrid, sculptural paintings; Jay Carlon weaves his Filipino heritage and queer identity into dance, film, and site-responsive performance, researching Filipino street festival rituals through a diasporic, post-colonial lens; Erica Mahinay, our Chiaro Awardee, is developing a new series of large-scale paintings built through touch, revision, and slow layering, letting the Marin light and landscape shape her palette in real time. In 2026, 62 artists will participate in fully sponsored residencies, gaining a rare opportunity to live and work in the Marin Headlands as they develop varied projects that can shape culture far beyond our campus. A donation to Headlands provides critical funds for new work and ideas, and builds creative community and experiences for all! Make a donation today, and join us for our September Supper on Thursday, September 10—a family-style meal in the Mess Hall followed by a studio visit with Tournesol Awardee L. Song Wu and a reading by Eirinie Carson from her forthcoming third book. Can’t make it? Mark your calendar for Fall Open House on Sunday, October 25 and see what else is happening at Headlands at the link in bio! Photo 1 by Airyka Rockefeller Photo 2 by Aaron Wojack Photo 2-4 by Tom Ide Photo 5 by Athur Alvarez
3
Download
@headlandsarts Cohorts bond in different ways! Sometimes it’s through shore leave on Risa. Sometimes it’s by tracing the source of E-band emissions. Sometimes it’s doing a full table read of an episode of Star Trek Next Generation! Thanks to @eirinieeee for the game changing proposition!
5
Download
Loved this group show at @albertzbenda curated by @trotter30 1. @jimgaylord 2. @kevinumana 3. @thunderloves 4. @tanyaaguiniga 5. @nareshkumarstudio 6. @sharifceramics 7. @brie_ruais 8. @joana_choumali 9. @emillukas
10
Download
The kind of announcement every artist wishes for. Museum acquisitions are labors of love (one that not every art dealer can get to the finish line). It was a pleasure to work with @sarahbouchardgallery and her amazing community in Maine to see works from every artist from Every Infinitesimal Thought join the collection of The Bowdoin College Museum of Art! Full announcement below! ✨✨✨ Thanks to the generosity of a private donor and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, we are PLEASED to announce the acquisition of five works from our recent exhibition ‘Every Infinitesimal Thought,’ co-curated with Kate Russo (four of which are pictured here), by the BCMA. ✨✨✨ It is an honor to have these works in the permanent collection @bowdoinmuseum ! CECILIA CHARLTON under the cloud of passing time, which flows endlessly, constantly spinning its thread, rarely golden, often leaden [purple-yellow psychic portal] 39.5” x 35.5” Hand-embroidered wool yarn on cotton canvas over cedar panel, 24-carat gold leaf 2024 JULIE COCKBURN Small Cable Car 6.5” x 10” Hand embroidery on collages found photographs 2025 KATE RUSSO Emma’s Room 5.8” x 8.3” Thread, graphite, and colored pencil on graph paper 2024 AMANDA VALDEZ Taking Nourishment 9 36” x 32” Embroidery and gouache on canvas 2025 @ceciliacharlton @juliecockburnartist @russokate @thunderloves #sarahbouchardgallery #bowdoincollegemuseumofart #fiberart #thread #everyinfinitesimalthought
15
Download
ISSUE 92: Hermes’ new London maison. Stepping into Christina Forrer’s colorful, textural world. Honoring photographer Martin Parr. Two stays remarkable designed by Philippe Starck. Slowing down in Maine… and a few more things.
0
Download
✨✨✨ Thanks to the generosity of a private donor and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, we are PLEASED to announce the acquisition of five works from our recent exhibition ‘Every Infinitesimal Thought,’ co-curated with Kate Russo (four of which are pictured here), by the BCMA. ✨✨✨ It is an honor to have these works in the permanent collection @bowdoinmuseum ! CECILIA CHARLTON under the cloud of passing time, which flows endlessly, constantly spinning its thread, rarely golden, often leaden [purple-yellow psychic portal] 39.5” x 35.5” Hand-embroidered wool yarn on cotton canvas over cedar panel, 24-carat gold leaf 2024 JULIE COCKBURN Small Cable Car 6.5” x 10” Hand embroidery on collages found photographs 2025 KATE RUSSO Emma’s Room 5.8” x 8.3” Thread, graphite, and colored pencil on graph paper 2024 AMANDA VALDEZ Taking Nourishment 9 36” x 32” Embroidery and gouache on canvas 2025 @ceciliacharlton @juliecockburnartist @russokate @thunderloves #sarahbouchardgallery #bowdoincollegemuseumofart #fiberart #thread #everyinfinitesimalthought
10
Download
Executive Director, Amanda Valdez (@thunderloves) in conversation with Hall W. Rockefeller (@all.the.lady.artists), founder of Less Than Half (@_lessthanhalf) on how collectors can approach artists on Instagram. Less Than Half was founded to empower women to champion gender inequality in the art world by making art collecting seem accessible and impactful.
3
Download
Amanda Valdez cuts apart raw canvas, sews it back together with vibrantly colored, hand-dyed fabrics, then layers paint, oil stick, and thread—letting them push and pull against every seam. Her work contrasts canonical abstraction with craft methods long dismissed as “women’s work,” asserting an equality between materials that the art world long refused to grant them. Drawing on personal memory and the long history of abstraction, Valdez’s canvases register the body—its scars, wrinkles, asymmetries—alongside the tensions built into the medium itself. Valdez’s extraordinary solo exhibition, Aftertouch, runs through this sunday @atownartmuseum #AmandaValdez #fiberart #textileart #Womenswork #downtownallentown
7
Download
Last week to view the Landing Gallery 10 Year Anniversary • pt II • 21st C Through Saturday 11 - 6
3
Download
It’s hard to describe the urge to touch every work in Amanda Valdez’s Aftertouch. While I kept my hands to myself, I couldn’t help but be moved by the beautiful textiles. Her blend of embroidery, quilting, and painting is a brilliant bridge between craft and fine art. I left the Allentown Art Museum feeling inspired and ready to start quilting again! Catch the exhibit now through May 17. ❤️ #AllentownArtMuseum #MicroAdventure #RoadTrip @allentowncitypa @atownartmuseum @lehighvalleypa @thunderloves
0
Download
back to up