Valley of Peace Annapurna Burke Fox Bak
Born June 8th, 1975, Plantation, Florida.
Valley Bak is a New York based Artist and Critcal Care Registered Nurse whose work examines the relationship between medicine, the creative process and meditation. Valley’s experience of working with patients on the thresholds of life and death in Cardio Thoracic Critical Care brings a unique perspective and depth to her work. A self-taught artist born with a visual impairment, Valley has been visually processing the outer world through painting since early childhood.
Education:
2004 Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Registered Nurse
Magna Cum Laude
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
2001 Master of Oriental Medicine
Acupuncture Physician
Magna Cum Laude
Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medicine
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Selected Exhibition History:
2021 Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Members Show
2021 Springs General Store, East Hampton, New York, Solo Show
2020 Springs General Store, East Hampton, New York, Solo Show
2019 Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, New York, Group Show
2019 Springs General Store, East Hampton, New York, Solo Show
2018 Springs General Store, East Hampton, New York, Solo Show
2018 Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Members Show
2017 Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Members Show
2016 Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Members Show
2013 NYU Hospital, New York, New York, Origins of Medicine, solo
2012 Tibet House, New York, New York, Sacred Vision/Separate Views
2010 Zanadhu Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Feminine Visions
2010 Martin Mullin Gallery at SUNY, Oneonta, New York, Changeless Nature
2009 Viviana Hansen Gallery, Franklin, New York, A Buddhist Point of View, solo
2009 American Heart Association, St.Petersburg, Florida, Art For Heart Auction
2009 Ann Norton Sculpture Garden, Palm Beach, Florida, Hands of Compassion around the World
2009 Montgomery County Community College, Pottstown, Pennsylvania, Enlightenment of Flowers
2009 Viviana Hansen Gallery, Delhi, New York, A Gift of Art
2008 Viviana Hansen Gallery Gallery, Delhi, New York, Holiday Celebration
2008 Treadwell Museum of Fine Art, Treadwell, New York, Erotica
2007 Treadwell Museum of Fine Art, Treadwell, New York, Disasters of War
2006 Sally Baker Gallery, Ithaca, New York, Flowers, solo
2004 Hospice by the Sea, Boca Raton, Florida, Healing Images in Art
2002 Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, Aesthetics of Nursing
1995 Gallery Jean-Jacque, Manchester, England, Omphalopsychism
1995-1996: Studies oil painting with Judy Dupic in Lanta, France. Travels to Paris, Catalonia, Manchester, London, West coast of Ireland, Cadaques, Florence, and Rome.
1997-2001: Studies Chinese Medicine in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Completes three year acupuncture internship with Johanna Yen, MD. Completes two year herbal medicine internship with Boping Wu, MD. Studies Chinese language with Hsinpo Chen, PhD. Awarded full scholarship from Chinese Government to study Mandarin in Beijing, China.
2002-2005: Completes Nursing degree, works in Cardiac Intensive Care Unit in Delray Beach, Florida. Maintains studio in Boca Raton, Florida. Visits Alhambra in Granada, Spain.
2006-2010: Lives and works in Chicago and New York. Studies Buddhist philosophy and meditation with Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, Chogyal Namkhai Norbu and Glenn H. Mullin. Travels to Venezuela, The Netherlands, France, and Mongolia. Works as a critical care nurse at Beth Israel in Manhattan.
2011-2013: Lives and works in New York. Maintains studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Works at Beth Israel Medical Center in the Cardio -Thoracic Intensive Care Unit as a Critical Care Registered Nurse for five years.
2013-2017: Purchases home in Springs, New York. Builds studio on property. Gets diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and is treated in NYC. Maintains studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Takes two-year leave of absence and focuses intensely on art and meditation. Marries woodworker, Zbigniew Bak. Works as Palliative Care Clinical Coordinator at Southampton Hospital for one year. Travels to Poland.
2018-2020 Lives and works in Springs, East Hampton and Bushwick, Brooklyn. Works full time at New York Presbyterian Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn as bedside RN in Cardio Thoracic Step Down. Works full time in Springs studio.
2020-2021 Works in Cardio Thoracic Step Down Unit during Pandemic in Brooklyn. Unit becomes a Covid -19 ICU, Covid Pneumonia contracted, LOA taken from New York Prebysterian Methodist Hospital. Works through Acute and Post-Covid illness in Springs, East Hampton studio.
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