My Art has a global dimension: human. I observe, interact with and express the human being, human component, it's psychological and emotional dimensions, always having as a reference point, the center, the sacred--the absolute dimension. The parameters of my art swing between the human individual dimension and absolute dimension, as well from detail to general. The detail, as way of expression, becomes an attitude, a way of living, but always related to the general. They coexist, justifying each other.

I focus on subtle generalities, common intimacies, and general valid truths, as: love, longing, death, hope--which will never become over-used subjects, because they are eternally embedded in human nature and we will always identify with them.

Working on understanding and representing in a comprehensive way the Human Dimension, my artwork represents and materializes my experience and research on different levels of the human dimension.

Although drawing is my primary medium, the great variety of techniques and materials I use in my work meet in a fortunate way on interesting prepared surfaces, exploring the great resources of mixed media.

Most of my drawings are done on plaster prepared hard surfaces like solid wood or prefabricated wood panels. I prepare the surfaces just like you would prepare a wall: priming, plastering, sometimes using joint compound, sanding, priming again.

I leave most of times the edges of the artwork textured with the trowel impressions in plaster it has a contrasting, dynamic role among the other aesthetic elements.

My love for murals inspired the surface preparation and after I drew the first time on a wall there was no going back to paper. Most of the time walls will not be a perfect, smooth surface, which is great all the little bumps, holes, textures already have their own dialog going on with the light.

born: 1977, Baia Mare, Romania

education

University of Art and Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania, BFA 2001

selected awards/honors

Best of Show Award, DeVos Art Museum 2007

selected publications

Art Showcase: March, April 2007 Issue, Ann Arbor MI, p.21, 2007
Sirr Magazine: July, August 2006 Issue, Marquette, MI, p. front- back cover, 16-19, 2006
Neighbors, Daily Press: October 2005, Escanaba, MI, p. 34-36, 2005

selected solo or two-person exhibits

Vertin Gallery: Nature Elements, Calumet, MI 2008
Bluffton University, Sauder Visual Arts Center: Homage to the human being, Bluffton, OH, 2008
The CVA: Collected Remnants , Wausau WI, 2007
Lansing Art Gallery: Manifestation of Sacred, Lansing, MI, 2005

selected group shows

W. Bonifas Art Center: Northern Exposure XV,  Escanaba, MI 2008
DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University: Artists of the U.P., Marquette, MI, 2007
Holter Museum of Art: International Language , Helena, Montana, 2007
Duluth Art Institute: Arrowhead Biennial Exhibition , Duluth, MN, 2007