STATEMENT OF WORK

I am an artist originally from Romania, but I live and work in Oakland, CA. As an immigrant, my work is informed by the relationship between my identity to my sense of displacement, and the ways I have devised to reconcile those incongruous elements.  I am interested in perception, memory and the mechanics of motion, their visual translation, and the dichotomies intrinsic to them (transfer vs change, action vs reaction, and time linearity)

I explore the fluidity and tension generated by contradictions: organized chaos and uncontrolled order, machine-like generated imagery, and imperfections. I also tend to adulterate the boundaries between representative and abstract. I leverage marks, colors, shapes, and textures to construct an undefined world, rather than mirror reality.

As an artist, I am interested in choices: what remains to be seen, what is absent, and how decisions are made.  I work across a range of media, from drawing, painting, mixed media, muralism and 3-D works. My working method is process-based and serial. This approach allows me to expand on an idea, and to respond to what I am working on. It also allows me to think of the next works. Thus, the work makes the works.

Part of my immigrant reinvention as an artist was a dramatic change on my approach to art-making. While in Romania I was working mostly on small scale drawings, in the  United States I started working in a range of media, from painting, drawing, mixed media, mural and video work. I am currently interested on expanding the structure of painting/ drawings from a 2-dimensional format onto a 3-dimensional one.