Welcome to the ROmanian ARTist CONNection, a new workgroup of Romanian visual artists from Connecticut which will be part of Romanul Corp. RoArtConn seeks to establish a stronger connection between local Romanian artists and the Romanian community, through exhibitions, events and artistic projects that will educate, inform and increase the visibility of the artistic contributions and achievements made by Romanian artists in America.
MEMBER ARTISTS
For more information about our artists, and additional artwork and projects, please visit their websites and social media pages
Ioana Barac
Ioana Barac is a designer and maker of architectural ornament and public art. Barac has a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science from University of Hartford where she currently teaches design. She is principal and co-founding member of Atelier Cue, a New Haven based placemaking and public art studio committed to community engagement. She has created and participated in many public arts projects and instalations in Connecticut and beyond.
Luiza Budea
Luiza Budea is a painter, curator and digital media artist. She holds a BFA from The Cooper Union, NYC, which she attended on a full scholarship. She has lived and worked in New York City for over two decades prior to moving to Ridgefield, Connecticut. She is passionate about public art, seeking to bring her work into communal spaces through temporary large-scale sidewalk chalk drawings. Her drawings and paintings explore the basic organic and geometric patterns of life, visually mapping the growth structures common to all living things.
Iulian Budea
Iulian Budea is a sculptor, painter and photographer living and working in New York City. He obtained a full scholarship from one of the most prestigious art schools in the US, The Cooper Union. He has continued to work and exhibit in New York over the past two decades.
His work unites an array of surrealist elements, expressionist distortion, architectural structures as well as cultural motifs from his mixed Romanian-American heritage, into a cohesive vision that speaks boldly, with powerful emotion and imagery.
Ioana Hobai
Ioana Hobai is a freelance illustrator and author of award-winning picture books. She grew up in Bucharest, where she started to doodle as soon as she could hold a pencil. She learned to paint with the artist Eugen Gasca, and she attended the Nicolae Tonitza Fine Arts High School in Bucharest. She has a Master of Architecture from Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture and Urbanism. Ioana Hobai has worked as an architect both in the UK and the US and currently resides in from Lexington, MA.
ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOKS by Ioana
Ioana’s books can be purchased at Barnes&Noble, and Amazon, but please consider supporting your local independent bookstore by checking in with them first.
A WHALE OF A MISTAKE
LENA’S SLIPPERS
BEFORE YOU SLEEP
Adrian Panaitisor
Adrian Panaitisor was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1956. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Connecticut in 1995, and a Bachelor of Science from the McB Naval Academy (Romania) in 1980. Adrian Panaitisor has over fifty years experience as an artist, thirty as a graphic designer, and over twenty as an educator. He has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe, and he's the founder of the Art eSchool and the Art Pill blog.
Adrian's paintings incorporate constructed 3D elements with optical illusions of depth rendered two-dimensionally, to create artwork that has us questioning our perception of space and color.
Ileana Dumitriu
Ileana Dumitriu is an architect and a visual artist based in New Haven, Connecticut. She attended the Nicolae Tonitza Fine Arts High School in Bucharest, and she has a Master of Architecture from Ion Mincu Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania.
In her free time, she enjoys painting and volunteering for public art projects in New Haven.
HOW TO JOIN
The group invites artists with similar interests to join them. For more details, please email us at info@theromanian.org, or contact the founding members directly.