We salute the creation of the ROmanian ARTists 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.
EVENTS
Upcoming events with the participation and/or organized by RoArtConn group members.
MEANDERS
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 30, 6-8pm
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, June 21, 2:30-4:30pm
On view MAY 30–JUNE 28 at:
SILPE GALLERY
University of Hartford / Hardford Art School
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
860.768.4100
We are proud to announce the second exhibition of the group Romanian Artists Connection. Artists Ioana Barac, Iulian Budea, Luiza Budea, Liviu Cupceancu, Ileana Dumitriu, Ioana Hobai, Flavius Lucacel, Adrian Panaitisor, and Ion Severin return for a memorable fine art exhibition in a spectacular gallery space, generously provided by the Hartford Art School.
The exhibit explores the experiences that mold and erode our paths as we move through our individual paths in life. What do we carry with us, what do we leave behind? What journeys have marked us, unfolding in our art?
Through works of varied scale and media, our group of Romanian-born artists practicing in the Northeast U.S. and Eastern Europe invites you to step into the space where our paths unfold together.
PAST EVENTS
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.
Winter Solstice Luminary Walk
The work of RoArtConn member Ioana Barac and other artists on display for a magical night.
5Perspectives Exhibit Catalog
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 local 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.