Ivana Kosanovic

Thoroughly expressive in startling brushwork and pure, electric color, painter Ivana Kosanovic is inspired by memory and reminiscence. Like the Abstract Expressionists that inspire her work, the artist paints dexterously textured, courageously large-scaled works which encompass her exploration of her perception of her present and past moments. Color negotiates bulks of white space, and works as a metaphor for the nuances of how our contemporary selves negotiate our remembrances and former selves. “My paintings are inspired by specific impressions from everyday life,” says Kosanovic. “We all have specific ways of accumulating, processing and storing information that affect us on a daily basis, consciously or unconsciously.” Kosanovic sites Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell as her aesthetic progenitors, and their influence can be seen in her organic and dynamic bravura brushwork and painterly drips.

Born in Belgrade, Serbia, Ivana Kosanovic studied in Malta and Switzerland. She lives and works in Serbia, exhibiting her works throughout Eastern Europe and now in the U.S.