Spela Cvetko
Abstract Perspectives
February 20 - March 13, 2007
Reception:
Thursday February 22, 2007 6-8 PM
Press Release
The work of Slovenian artist Spela Cvetko is an evolution, a metamorphosis of the artist's consciousness in search of her own expressions, as represented by Returning Journey, painted on large canvases in mixed media and radiant with the golden sheets so beloved by the artist. In these works the simplified, pure form of the circle — the glowing source, the core, the center of being — shines and erupts as witness to the creation. Individual stains and spear shapes take on identities. These forms have an individual awareness and impress upon the viewer the stories of their journeys, once dwelling outside of creation and then born into this world. Spela's artistic journey began with painting figure compositions and portraits, focusing on masters such as Klimt, Picasso, Degas and Modigliani to study their deliberate use of color and shape. Through discipline and hard work she began to search for her own visual identity; her creative process taking her in the direction dictated by the inner, primal idea existing in her subconscious and finding expression in the abstract shapes and forms on canvas. Spela Cvetko was born in Celje, Slovenia in 1972. She studied art at the University in Maribor, but her interest in the purity of Fine Arts led her to further study at Modic Art School in Ljubljana, followed by studies under Milan Todic at the Academy of Zagreb. She graduated from the Art House College for Visual Arts in Ljubljana.
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