Iva gueorguieva biography templates
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Born in Bulgaria, Iva Gueorguieva emigrated to the United States in 1990 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. in Philosophy from Goucher College in Baltimore and her M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia, where she studied painting.
In Gueorguieva’s large-scale, abstract paintings, dizzying brushstrokes, loud colors, complex spatial configurations, and frenetic energy abound. Vaguely recognizable objects, dismembered body parts, hints of architecture, and obscure characters—grotesque, comic, even pitiful in their tattered states—are barely revealed and even seem poised to disintegrate. Yet they all come together, curiously juxtaposed, on canvases heaving with lurid hues, swirling spaces, and sharp-edged marks to depict seemingly futuristic worlds where an underlying sense of menace lurks. It is the process of painting that Gueorguieva makes evident in these chaotic, exuberant works. But as she bleeds abstraction into nar
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Nelson at Sophia Contemporary, London in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Frederic Snitzer, Miami, FL; Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe, New York, NY; ACME, Los Angeles, CA; Samson Projects, Boston, MA; Galerie Stefan Roepke, Cologne, Germany ; Stichting outLINE, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2008); and Pomona Museum of Art, Claremont, CA (2007).
Her work is held in public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; and Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA.
Iva Gueorguieva was a finalist for the Howard Foundation Grant in 2019 and was nominated for the Anonymous is a Woman grant in 2017. She is the recipient of the Orange County Contemporary Art Collectors Fellowship for
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Iva Gueorguieva
Iva Gueorguieva (b. 1974) generates a sense of frenetic activity in each of her expansive compositions. The 15 large-scale paintings at Ameringer McEnery Yohe and nine works on paper at Bravin Lee Programs constituted the Bulgarian-born, Los Angeles-based artist’s New York solo debut. Produced in the past two years, the works feature flying trajectories and curving eruptions of line and color that create a sense of depth and movement. Her spaces are as whirlpool-like and active as those of Julie Mehretu, but her cascading forms share the physicality of Matta’s fanciful paintings. With her deft papper of multiple techniques and distinctive use of color, Gueorguieva fryst vatten consistent but not repetitive.
Close examination of the paintings reveals thin strips of linen, off-white or fläckig with color, appliquéd to the surface; their crisp edges lend an additional graphic charge to each composition. In Grown Child with Mother (72 bygd 38 inches), thes