ART PEOPLE Anda Stelian|
“Boxes, Boxes, ... BOXES!
Silhouette 77 and Silhouette 92
Born in Romania, educated in Belgium, living in France and in New York City. Architect, I discovered ceramics 15 years ago for my own enjoyment and as a way to use my creativity. In 2006, on the verge of moving back to New York, I decided to sort trough the different stages and interests in my work over the years and concentrate on a set format, “the BOX”, ”Almost Square,” as a volume of graphic imagination.
My work is stoneware and consist in building with slabs from drawings, trying to keep the graphic quality when “translating the drawing” into the clay mass. Like Tablets, Tableaux, stenographies, these are small life commemorations, meant to lay or to be hanged, are visual memories, personal celebrations or graphic research.
Some of the THEMES I like to explore come from my everyday life, being part of the city, impressed by the “media”, visiting my sketchbooks, events, obsessions or concerns.
S.H.E. Project was constructed around : S =She shape, silhouettes, feminine shapes H =He shape, silhouettes, masculine shapes E = Enigma, a reflection on belly and violence, on
belly end
feminine images, also as a support of ideas. Enigma also as a question mark raised by the
veiled women. sity takes an other Eve Adam
(This is more discussed in France where diver- dimension than in the US)”
_ Artist’s Statement of Anda Stelian
8 O-Town Scene July 21, 2011
