ART / EXPRESSION / EXPERIENCE
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"Art for art's sake, with no purpose,
for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose
which is not its own."
Benjamin Constant |
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Bogdan Luca
Original Artwork
Everybody's happy nowadays
Original oil painting on board
50" x 50"
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Life
Original oil painting on canvas
00" x 00"
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Shaky Face - Mike
Original oil painting on canvas
48" x 60"
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Shaky Face - Julie
Original oil painting on canvas
48" x 60"
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Shaky Faces
Original oil painting on canvas
12" x 16"
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Shaky Faces
Original oil painting on canvas
12" x 16"
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Shaky Faces
Original oil painting on canvas
12" x 16"
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Shaky Faces
Original oil painting on canvas
12" x 16"
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Shaky Faces
Original oil painting on canvas
12" x 16"
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Shaky Faces
Original oil painting on canvas
12" x 16"
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Shaky Faces
Original oil painting on canvas
12" x 16"
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Shaky Faces
Original oil painting on canvas
12" x 16"
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Shaky Face
Original oil painting
& Mixed Media on canvas
54" x 54"
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Shaky Face
Original oil painting
& Mixed Media on canvas
54" x 54"
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Shaky Face
Original oil painting
& Mixed Media on canvas
54" x 54"
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Shaky Face
Original oil painting
& Mixed Media on canvas
54" x 54"
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Aktion I - NEW 2007
Original oil painting on canvas
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Aktion II - NEW 2007
Original oil painting on canvas
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Aktion III - NEW 2007
Original oil painting on canvas
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Aktion IV - NEW 2007
Original oil painting on canvas
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Original oil painting on canvas
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Original oil painting on canvas
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Original oil painting on canvas
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Original oil painting on canvas
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Original oil painting on canvas
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Original oil painting on canvas
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Original oil painting on canvas
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Artist’s Statement
My current work is an attempt to come to
terms with my world, the surrounding reality and the way they
are shaped by perception and mediating influences. Reading some
of the work of postmodern cultural theorists informed my
choosing the face as a focus for my work. We are highly adept at
recognizing faces as entities that are more than the sum of
their anatomical parts. Faces are cultural signifiers that have
become detached from our biological bodies. We wear faces as
social masks, we slip into the appropriate face of our
occupation, we read complex codes into faces. The face of
authority, of the leader. There is a long tradition of portrait
painting that seeks to extend or preserve that facial code
beyond time and space.
I am interested in exploring faces in
transition. By asking my models to shake their heads while I
photograph them I hope to glimpse at a face brought down from a
symbolic level to the biological level of our bodies. While
portrait painting has been concerned with capturing the sitter
into a pose of fulfilled potential, I want to paint the face of
open potential, a face in-between two positions or states. There
are several levels of conflict or contradiction that I am
interested in. One is the physical violent transformation that
occurs in the moving face, as opposed to the perceived
distortion that is a result of using a camera to record the
event, namely blurs, multiple exposures, degenerated shapes. A
second area of contradiction is between creating a recognizable
face and allowing the material aspects of paint to fully assert
themselves. Furthermore, I am interested in the dialogue between
the creation of an illusion of deep space and the acknowledgment
of the flat surface of the canvas. My aim is to create works
that could go either way, that cannot quite be clearly grasped,
that move in and
out of focus.
I feel that we cannot be absolutely sure
of anything anymore. The world is being refuted everyday and new
possibilities are invented. It is almost as if we could all
invent our own paradigms and live our lives accordingly, in the
absence of an overarching narrative. This state of flux can be a
source of anxiety but it may also be a source of unlimited
possibilities and creativity. Through my painting, I am trying
to come to terms with this situation and hopefully find out what
kind of paradigm I can construct for my own life.
C.V.
Education
2007 OCAD - BFA, drawing and painting
2007 OCAD Florence campus - thesis
2000 Sheridan College - classical animation
diploma
1997 Central Technical School - post Sec.
fine arts diploma
Work
2003 Freelance artist - Animator,
Illustrator, Designer
2006 Smiley Guy Studios, Toronto - Designer
2002 10Plus1 Communications, Toronto -
Animator and illustrator
2001-02 Calibre Digital, Toronto. 'Hey Joel'
- Animator
2000- 02 Collideascope Digital, Halifax.
Rough Animator Studies
Exhibitions
2007 The Figurative Show - Louise Lipman
Contemporary Art
2007 OCAD Grad Show
2007 The Sex Issue 2 - Projekt30 Gallery
2006 OCAD Florence end of year exhibition
2006 Florence student group show - Mayday
club, Florence
2006 Square Foot – AWOL Gallery
2006 Landscape: The Lasting Inspiration –
Praxis Gallery
2006 Peel Annual Juried Show – Art Gallery of
Peel
2006 MyOcad 06 – Xpace Gallery
2006 OCAD figure show
2006 Love Potion Project - Propeller Gallery
2005 Square Foot - AWOL Gallery
2005 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit
2005 BLT To Go SpeakEasy – Gladstone Hotel
2005 My OCAD Retrospective
2005 OCAD figurative show
2005 Whippersnapper Gallery opening show
2004 Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit
2004 Annex Patio Art Show
2004 OCAD figurative show
2003 Annex Patio Art show
2003 Distillery outdoor art show
2003 Gypsy X solo
Awards
2006 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award
2006 Av Isaacs Tuition Scholarship
2006 Lisa Brown Memorial Scholarship
2005 Pirelli Relativity Challenge – first
prize
2005 Carol and Morton Rapp Foundation Award
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