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Elena Peteva
Associate Professor
Art & Design
Contact
508-999-8573
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College of Visual & Performing Arts 357A
Education
| 2007 | Syracuse University | MFA in Painting |
| 2004 | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | CFA in Painting |
Teaching
- Drawing
- Painting
Teaching
Programs
Programs
Teaching
Courses
The preparation of a body of conceptually focused, original, and innovative visual work for exhibition or presentation. Graded A-F.
The completion of the written thesis, a verbal explanation of the visual thesis which includes research of sources and a discussion of pertinent aesthetic issues, materials, and processes. Graded A-F.
The major studios involve intensive work and research in the student's area of concentration. Students investigate the aesthetic, conceptual, technical, and structural properties of chosen media through an individualized study program developed under the guidance of their major advisors. Through questioning and experimentation, students are expected to consolidate technique with the development of strong, expressive ideas. Informal critiques and individualized discussions are scheduled.
Final major studio/continuation elective studio.
Exploration of contemporary drawing concepts, practices and media. Students investigate time, space and meaning and the relationship of concept, content and form through drawing in 2-d, 3-d and time-based media, interdisciplinary work with guest faculty and a collaborative installation project.
Advanced drawing exploration and correlation of previous drawing experiences that manifest in a 2d or 3d approach. Emphasis is placed on conceptual investigation, expression, and interpretation. Students develop their personal vision, creative process, and independent, cross-disciplinary studio practice within the context of art history and contemporary art.
Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area not otherwise part of the discipline's course offerings. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
Introduction to the comprehensive visual language of drawing. Various projects and presentations expose students to numerous drawing approaches, including working with line, sighting, positive and negative shapes, value and composition. Students will apply these skills to idea generation, form and space development, experimental variations on design, and creative problem solving. Students are also introduced to the processes involved in planning, researching, and actualizing a major drawing project Critiques and lectures will help students develop an understanding of the critical issues of drawing and of its context within the history of art and design.
Biography
Elena Peteva works in painting, drawing and multimedia drawing/film/projection. She exhibits in the US and internationally including: European Museum of Modern Art (Barcelona, Spain), Butler Institute of American Art (Ohio), Arnot Art Museum (New York), Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (Florida), Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Indiana), Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Pennsylvania), and numerous contemporary art galleries. Her work is in many public and private art collections, including Princeton University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She is the recipient numerous awards, including three Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants.
“My work is an allegorical representation of the human state, time and transience.
The outer is emblematic of the inner, whether the outer representation reveals my subject’s inner state or my subject acts as a personification of an idea. In the drawings and paintings I construct I seek a distilled representation, an impossible stillness that captures the ephemeral essence of “now”, the memory of the past (“before”) and the sense of what is to come (“after”) and creates a deeper and more truthful reality, in which our presence and absence exist simultaneously. I often think what I try to do in my work is to define, present and illuminate things that are perhaps unrepresentable.”
