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
Teaching
Courses
Studio /6 hours per week. Spatial systems, perspective, architecture, composition and design. Students explore structure and space through various concepts and drawing approaches for art and design. Emphasis is placed on structural analysis, linear perspective, atmospheric perspective, composition, and design as well as the development of essential perceptual, representational, technical, formal, analytical and critical skills.
Color, methods, materials. Introduction to color and the various methods and materials of painting that form the framework of learning to paint. Through work from direct observation of a variety of subjects, students learn to integrate shape, value and color in the creation of pictorial space and form. Students acquire the fundamental perceptual, technical, design and critical skills necessary to work in painting and begin to develop an understanding of the media.
Color, methods, materials. Introduction to color and the various methods and materials of painting that form the framework of learning to paint. Through work from direct observation of a variety of subjects, students learn to integrate shape, value and color in the creation of pictorial space and form. Students acquire the fundamental perceptual, technical, design and critical skills necessary to work in painting and begin to develop an understanding of the media.
Color, methods, materials, and the figure. Introduction to color and the various methods and materials of painting that form the framework of learning to paint from direct observation from a live model. The focus is on acquiring the understanding of form, structure and design in relation to the figure and its surrounding space. Students learn various modes of observation, representation, design, composition and expression.
Color, methods, materials, and the figure. Introduction to color and the various methods and materials of painting that form the framework of learning to paint from direct observation from a live model. The focus is on acquiring the understanding of form, structure and design in relation to the figure and its surrounding space. Students learn various modes of observation, representation, design, composition and expression.
In-depth investigation of single theme and the development of a consistent, cohesive, personal, and meaningful body of work. Concept, content, form, and process become a main focus as students continue and develop their understanding of formal issues, space, and composition.
In-depth investigation of single theme and the development of a consistent, cohesive, personal, and meaningful body of work. Concept, content, form, and process become a main focus as students continue and develop their understanding of formal issues, space, and composition.
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.
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.
In-depth investigation of a single subject and the development of a consistent, cohesive, personal and meaningful body of work. Process and content become a main focus as students continue to develop their understanding of color, space and composition.
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.”
