Portrait of Elena Peteva

faculty

she/her

Associate Professor

Art & Design

Education

2007Syracuse UniversityMFA in Painting
2004Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsCFA in Painting

Teaching

  • Painting BFA
  • Drawing BFA
  • Painting MFA
  • Drawing BFA
  • Painting and Drawing PBC

Teaching

Programs

Biography

Elena Peteva works in painting, drawing and installation. 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), 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 public and private art collections, including Princeton University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including three Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants.

“My work is an allegorical representation of our individual, social and global states.
The image functions as a subtle but charged signifier that creates a net of meaning. I seek a distilled representation, an impossible stillness that captures the ephemeral essence of “now”, the memory of the past and the sense of what is to come and creates a deeper reality. What I try to do in my work is define, present and illuminate things which are, perhaps, unrepresentable.”

Light
Light, detail
Cloud
Silence II
Silence II, detail
Mom in Transition III
Breath II
Offering
Offering
Offering
Passage I
Passage III

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