Monica Iancu Fine Art

Scientists discover heavenly solar music

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:53:00 +0000

ScienceDaily (2010-06-22) -- Musical sounds created by longitudinal vibrations within the Sun's atmosphere, have been recorded and accurately studied for the first time by researchers, shedding light on the Sun's magnetic atmosphere.

2010 Metal Tiger Tibetan New Year

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:41:00 +0000

Monica Iancu, Tiger Banner, Calligraphy Painting for
The Shambhala Meditation Center Tibetan New Year Celebration

Cheerful Year of The Metal Tiger

I am the delightful Paradox.
All the world is my stage.
I set new trails ablaze,
I seek the unattainable,
and try the untried.
I dance to life's music
in gay abandon.
Come with me on my carousel rides.
See the myriad of colors,.
the flickering lights.
All hail me the unparalleled performer.
I AM THE TIGER

[From The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes
by Theodora Lau. Harper Collins Publishers. 2007]

Exploring the Ineffable | FLYP

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:33:00 +0000

Artist Katie Patterson

Exploring the Ineffable | FLYP

Jul 24, 2009

By David A. Ross

The Moon has always seemed somewhat melancholic, a wistful object in the night sky that remains a favorite subject of poets, musicians and artists even after it has been de-mystified by 40 years of probes, manned landings and scientific exploration.

For the young Scottish artist Katie Paterson, it was the Moon's amgibuous distance—far, and yet so close in astronomical terms—that piqued her interest in pursuing her own kind of exploration. Paterson is interested in transmission and reception—the basis of human communication—and in a Zen-inspired quest to know and see what cannot be easily seen or known. An artist deeply engaged in science, she's also interested in exploring the ineffable. In her first well-known work, she placed a microphone into an Icelandic glacier, and callers to a mobile number in England could listen to the glacier as it slowly melted.

In her research, Paterson happened upon a global community of radio enthusiasts who took particular delight in bouncing radio signals off of the Moon's surface and recording the results. After making contact with a group of Japanese enthusiasts, she proposed trying the experiment with an encoded version of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, reconstituting it and playing the resulting transmission through a digital player piano, "performing" robotically in an empty gallery space. The results were, in Paterson's words, "strange and almost ghostly."

Because of the Moon's irregularly cratered surface, bits of the transmission are lost in the process, and there are gaps and missing notes in the playback which Paterson sees as a kind of technological intervention in the musical score. This seemingly simple transformation encourages us to listen carefully for what we can no longer hear.

She then convinced her Moon-bouncing colleagues to take this Zen notion to its extreme, and transmitted a performance of John Cage's 4' 33", his famous silent work, which encouraged audiences to simply listen to the sounds around them, and to pay the same careful attention to ambient sound as one would to composed music.

For a recent exhibition in London, Paterson produced a map of all the dead stars in the universe, and her next work is another search for the ineffable: working with several leading astrophysicists to find a way to transmit what she refers to as "ancient darkness," images of the black of deep space from the time of the Big Bang.

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Watching Whales Watching Us

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:57:00 +0000

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/magazine/12whales-t.html

Nalini Nadkarni: Unveiling the beautiful, fragile world of rainforest treetop ecosystems

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Fri, 01 May 2009 22:52:00 +0000

Extreme Ice Survey in Action

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:21:00 +0000

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Glacial Forms
Works In Progress

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:02:00 +0000

My Rooftop Piece
graphite & collage
5.5" x 15"

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:45:00 +0000

Archway
charcoal, graphite & collage
11" x 10"

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:50:00 +0000

Persistence
charcoal & graphite on paper
40" x 33"

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:51:00 +0000

* Please visit my website @ www.monicaiancuarts.com for an updated bio, resume, and statement as this is an old post.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Monica Iancu was born in Timisoara, Romania. She earned her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art + Design, where she received departmental honors and distinction. In 2003 she was awarded a 2D Fine Arts Department Award. She has exhibited in several group shows in Massachusetts and New York including the "Small Works" juried exhibition at the Women’s Studio Center in LIC, NY. She is a member of The Drawing Center.

The artist has also been involved in arts education. As part of a cross cultural art and literacy program, she worked with Navajo children in Shiprock, New Mexico. She has been greatly influenced by her experience of the southwest landscape and her study of Native American and eastern mythology and traditions. She has also worked as a teaching artist in Roslindale, Massachusetts.

As a visual artist, working with hand made drawn and printed materials and collage, Iancu hopes to "stimulate the tactility, subtlety and infinite breath of organic life." She overlaps and transforms, drawing outward the edges in her spaces to achieve a synthesis of organic and architectural elements. Using structural forms within the landscape which refer often to doorways, posts, and archways, she aims to investigate the deeper relationships within our spatial and psychological boundaries. Her objective is to maintain an increasing awareness of process and history as it relates to and transforms the drawing and the living experience.

She adds, "The process of convergence and divergence, excavation, erosion, germination, and the structures within things compel me. These are things which I have found in the landscape. I think about a continuing narrative, the fabric of nature, drawing and breathing."

Monica Iancu currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:51:00 +0000

Aerial

graphite on paper
22" x 17"

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:20:00 +0000

Column
hand made collage & graphite on paper
16" x 11"

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:48:00 +0000

* Please visit my website @ www.monicaiancuarts.com for an updated resume, bio and statement as this is an old post.
MONICA IANCU
miancuarts@gmail.com
www.monicaiancuarts.com

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Virtual Reality, Online Juried Exhibition, Women's Studio Center, Long Island City, NY

2007 Member's Show, Women's Studio Center, Long Island City, NY

2006 Featured Artist, Online Juried Gallery, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY

2006 Small Works, Women’s Studio Center, Long Island City, NY

2003 Senior Show, Baklar Gallery Boston, MA

2003 All School Show, A Juried Annual Art Exhibition, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA

2002 Drawings From Painters, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA

2002 Sound Scapes, An Art and Music Exhibition, North Hall Gallery, Boston, MA

2002 All School Show, A Juried Annual Art Exhibition, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA

2001 Organic Flux, Student Life Gallery Boston, MA

2001 All School Show, A Juried Annual Art Exhibition, Student Life Gallery, Boston, MA

AWARDS
2003 Massachusetts College of Art + Design Foundation 2D Auction Award
2003 Graduation with Distinction and Departmental Honors

EDUCATION
2006 Arts Administration Certificate LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, NY

2003 BFA Painting Massachusetts College of Art + Design, Boston, MA

WORK EXPERIENCE
2006-Present Studio Assistant, Ellen Mandelbaum Glass Art, Long Island City, NY

2006 Arts Editorial Assistant, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY

2006 Project Administrator, Women’s Studio Center

2005 Canvas Dept. Assistant, Pearl Paint Art, New York, NY

2003 Sales Assistant, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2003 Art Instructor, Roslindale Community Center, Boston, MA

2003 Painting Studio Assistant, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA

2002 Photographic Technician, Moto Photo Inc., Boston, MA

2000 Sales Supervisor, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

TRAVEL EXPERIENCE
2003 Navajo of the Southwest Art History Course/Arts & Literacy Community Service Project, Boys & Girls Club, Shiprock, NM

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:02:00 +0000

Tile Drawing
graphite on paper
33" x 22"

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:29:00 +0000

* Please visit my website @ www.monicaiancuarts.com for an updated statement, bio and resume as this is an old post.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am continually inspired and renewed by the complexities and subtleties which exist in nature. In my work I attempt to speak about the certain processes, that I feel hold many metaphors in our own growth process as individuals and as humans. My focus lies in the relationships between the process of excavation, erosion, germination, and growth. I hope to point these invisible forces which are overlooked, to show the greater functions within nature and within ourselves.

I think about a continuing narrative, the fabric of the universe, the process of drawing and the rise and fall of the breath. One beautiful motion subsiding and sustaining. These are the qualities I have observed in the landscape, in art and throughout life.

I hope to find deeper relationships through art. I relate these things to the growth process of all things. The implication of converging and diverging forces upon us and within us and the structure of things in the universe compel me. At the same time our observations deceive us. Experience contains something deeper only uttered and felt but only partially revealed. Perception bewilders and our experience tells us only that their is something missing, something more.

For this reason I choose to work with images of pathways and arches, thresholds that are somehow made visible within the periphery of a composition. I come to find the moments in between contain more relevance. That in between things there is somehow more room for truth

I am also interested in the relationship between geographical spaces and psychological landscapes. I think of the separate and unique narratives born within and shaped throughout, helped along by the natural landscape, moving through time and space like one hurtling tide of human gesture, imperfection and brilliance, rising and falling away. The depth and history of people's lives, the natural flow of water passing, rocks breaking down and wind cutting, causes my heart to soften. Somehow I am transfixed with the nuance of textures evoking this great song. In the attempt to differentiate between the vastness of the horizon and the smallness of our being, I am cheerfully overcome.

MY BOOK LIST OF DEAR TO MY HEART WORKS AND LITERATURE

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:26:00 +0000

MY FAVORITES
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - by Annie Dillard
For the Time Being - by Annie Dillard
Teaching a Stone to Talk - by Annie Dillard
The Poetics of Space - by Gaston Bachelard
Shadows, Unlocking Their Secrets from Plato to Our Time - by Robert Casati
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky - By Ellen Meloy
Wanderlust - by Rebecca Solnit
A Field Guide to Getting Lost - by Rebecca Solnit
The Poetics of Space - by Gaston Bachelard
The Power of Myth - by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
The Object Stares Back, On the Nature of Seeing - by James Elkins
On Beauty - by Elaine Scary
Air Guitar -by David Hickey
Cosmology in Antiquity - by M.R. Wright
Ways of Seeing - by John Berger
The Sense of Sight - by John Berger
Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts - by Maxine Hong Kingston
Agnes Martin - Writings- edited by HerausgegebenVon Dieter Schwartz
The Places That Scare You - by Pema Chödrön
The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation - by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke - edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell
The Essentail Rumi - translated by Coleman Barks
Jelaluddin Rumi, In the Arms of the Beloved- translated by Jonathan Starr
Rumi, The Glory of Absence - translated by Nevit O. Ergin
Fireflies - by Rabindranath Tagore
Woman Hollering Creek - by Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street - by Sandra Cisneros

ART

Agnes Martin - Writings- edited by Herausgegeben Von Dieter Schwartz
The Poetics of Space - by Gaston Bachelard
On Beauty - by Elaine Scary
Air Guitar -by David Hickey
What Painting Is - by James Elkins
The Object Stares Back, On the Nature of Seeing - by James Elkins
The Sense of Sight - by John Berger
Ways of Seeing - by John Berger
Art & Revolution - by John Berger
The Open Studio, Essays on Art and Aesthetics - by Susan Stewart
Art & Fear, Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking - by David Bayles & Ted Orland
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, A Sourcebook of Artist's writings- edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz
Out From Under Texts by Women Performance Artists- edited by Lenora Champagne
Lives and Works Talks with Women Artists, Volume 2- by Beryl Smith, Joan Arbeiter and Sally Shearer Swenson
Basic Forms, Masters of the Camera - by Bern and Hilla Becher
Success Now for Artists, 2nd Edition - by Renée Phillips
The Complete Guide to New York Art Galleries 6th Edition, The Only Comprehensive Resource of it's Kind-by Renée Phillips
Presentation Power Tools for Fine Artists, 3rd Edition - by Renée Phillips

POETRY
She Had Some Horses - by Joy Harjo
My Wicked Wicked Ways - by Sandra Cisneros
Loose Woman - by Sandra Cisneros
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon - by Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - by Pablo Neruda
Selected Poems of Lorca & Jimenez - by Robert Bly
Selected Poems of Ferderico García Lorca- Edited by Francisco García Lorca
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes-Stories From Latin America - by Thomas Colchie
An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry - edited by Elizabeth Bishop
The Serpents Tongue, Prose Poetry and Art of the New Mexico Pueblos - edited by Nancy Wood
The Essential Rilke - translated by Galway Kinnell and Hannah Liebmann
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke - edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell
Sonnets to Orpheus - by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Prophet - by Kahil Gibrain
The Essentail Rumi - translated by Coleman Barks
Jelaluddin Rumi, In the Arms of the Beloved- translated by Jonathan Starr
Rumi, The Glory of Absence - translated by Nevit O. Ergin
Fireflies - by Rabindranath Tagore
The Palm at the End of the Mind, Selected Poems and a Play - by Wallace Stevens
Selected Poems of E.E. Cummings - by Richard S. Kennedy
Personae, the Shorter Poems - by Ezra Pound
The Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot- by T.S. Eliot

THEOLOGY-SPIRITUALITY
The Places That Scare You - by Pema Chödrön
Start Where You Are, A Guide To Compassionate Living - by Pema Chödrön
When Things Fall Apart, Heart Advice for Difficult Times - by Pema Chödrön
Awaking Loving Kindness - by Pema Chödrön
Turning the Mind into an Ally - by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
The Myth of Freedom and the Way of Meditation - by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Shambhala The Sacred Path of the Warrior - by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
The Nature of Generosity - by William Kentridge
The Toah of Pooh - by Benjamin Hoff
The Prophet - by Kahil Gibrain
The Essential Rumi - translated by Coleman Barks
Jelaluddin Rumi In the Arms of the Beloved - translated by Jonathan Starr
Rumi The Glory of Absence - translated by Nevit O. Ergin
Fireflies, by Rabindranath Tagore
The Sacred and the Profane - by Mircea Elliade
The Power of Myth - by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
Gravity and Grace - by Simone Weil
Waiting for God by - Simone Weil
The Essential Tillich- by F. Forrester Church
The Asian Journals of Thomas Merton - by Thomas Merton
The Great Divorce - by C.S. Lewis
The Weight of Glory and other Addresses - by C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity - by C.S. Lewis
Life of Pi, A Novel,- by Yann Martel
Spirit Taking Form, Making A Spiritual Practice of Making Art - by Nancy Azara

PSYCHOLOGY/SOCIOLOGY
The Undiscovered Self - by Carl Jung
Man and his Symbols - edited by Carl Jung and M.L. Von Franz, Joseph l. Henderson, Jolande Jacobi, and Aniela Jaffé
The Power of Myth - by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
Life of Pi, A Novel - by Yann Martel
Ishmael - by Daniel Quinn
Notes from the Underground - by Dostoyevsky
No Exit and three other plays - by Jean Paul Sartre

OTHERS
Written on the Body - by Jeanette Winterson
Animal Dreams - by Barbara Kingsolver
Lost in Translation - by Eva Hoffman
The Bread Givers, A struggle between a father of the Old World and a daughter of the New - by Anazia Yezierska

LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - by Julia Alvarez
Woman Hollering Creek - by Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street - by Sandra Cisneros
Loose Woman - by Sandra Cisneros
My Wicked, Wicked Ways - by Sandra Cisneros
Love in the Time of Cholera - by Gabriel García Márques
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents - by Julia Alvarez
My Wicked, Wicked Ways - by Sandra Cisneros
Canek, History & Legend of a Maya Hero - by Ermilo Abreu Gomez
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon - by Pablo Neruda
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - by Pablo Neruda
Selected Poems of Lorca & Jimenez - by Robert Bly
Selected Poems of Ferderico García Lorca - edited by Francisco García Lorca
The Book of Disquiet - by Fernando Pesoa translated by Margaret Costa
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes - Stories From Latin America - by Thomas Colchie
An Anthology of Twentieth Century Brazilian Poetry - edited by Elizabeth Bishop

MIDDLE EASTERN LITERATURE
The Prophet - by Kahil Gibrain
The Essentail Rumi - translated by Coleman Barks
Jelaluddin Rumi In the Arms of the Beloved - translated by Jonathan Starr
Rumi The Glory of Absence - translated by Nevit O. Ergin
Fireflies - by Rabindranath Tagore

NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
Black Elk Speaks as told through John G. Neihardt ( Flaming Rainbow) - by Nicholas Black Elk
The Fourth World of the Hopis, The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved In Their Legends and Traditions - by Harold Corlander
Dine´ bahané The Navajo Creation Story - by Paul G. Zolbrod
American Indian Mythology - by Alice Marriott/Carol K. Archly
Dine´ A History of the Navajos - by Peter Iverson
Lakota Belief and Ritual - by James R. Walker
She Had some Horses - by Joy Harjo
The Serpents Tongue, Prose Poetry and art of the New Mexico Pueblos - edited by Nancy Wood
Canek, History & Legend of a Maya Hero - by Ermilo Abreu Gomez

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:15:00 +0000

Solitary Pair
monoprint with charcoal & graphite on paper
14" x 10"

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:00:00 +0000

Iceberg
oil on panel
12" x 12"

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 02:52:00 +0000

Day and Night
oil on canvas
36" x 36"

noreply@blogger.com (Monica Iancu Fine Art) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 01:13:00 +0000

Prospect Avenue
oil on canvas
10" x 13"