My images originate with words, idioms, proverbs."
"There is a constant dialogue between sign and representation inside any of these paintings. The former stems from the belief that writing and painting are one, the latter with temptation to render depth and volume on a flat surface.It is like using two dialects of the same language"
"...not definitive images but processes, shots taken while the action iis still taken place. Shapes dissolve, might coagulate again....I am interested in decay. I grew up in the middle of it, and I am surrounded by it every day, agressive or potential: our day by day technological erosion."
"Every day is different, and so are the slices of paintings I work on every day. When the painting is finished, all the fragments add up to a tally of days."
"In our pulverized art world the artist is left with one option: imagine his ( or her ) own tradition."
Romanian-born artist, lives and works in New York City.
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