Works

 

ARTIST

 

Ioana Stelea

Ioana Stelea developed methods to use glass engraving in contemporary ways, giving to this old and precious technique a new perspective by taking it  from it’s traditional status and including it in installation and performance art. 

 

Her work approaches themes in connection with personal or collective memories and experiences which are later transposed into glass as an inventory of objects and things that she used or seen, giving them an ephemeral and uncertain status. Sometimes the pieces have endless posibilities for display by overlapping the engraved fragments which creates new images and special visual effects. One distinct element in her work her personal alphabet which was created after a complex study of abstraction of shapes and gestures. Common elements are decomposed in letters and symbols and transposed using engraving on the glass surface.


Education & Teaching (Selected)

Ph.D in Visual Arts at the National University of Arts Bucharest, Romania, 2019.

Ph.D - Erasmus scholarship at Jan Evanghelista Purkyne, University, Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic, 2014.

MA in Glass art at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design, Department of Ceramics - Glass and Metal, Bucharest, Romania, 2010 – 2012.

BA in Glass art at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design, Department of Ceramics - Glass and

Metal, Bucharest, Romania, 2007 – 2010.



Awards / Grants (Selected)

Award for Glass Art at the National Binnale of Decorative Arts, Bucharest/Mogosoaia, Romania, 2019

Colectiv award - Award for Creative Achievements, ”ArtRozaliada 2018”,Exhibition, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

Award for finding new ways in the free creation in engraved glass and for interesting artistic execution at the 6th International Symposium of Engraved Glass, Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic, 2014

Emerging glass artist award given by The Artist Union from Romania at the Glass exhibition Salonul Sticlei, Bucharest, Romania, 2011



Collections (Selected)

Art Museum & Casa Simian, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania

The Brancovenian Palace Complex of Mogoşoaia , Mogoșoaia,

Romania

Town of Munster collection, Munster, Germany

Sklarske Museum, Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic

Spielzeugmuseum, Sugenheim, Germany