ARTIST

 

Ivana Šrámková

I have always been interested in the inner character of people or animals and its most faithful distillation into the simple forms and volumes. Static, serene positions without movement give me generally the biggest space for what I consider as important to express. Work with scales of my figures or creation of new animal hybrids is part of my artistic manuscript, always as support of my basic concern in inner world of my creations. I am using glass as a sculptor’s material and I try to avoid formal or distracting glass effects, but the technology of glass production and processing obviously influences my art. Shortly I love pensive, dignified, sometimes monumental, always calm figures. Those, whom you can find in Egyptian or antique history or in the art of natural nations. I believe they still have much to say, specially in this disturbed times.

Education & Teaching (Selected)

1981-1987Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová, Praha,ateliér prof. Stanislava Libeňského 
1976-1980Střední uměleckoprůmyslová škola sklářská, Železný Brod


Exhibitions (Selected)

2011DOX Prague,CZ
2010Galerie Boučkův statek, Malá Skála,CZ
2008Heller Gallery, New York, USA 
Shintoistic monastery Ise, J
2007Nakama Gallery, Tokyo, J 
Czech Embassy, Tokyo, J
2006Heller Gallery, New York, USA 
Šrámková + Brychtová, Brychta, Jenštejn, CZ
2005Galerie Pokorná, Prague,CZ
2004Heller Gallery, New York, USA 
Glasgalerie Hittfeld, DE 
Gal. Lazarská, Prague, CZ
2003Šrámková + Machat, Jenštejn, CZ
2002Galerie Tunnel, Prague, CZ 
Heller Gallery, New York, USA 
Nakama Gallery, Tokyo, J
1999Nakama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 
Northbohemian Museum, Liberec,CZ 
001, J.-C.Chappelotte, Luxembourg, L
1998Studio Glass Gallery, London, UK 
Galerie Pokorná, Jánský vršek, Prague,CZ
1997Severočeské muzeum, Liberec, CZ 
Národní technické muzeum Prague,CZ
1994Galerie Groeneveld, Almelo,NL
1992Orlická a Šrámková, Gal.Červená Tráva, Prague, CZ 
Galerie Ingrid Mensendiek, Düsseldorf, DE


Collections (Selected)

Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, Praha, CZ. Národní galerie, Praha CZ. 
Severočeské muzeum, Liberec CZ. 
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK. 
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, USA. 
Museum of Modern Art, Lausanne, SWI. 
Ulster Museum, Belfast, IR., 
Museum Města Pardubice, Pardubice. CZ.