DISTURBANCE of BLISS (2012) Painting by Rodica Miller

Rodica Alecsandra Miller Petrescu

Biography

I was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania where I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in Painting from the Academy of Fine Arts ‘ Nicolae Grigorescu’. In 1996, I moved to the United States where I earned an Associate in Applied Science degree in Textile/ Surface Design from Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, New York, NY in 2002. In spite of all difficulties and complications, I managed to have my own gallery, and started to promote my art through the Internet since the year of 2003.

Painting is part of myself, a spectacular ordeal with so little satisfactions, but even though: Nothing is more wonderful than the time spent in the studio, when you isolate yourself from the daily turmoil, and, with an eagerness comparable to that before a competition, you start working. It is a unique moment, when fatigue and loneliness- which crushed you like a fatality, devouring you without haste- disappear...At last, the painting is ready and speaks...Around you, there is silence. Everything has its own meaning, and tired by the achieved flight, you feel like the chronicler of the time, who recorded the results of these experiences to leave them to those who will follow the same Path...

My painting has been strongly influenced by the metaphysical surrealist painters De Chirico “ the poet of emptiness” and Rene Magritte through his philosophical investigation and impossible settings. As for my painting technique, I feel comfortable with oil on canvas and the black backgrounds represent always the Time and Outer Space for my soliloquies.

Welcome to my world!

“ Like the merging flow of joined dreams, the neo- surrealistic realms explored in the visual meditations of Rodica Alecsandra Petrescu angle into subterranean corners of the psyche. Frozen in states of becoming, they seem to taunt the meaning of actualization.”

Irving, G, Alexander- ‘ New Art International’, Book Art Press, Publishers, NY, 1999.

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• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : unknown date
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• Groups: Contemporary American Artists