(foto Teodora Pica – lucrarea Black Cloud a artistului Carlos Amorales expusă la Power Plant)

Teodora Pica – artist vizual între Canada și Romania
Născută la Brașov în anul 1964, Teodora Pica a urmat Școala și Liceul de Arte din Brașov, dupa care a studiat trei ani arhitectura la Facultatea de Arhitectură și Urbanism Ion Mincu din București.
În anul 1985 ajunge în Canada, unde a rămas și trăiește până în present.
În 1992 obține diploma de arhitect la J. H. D.Facilty of Architecture University of Architecture in Toronto, Canada.
Între anii 1992 -1996 și-a continuat studiile de pictură și desen la OCAD University în Toronto, iar în 2014 a absolvit programul Master in Arts and Arts Administration la Facultatea Goucher din Baltimore, MD, SUA.
Din anul 2000 revine anual în România, unde continuă activitatea creatoare de artist visual, la atelierul său din Brașov.
În prezent este memebră a asociației artiștilor CARFAC, din Ontario și Canada.
A avut numeroase expoziții personale și de grup în Canada, USA, Mexic, Belgia, Anglia, Venetia, dar și în România la Cluj-Napoca, Bcurești, Brasov, Jibou și Zalău. PICA a expus la Muzeul Național de Artă din Cluj-Napoca, Muzeul de Artă din Brașov, Centrul de expoziții din Râșnov, Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts in Pennsylvania, Museum of Fine Art, Durango, Mexico, Arte Contemporane Museum in Montreal, Hart House gallery, University of Toronto and Agnes Jamieson Gallery in Minden, Ontario.
Teodora Pica iși desfășoară activitatea profesională în atelierul său din Brașov, dar și în cel din Toronto, coordonează și organizează expoziții de arta contemporană atât în România, căt și în Canada.

Momentan prezintă expoziția personală PICA: From the insubordinate Gardens, în perioada 14 – 28 Octombrie, 2015. Este o expoziție cu lucrări pe hârtie executate în atelierul din Toronto și inspirate de magia Grădinii Botanice din Jibou, județul Sălaj, unde artista Teodora Pica a participat vara trecută la Simpozionul de Arte Visuale 2015. Expoziția are loc la TeodoraART Gallery în Toronto, Canada.

 

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Imagini din atelierul din Brașov

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Teodora Pica is a senior Romanian Canadian visual artist living in Toronto who maintains her practice in Toronto and in the historic village of Brasov in Transylvania, Romania. She works in painting, sculpture, experimental printmaking and photography. The third generation of a family of artists, she first studied at the Ion Mincu University of Architecture in Bucharest. She obtained a Bachelor of Architecture degree from John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto, and later, she studied painting and drawing at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. In August 2014 she graduated from Goucher College, in Baltimore, MD with a Master of Arts and Arts Administration diploma.  Pica has exhibited her work together with other independent artists internationally, collaborating with commercial and public galleries, as well as museums, in Canada, USA, Belgium, Italy, Romania and Mexico.

She works onsite at the T-ART Studio while she directs the T-ART Gallery in Toronto.  An extension of the gallery, the studio is a creative “laboratory” where Pica initiates collaborative experimental art projects.

Recent activities include Head Representative of the Visual Arts at Arts Buster Club, Upper Canada College, and, volunteer artist at the Toronto School of Art, Toronto.

Pica is a Toronto member of CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation, Le Front des Artistes Canadienes), a federally incorporated non-profit corporation operating as the sole national voice of Canada’s professional visual artists.

Education

2014                    MAAA Diploma from Goucher College, University of Baltimore Master of Arts and Arts Administration

1992- 1997          Ontario College of Art,

Painting and Drawing Department

1992                    B.Arch Diploma from John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto

Bachelor of Architecture

1983 -1985          University of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ion Mincu, Bucuresti

Solo Shows  

2015           From the Insuboedinate Gardens – T-ART Gallery

2014                    Colonizing – T-ART Gallery, Toronto

2013           Collectives -T-ART Gallery, Toronto

2012           Comoara Esentiala –  OKIAN Gallery, Brasov, Romania

2011           Hydroponics –  T-ART Gallery, Toronto

2010           Core Estate – T-ART Gallery

2009           Rouge Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

2009                    Galeria Frezia, Dej, Transylvania

2008           Galerie d’art Le Royer

2005, 2006 Galerie d’art Le Royer

2004, 2005 Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto, ON

2002, 2006 Galerie d’art Michel Bigue, Saint Sauveur des Monts, QC

1998, 2000, 2003 Teodora Art Gallery   Yorkville, Toronto, ON

1994, 1996 Della Scala Fine Art,  Toronto, ON

1994, 1996 Della Scala Fine Art, Toronto

Group Exhibitions 2005-2013

 2015  Visual Arts Symposium Exhibition, Zalau, Romania

2013  New Sculptures – Galerie Van Der Planken, Antwerp, Belgium

2012 WATER at Todmorden Mills Gallery

2010 LOOP Gallery, Toronto

2010 Nuit Blanche, Toronto

2009 Moos Gallery –April

“ 50 years anniversary”

“Collector’s Choice”

Pica, Chadwick, Etrog, Appel,

Chandra, Scott, McEwen,

Iskowitz, Snow

Toronto, On

Galerie d’Art Le Royer,Montreal, QC

Rouge Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Jasondeanart Gallery, London, England

Therymer Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee

Forest Gallery Fine Art, Guildford, England

Berengo Fine, Venice, Italy

Whistler Village Art Galleries, Whistler, BC

Koyman Art Galleries, Ottawa, Canada

Art At Five Gallery, Brighton, England

Canadian Fine Arts, Toronto, ON

Wendy  J Levy Contemporary Art, Manchester, England

John Scott Gallery, Calgary, Alberta

Ken Segal Gallery, Winnipeg MB

Middlebrook Gallery, Staunton, VA

Arton5, “Hot and Cold” Austin, TX

Mensi and Rioux, Montreal, ON

Las Olas Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Galerie D’art Yvon Desgagnes, Baie Saint Paul, QC

Gallery Gevik, Toronto, ON

Alon Zakaim Fine Art, Cork Street, London, England

 

Fairs

 2013 April           PAN, Amsterdam – Galerie Van Der Planken

2012 October      Toronto International Art Fair – Galerie Van Der Planken

2012 April           PAN, Amsterdam – Galerie Van Der Planken

2010 October      Toronto International Art Fair

2010  April          Glasgow Art Far, England

2009 October      Toronto International Art Fair

2009 April           Glasgow Art Fair, England

2006 to2008        New York International Art Fair

2000 to 2003       Toronto International Art Fair

1999 to 2003       New York International Art Fair

1996                    Miami Art Fair

Biennales

2009, 2011          Meeting Point, Arad, Transylvania

Prizes

2013           Sculptor Nica Petre Prize, Toronto

Artist Rezidence Participation

 2015           July Visual Arts Symposium at Botanical Gardens Jibou, Salaj, Romania

 Bibliography

 2013           Observatorul, Februarie 2013

2009           Observatorul 11, December14,2009, article, page16

2006-2008           Biennial Guide

Canadian Artist in Galleries, MAGAZIN’ART

09-2005      Parcours, magazine de arte, article

09-2006      MAGAZIN’ART, articles

2006                    Catalog of National Museum of Fine Arts of Brasov, Romania

2006-                   June “The finance” Romanian paper, see: www.zf.ro/articol_88385

2007 –                 UC Berkley Library

Main Stock: N7232.M543 2006

Series: Colectia Aristi Contemporani; 31

 Museums and Public Gallery Exhibitions

 2012           Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle PA – Teodora Pica solo exhibition, March

2010           Agnes Jamieson Gallery – Canadian Landscape Exhibition, Minden, Ontrio

– Juried Exhibition

2010           Museum of Fine Arts, Durango, Mexico  – Xilo Project

2009          National Museum of Fine Arts, Cluj- Napoca, Cluj, Romania

“Core Estate”   – solo exhibition

2007           Community Center Art Gallery, Rasnov, Romania – Sacred Art Exhibition, group show

2006           National Museum of Fine Arts of Brasov, Romania

Special Invitation -“Three Romanian Diaspora Artists”     Brasov, Romania,

 

Public Collections

 Hoyt Institute of fine Arts , New Castle, PA

Museum of Fine Art, Durango, Mexico

National  Museum   of  Art in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania

National   Museum   of Fine Arts of Brasov, Romania

Bombardier, Montreal

Arte Contemporane Museum, Montreal

Hart House Gallery, University of Toronto

PICA, Teodora
Born: Brasov, Romania
Live/Work: Toronto, Canada

T-ART Gallery and Studio
214 Avenue Road
Toronto, ON Canada

Contact:
http://www.teodorapica.com/
http://teodoraartgallery.com/
https://www.facebook.com/t.artgallery

Imagini din atelierul din Toronto

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Lucrări de sculptură ale Teodorei Pica

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PICA Exhibition: From the insubordinate Gardens

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Insubordiante Gardens – Introduction:
Amidst the rolling green hills and fields of Transylvania, dotted with terra cotta-coloured roofs and the sun-bleached white brick houses they top, stands a former castle now serving as the artist-in-residency where Teodora Pica completed a two-week stay. Surrounding the castle is the Jibou Botanical Garden – an exotic oasis of flora ranging from a bed of cacti, to a herbarium, to a Japanese garden. Imported as well as local plant species growing freely outside and in greenhouses juxtapose the wild and the manicured.
This natural versus cultivated contrast, which Pica deems “insubordinate” versus “subordinate,” serves as the conceptual anchor for a new series of acrylic and mixed-media paintings she created back in her Toronto studio. The artworks depict mysterious flora and seeds bursting with “insubordinate” painterly energy. Displayed like herbaria (preserved plant specimens), that is, as central images on white paper, her fantastical collection of plants and seeds stands equally as a testament of the flora’s “subordination” to orderly display and of the artist’s memory of the gardens. In other words Pica interprets her theme both literally and abstractedly; while she directly illustrates contrast, she grants equal focus to evoking the essential mood of the Jibou gardens.
Take for one instance a series of four small paintings in which bold, jagged outlines render seeds that sprout wings. The wings symbolize nascent unbridled growth, as stressed by the loose painting and scratched over delineations that render them. Simultaneously, their clean, spare compositions reflect the conscious, careful organization of a garden. As Pica wryly observes, plants “become subordinate when put in artworks.”
Here the artist implies that gardener and garden work together as a metaphor for the artist and the dilemma she faces in attaining that elusive ideal image: whether she should carefully, consciously control it, or whether she should let it take its own spontaneous course. The image, confined by the shape of the paper, the limitations of the media, and the standard rules of composition, struggles for its freedom. Ultimately, “insubordination” allows the image to bloom to its highest potential of beauty, as these splendidly uninhibited paintings perfectly demonstrate.
– Earl Miller
Short Blurb:

The paradoxical nature of gardens – that they are both wild and cultivated, or in the artist’s words, “insubordinate” and “subordinate” – is the central concept behind Teodora Pica’s new series of acrylic and mixed-media paintings. Not only does she focus on this contrast though, she also evokes the mysterious mood of what inspired her paintings: the exotic Jibou Botanical Garden in Transylvania, Romania.
– Earl Miller