“Everybody Has the Right to Wear a Mask”, Bogdan Dumitrică

Artist Statement

This series of eighteen paintings on paper called “Everybody Has the Right to Wear a Mask”, explores the concept of metamorphosis under the influence of time. The objects that define us at a certain moment in time change their form and their purpose through degradation and metamorphosis. One object that was once useful and representative for the human culture becomes in time through the process of metamorphosis some other object, most of the time organic, thus taking another meaning and purpose. Weather that might be a gas mask, a motorcycle helmet, a diver’s helmet, a football helmet, or a welding mask, they become under the action of time birds’ nests, tree bark, see grass or a culture of mushrooms. Even an object such as bourka that lately represented the symbol of cultural clashes, turns into clay temples that face the peril in time.  In this sense, these paintings are a small attempt into the exploration of the futility of the material world in the face of time. Therefore, who has the right to wear a mask? The viewer will find his own answer.

BOGDAN DUMITRICA

1429 1/2  South Holt Avenue

Los Angeles, CA  90035 3

Born                 June 3, l963, Ploesti, Romania

Education        2000 M.F.A., Cal. State. Univ. Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

 

EXHIBITIONS:

Solo Shows

2009   “Nourriture”, La Bezuga Gallery, Florence, Italy

2008   “Cabezas”, DCA Fine Arts, Santa Monica, CA

2002   “Identities”, Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

2000      LA Art Core, Los Angeles, CA

1994    Mythos Gallery, Burbank, CA

1991    Municipal Gallery of Bucharest, Romania

l990     Municipal Gallery of Bucharest, Romania

 

Group Shows

2012    Group Show, “Better Red than Dead, XVY and Design Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011    Group Show, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2008    Group Show, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006    Group Show, “Great American Nude”, Harry Levine Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006    Group Show, Bamboo Lane Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003    Group show, DCA Fine Arts Gallery, Venice, CA

2003    “Redux”, juried show, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002    “Manifestations II: Form and Function”, juried show, Denise Bibro Gallery, Chelsea, New York

2002    Gray McGear Modern Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA

2001    Gallery Onetwenty-eight, New York  

26^th Annual Open Art Show. Juried show, Roseville Art Center, Roseville, CA

“Urban, Suburban”, juried show, Second City Council, Long Beach, CA                                          

1^st World Ceramic Biennial 2001 Korea,  Ichon, Korea

Long Beach Museum of Art, Art Auction IX, CA

Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

2000     Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

“Immigrant Eye”, juried show, Angels Gate Gallery, San Pedro, CA

“Common Ground”, juried show, LA Art Core, Los Angeles, CA

The Fifth International Biennial of Ceramics, Cairo, Egypt

“Small Scale Religious Sculpture”, juried show, Catholic University of America, Washington,D.C.

1999      CSULA Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Angels Gate Gallery, San Pedro, CA

Remba Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

Juried show, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Ink and Clay”, juried show  Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly University, Pomona, CA

1998      Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA

Studio Open:  Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA

1997      Juried show, Solomon Gallery,  Los Angeles, CA

1996      Los Angeles County Museum of Art            

1996      Juried show, Gallery 825, W. Hollywood, CA

Studio Open:  Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA

1995      Juried show, Mythos Gallery, Burbank, CA

Jureid show, Mills Pond Art Gallery, St. James NY

Juried Art Show: Gallery 825, W. Hollywood, CA

Desmond Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Studio Open:  Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA

Mythos Gallery, Burbank, CA

1994      Juried Art Show: Center For Visual Arts, Oakland, CA

Rachele Lozzi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Palazzetti Inc., Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibition: Mythos Gallery, Burbank, CA

Parnas Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Gallery 825, W.  Hollywood, CA

Juried Art Show, Gallery825, W. Hollywood, CA

Juried Art Show, Riviera Fine Arts Center, Santa Barbara, CA

1993         Juried Art Show, LA Art Association, W. Hollywood, CA

Juried Art Show:  United Methodist Church, Santa Monica, CA

1992         Gallery of Fine Arts, CSUN, Northridge, CA

1991         Juried Art Show:  Dalles Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

1990         Galerie International, Heidelberg, Germany

Dalles Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

Kleine Galerie, Augsburg, Germany

 

Awards     First Prize, The Second City Council, Long Beach, 2001

Honorable Mention, !st Biennial of Ceramic, Ichon, Korea, 2001 

                  Ink & Clay 25 Purchase Award, Cal Poly Pomona, 1999     

                  Art Matters, 1995 Foundation Grant

                    First Annual Riviera Fine Arts Center Competition, 1994

                                              

Works In Private Collections

                    Expo Ceramic Museum, Ichon, Korea

Kellog Gallery, Pomona, CA

Jo Lauria, Glendale, CA

Lois Boardman, Pasadena, CA

Charles Steinman, Newport Beach, CA

Chris Griffith, Peekskill, NY

Maurice Keizer, Miami, FL

Pet Holman, Curacao

Femke and Esther Van Wijngarden, Amsterdam, Holland

Gwen Andersen, Amsterdam, Holland

Paola Matossi L’Orsa, Torino, Italy

Klaus Rehms, Hamburg, Germany

Sylvan Samain, Paris, France

Susan Savage, Los Angeles, CA