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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Monica Iancu was born in Timisoara, Romania. She earned her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art + Design, where she received departmental honors and distinction. In 2003 she was awarded a 2D Fine Arts Department Award. She has exhibited in several group shows in Massachusetts and New York including the "Small Works" juried exhibition at the Women’s Studio Center in LIC, NY. She is a member of The Drawing Center.

The artist has also been involved in arts education. As part of a cross cultural art and literacy program, she worked with Navajo children in Shiprock, New Mexico. She has been greatly influenced by her experience of the southwest landscape and her study of Native American and eastern mythology and traditions. She has also worked as a teaching artist in Roslindale, Massachusetts.

As a visual artist, working with hand made drawn and printed materials and collage, Iancu hopes to "stimulate the tactility, subtlety and infinite breath of organic life." She overlaps and transforms, drawing outward the edges in her spaces to achieve a synthesis of organic and architectural elements. Using structural forms within the landscape which refer often to doorways, posts, and archways, she aims to investigate the deeper relationships within our spatial and psychological boundaries. Her objective is to maintain an increasing awareness of process and history as it relates to and transforms the drawing and the living experience.

She adds, "The process of convergence and divergence, excavation, erosion, germination, and the structures within things compel me. These are things which I have found in the landscape. I think about a continuing narrative, the fabric of nature, drawing and breathing."

Monica Iancu currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.