Tuesday June 16th
6-8pm
Untitled, 2009, mixed media on panel, 14"x 16"
Rose Burlingham Living Room
Gallery is pleased to present New
Work by Mirjana Ciric; paintings, ceramics and works on paper inspired
by the visual richness and geometry of Islamic architecture and tile
patterns. She uses paint, collaged paper, fabric, line
drawing and crayon in her stringently intelligent investigations. In
her studio an off center mix of repeated motifs
is used in surprising ways to generate a series of loosely related,
un-precious compositions.
Ciric’s writes of the influence of travel to Spain and Morocco; the
mystery and beauty of Alhambra with its square courtyards, gardens,
geometry and the hidden poetry in these organized lines, describes as
stark, elegant with sundrenched walls…visually rich, the soft grid of
Marrakech rooftops. The works become repositories for
processing images, sensations and information.
In related clay pieces she approaches the same concerns from
another direction, seeking to preserve the integrity of the object
through the entire process...as containers with no particular purpose,
simple and straightforward objects, where the surface is finished to
fit the form, and each object arises as an event in its world.
Mirjana Ciric was born in
Sarajevo and studied art in Copenhagen,
Denmark and in Boston, at the Museum School. She lived and worked in
France and Switzerland before settling down in New York City, in
1994. Her work is exhibited in Europe, Boston, in the flat
files at Pierogi Gallery and in various group shows in New York.
