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Stoilov - detail of "Memory of Thrace I" mural, 13 ft. wide x 6 1/2 ft.in height, oils, stucco, & drawing on canvas | ||||||||
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Stoilov - "Absurd Drama" pastel on paper, 40" wide x 60".in height | ||||||||
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| MARGARITA VOINOVA, younger sister of Stoimen Stoilov, was born in Varna, Bulgaria, where she lives and works. Her hand woven tapestries decorate many hotels, banks, restaurants and cultural clubs in Bulgaria and abroad. Her paintings and watercolors are in the possession of numerous galleries, museums, and private collections in Germany, France, Norway, Italy, Finland, USA, Australia and Lebanon. She finds in her works primary archaic signs, created in a pristine naive world bound to the mythology of Earth and Air. For the artist these signs, symbolizing birds, fish and human beings embody the primary idea of the Universe and the understanding among the formations of this world. These symbols are tranquil, intense, simple, tangible and understandable by all people. The artist finds these signs in the traditions of the world civilizations and in her own being. Her contact with the Australian aborigines and their art has been a unique experience. The harmony of colour and shape is striking, surprising, and after all, convincing: through her works, the artist starts a journey back to ancient civilizations, to a culture, shared by all people. | ||||||||
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| DIANA
STOILOVA, daughter of Stoimen Stoilov, lives and works in Vienna, Austria. She
was among a small group of artists first shown at UCONN's Alexey Von Schlippe
Gallery at Avery Point in Groton, CT in 2000, when this exhibition was visited
by the Vice President of Bulgaria. In 1994, she studied at the Academy of the Beaux Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she attended a Master Class for Pressure Graphics. In 1997, she studied at the Applied Arts in Vienna. Works of the artist are in the collections of the Graphics Museum Carpenter, Bath Steben, Germany, the Dialogue Foundation, Pris, France, the Griffis Art Center, New London, CT, and in other private collections. | ||||||||
The
imagery of US Poet Laureate WILLIAM MEREDITH (1919-2007) lends itself
to deep and beautiful painterly visions. Meredith served as Chancellor of the
Academy of American Poets from 1964 to 1987. He graduated magna cum
laude from Princeton University in 1940 , writing his senior thesis on Robert
Frost. While still a college student, his first volume of poetry was
selected by Archibald MacLeish for publication in the Yale Series of Younger Poets
Competition. During World War II and the Korean Conflict, he server as a
flyer in the US Navy. From 1978 to 1980, he was Consultant in Poetry to
the Library of Congress, the position from which in 1985 he became the Poet Laureate
Consultant in Poetry to the Library of US Congress. He has the distinction
of being the first gay poet to receive this honor. Meredith taught at Princeton
University, the University of Hawaii and at Connecticut College, and in 1988
he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the Los Angeles Book Award. | ||||||||
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Curator poet Richard Harteis | ||||||||
Exhibition:
October 17 - November 29, 2008 | ||||||||
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