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ART OPENING By Iris Kulasic Saturday, May 8 at 7:00 pm at RACCOON

PaintingIris Kulasic, born in Prijedor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, left her hometown at a young age to come to the United States. She received a full scholarship from Brown University, graduating in 1999 with a BA in Visual Arts and Art History. Her art is inspired by personal experience and shared stories of her country.

Special Guest: Nirvan Pistovljevic, classical guitar
Ethnic refreshments will be served.

ARTIST STATEMENT, by Iris Kulasic

Ever since I could hold anything that left a mark I have been painting out inner processes too pungent for to be presented in any other way. Being born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, I grew up in surroundings where old clashes with the new, where black and white battles the color, where different religions paint their beliefs on the facades of a single street, and an interplay of love and hate turns in circles too fast for the eye to follow.

OpeningAll of these harmonious disparities find a way to leak color down on my canvases and present them selves as they are - unfinished and always open for a futile discussion. The colors follow this lingering rhythm, over saturated with sensuality of Bosnian extremes. Following the long tradition of story-tellers I support this inner narrative figuratively.

Of course, the war, unavoidable circumstance of Bosnian and Herzegovinian life, introduced unbridgeable void of distances. It is truly an oxymoron how those same voids seem to be filled with half uttered theses on life, and feelings constantly changing.

One could argue that there is a strong sense of displacement and fragmentation in my work. How ever, I dare say that the work itself is placed right there, in the disarticulation of my ongoing inner discourse with myself. As such, every painting is an open-ended chronicle waiting for the viewer to finish at will.


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