Ivana Carman
Bio: Ivana Carman (b1991 Hollywood, FL) is a contemporary painter based in NYC. She has been interested in art from an early age as well as psychology and philosophy. Those interests have now been focused on making art that explores the nature of reality, perception, and the mind through the medium of paint.
Ivana earned her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA from Columbia University in New York. Her work has been shown in The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, The Glessner House Museum in Chicago, Sullivan Galleries in Chicago, and she is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.
Instagram: @ivanacarman
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: Through an assemblage of painting, drawing, photography and printmaking, I synthesize visual languages sampled from antiquity to modernism to describe the contemporary mind and observer. My work speaks to the complex relationships we experience between virtual vs real, intimate vs public, and interior vs exterior realities — revealing the blurred lines between these seemingly separate worlds.
By reflecting on my own experiences, I hope to expose how the rich and complex inner life of a contemporary mind fragments and distorts the way we move through and see the world.
I Leave My Windows Open At Night, (60" x 96" x 1.5,” Acrylic, Oil, and Collage on Canvas, 2020); Late Night Reflection, (60" x 48" x 1.5,” Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, 2021); The Blue Studio, (48" x 120" x 1.5," Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, 2021)
First Year Exhibition
I Leave My Windows Open At Night, (60" x 96" x 1.5,” Acrylic, Oil, and Collage on Canvas, 2020)
Open Studios
