Vesna's Virtual Gallery

Artist's Statement, 1997

I find that my art wants me to ponder the puzzling nature of violence and tenderness in us. My paintings about Culture on one hand and War on the other hand, pushed me into the world of information, decoding and probing the line between authenticity and selective memory.

I find myself untangling the complexities between cultural history - a familiar and comfortable shell - and political history - an unfamiliar and dangerous game.
The realness of my painting grows from the tension created between a personal image and the sense of absurdity of modern existence.

At the moment the question for me is - how to visually speak of rebuilding oneself after barbaric violence and damage have taken place - in the visual language of a gentle and civilized human activity - painting.

Curriculum Vitae

• Vesna Krezich Kittelson was born in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  She grew up in the ancient city of Split in Croatia.
• She lived in Paris, Vienna, and Cambridge (England).
• Currently she lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  She works as an Adjunct Professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
• Vesna has a studio in the Traffic Zone Center For Visual Art in Minneapolis.

Education

• M.A. in Design, University of Minnesota, 1978
• B.A. in Studio Arts, University of Minnesota, 1974
• B.A. in Law, University of Zagreb, 1970

Recent Awards

• Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship, 1996
• Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant, 1993
• Open Studio Day, sponsored by Walker Art Center, 1991
• Bush Artist's Fellowship for painting, 1990

Vesna's Virtual Gallery Presents

Culture, 1996
Oil on four canvases, 170"x60"

Tower of Babel, 1996
Oil on two canvases, 100"x60"

War Garden, 1996
Acrylic on canvas and shaped portraits, 136"x50"

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Last revision: December 12, 1997