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After a breakup, Moriya Neva melted her wedding ring with a ring she received after her son's birth. In this way, a family relic came to life—a small emerald ring filled with the essence of her emotions. It symbolized a new period which could not have started without the past. Her first “gemstone” picture is the result of that story: she wanted to transfer the shiny facets of personality and fate that found reflection in a gemstone to canvas. In her collection of “gemstones,” each has unique stories to tell. She creates her paintings with rough, large, carefully laid-out strokes; contrasting colors that talk to each other to create the contours of each stone; and strokes and accents created to communicate with the viewer and their space.
Neva, Moriya
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Relja Penezic is a painter, video artist, printmaker, photographer and filmmaker who earned his M.F.A. and B.F.A. at the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia. From 1976 through 1979 he held a French Government Fellowship at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France. His work is a multimedia blend that combines technology and painting, performance and video, art and craft. He exhibits his work internationally, and his paintings and media pieces are part of numerous public and private collections in the United States, Europe and Japan.
Penezic, Relja