Dragana B STEVANOVIC
BIO
Dragana B Stevanović
Dragana B.Stevanović was born in Belgrade, Serbia in 1975. Graduated from the Department of Painting (2001) and in 2005 got a Master’s Degree from the Department of Drawing at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad. She is currently working on her PhD thesis at the Department for Multimedia Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade. She has been teaching drawing at the Department of Fine Arts in Novi Sad since 2006.
Her artistic work centers on a line, gesture and body which she explores through the primary media of drawing and painting. During the last couple of years, she has been creating objects and assemblages.
The prevailing elements of her drawing are a direct expression and the line of gesture connected with the corporeality of the artist and the body of the subjects/objects whose actualization is happening on the surface of the drawing.
Dragana explores marginal actualization of the form, i.e. the possibility of depiction and legibility of the meanings it offers. This process is evident through providing the minimum amount of information for a figure to be recognized as male or female, as well as through positioning of a physical attitude which indicates an intention or psychological state, and sometimes even through depicting the relationship the figures display in communication.
In the drawing script, marginally abstract and figural images are represented, depending on the idea and the moment in which the script is created.
Drawing is a means of rapid recording of thoughts and ideas and it allows freshness of expression, clarity and communicative directness. Drawing is unobtrusive in its actualization and evanescent in its physical existence. Everything becomes visible in drawing.
She has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions, workshops, seminars, symposiums and projects in Serbia and abroad.
Her works are part of private collections in the USA, Italy, France, Slovenia, Austria and Germany, as well as in Telenor Collection of Contemporary Art in Belgrade.
She took part in study visits in Spain, France, Austria and the USA.