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IVA GUEORGUIEVA

Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri

Night Gallery is pleased to present Iva Gueorguieva: Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri. This is Gueorguieva’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

A textured painting with orange, teal, yellow and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva, Kukeri: Procession, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

Gueorguieva paints the space between softness and resilience, layering materials and pigments with mark making that agitates the senses against contemporary atrophy. Her work is generous yet insistent that the viewer slow down and really engage with her dimensionality, tactility and materiality to experience the land and seascapes and the mythical creatures – kukeri*, Madonnas, apocalyptic horses – as well as elephants and other animals that are more than mirrors to human subjectivity. These inhabited presences are revealed and concealed through veils of gestures and abstractions.

A textured painting with blue, orange, black and white swatches of color layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascape: Black Madonna, 2024

Detail of Seascape: Black Madonna

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascape: Black Madonna, detail, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

An acrylic and pencil painting on paper with a grey form layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva, Snowscape: Couple, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

Hauntings, warnings, secrets and dreams emerge in Gueorguieva’s painting, separated and joined together with gauze, thread, luminosity and density. She rejected the confines of the canon a long time ago to wholly embody her relationship with what lies between the cosmic and the organic, between the moon and the bottom of the ocean. Her work brings into proximity the knowledge that what is above is also below, that surface like true north is an illusion. Feeling is her compass, dissonance the canvas and memory the hand that unfixes our need for temporality.

A textured painting with the shape of a moon hovering over a hill.

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascape: Moon, 2023

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

A textured painting of a grey anthropomorphic form against an emerald green back ground.

Iva Gueorguieva, Pompeii Gray: Here Princess, Here, 2021

These transmutations evidence a master storyteller and channeler of collective sensorial registries, codices, and lexicons. While Gueorguieva is influenced by the conceptual and historical frameworks of Lee Krasner’s forceful collaging, Lucio Fontana’s anti-imperialist counternarratives and Miro’s antipaintings, she sees Dona Nelson and Thornton Dial as spirit guides to her dance with other worlds. Nelson and Dial represent the spectrum on which Gueorguieva finds not balance, but buoyancy, allowing her to explore what it means to unearth narratives and feelings that transmogrify the canvas from gestures and colors to invitations and refusals.

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

A textured painting with blue, black, red and white swatches of color layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascape: Night, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

A textured painting with orange, teal, yellow, pink and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva, Snowscape: Dawn, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

An acrylic on paper painting of a human body with a horse like head rendered in orange, yellow and grey hues.

Iva Gueorguieva, Kukeri: Self - Portrait, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

A textured painting with teal, yellow brown and pink swatched of color with layers of gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascape: Drift, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

A textured painting with pale yellows, oranges, blues and reds swatches of color layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascape: Moth, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

A textured painting in yellow and grey swatched of color with strings of gauze and string vertically integrated into the canvas.

Iva Gueorguieva, Snowscape: Grid, 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Snowscape: Grid, detail, 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Snowscape: Grid, detail, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

A textured painting with blue, burgundy, yellow and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva, Kukeri: Devotion, 2023

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

A textured painting with black, blue and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva, Kukeri: Zmei, 2024

Achieved through scale and depth, this openness to the speculative is not just perspective, but rather belief. It is a surrender to tidal movement, to Toni Morrison’s rememory, riding the ebb and flow of experience to create through ways that support survival. Gueorguieva offers these portals to decolonize us, subliming liminal yet wholly inhabitable worlds that immerse us in wondrous possibilities.

–jill moniz

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

A textured painting with blue, orange, yellow and green swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva, Kukeri: Wave, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

An acrylic and pencil work on paper with abstract anthropomorphic figures.

Iva Gueorguieva, Snowscape: Group, 2024

Installation view of Iva Gueorguieva's "Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri", 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

*Kukeri: A part of ancient Bulgarian tradition, Kukeri are masked characters clad in animal skins and clusters of bells who dance in reverie and descend upon villages in a cacophony of noise intended to clear the stagnant spirits and open space for rebirth.

An acrylic and ink work on paper with abstract anthropomorphic figures rendered in black and yellow.

Iva Gueorguieva, Night: Elephant, 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Butterfly 2, 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Butterfly 2, 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

Iva Gueorguieva, Seascapes, Snowscapes, Kukeri, installation view, 2024

An acrylic and ink work on paper with abstract anthropomorphic figures rendered in green and black.

Iva Gueorguieva, Kukeri: Here, 2022

Iva Gueorguieva (b. 1974, Sofia, Bulgaria) has presented solo exhibitions and projects at Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, CA; UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA; Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam, NL; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA; ACME, Los Angeles, CA; Frederic Snitzer, Miami, FL; and Pomona Museum of Art, Claremont, CA. Notable group shows include: CAM, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is included in the public collections of museums including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, and Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, CA. She lives and works in Los Angeles.


 

A textured painting with orange, teal, yellow and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Procession, 2024

acrylic, pencil, and gauze on canvas

110 x 80 in (279.4 x 203.2 cm)

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A textured painting with blue, orange, black and white swatches of color layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Seascape: Black Madonna, 2024

acrylic, gauze, pencil, and ink on linen

78 x 124 in (198.1 x 315 cm)

Inquire
A textured painting with the shape of a moon hovering over a hill.

Iva Gueorguieva

Seascape: Moon, 2023

acrylic and gauze on canvas

36 x 48 in (91.4 x 121.9 cm)

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An acrylic and pencil painting on paper with a grey form layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Snowscape: Couple, 2024

acrylic and pencil

15 x 12 in (38.1 x 30.5 cm)

A textured painting of a grey anthropomorphic form against an emerald green back ground.

Iva Gueorguieva

Pompeii Gray: Here Princess, Here, 2021

acrylic and collage on canvas

70 x 45 in (177.8 x 114.3 cm)

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A textured painting with blue, black, red and white swatches of color layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Seascape: Night, 2024

acrylic, gauze and oil on canvas

40 x 60 in (101.6 x 152.4 cm)

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A textured painting with orange, teal, yellow, pink and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Snowscape: Dawn, 2024

acrylic, gauze, pencil and ink on linen

78 x 110 in (198.1 x 279.4 cm)

Inquire
An acrylic on paper painting of a human body with a horse like head rendered in orange, yellow and grey hues.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Self - Portrait, 2024

acrylic

16 x 16 in (40.6 x 40.6 cm)

Inquire
A textured painting with teal, yellow brown and pink swatched of color with layers of gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Seascape: Drift, 2024

acrylic and gauze on canvas

41 x 80 in (104.1 x 203.2 cm)

Inquire
A textured painting with pale yellows, oranges, blues and reds swatches of color layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Seascape: Moth, 2024

acrylic, gauze, pencil, and ink on linen

78 x 124 in (198.1 x 315 cm)

Inquire
A textured painting in yellow and grey swatched of color with strings of gauze and string vertically integrated into the canvas.

Iva Gueorguieva

Snowscape: Grid, 2024

acrylic, collage, pencil, ink and oil on linen

86 x 76 in (218.4 x 193 cm)

Inquire
A textured painting with blue, burgundy, yellow and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Devotion, 2023

acrylic, gauze, pencil and ink on canvas

110 x 80 in (279.4 x 203.2 cm)

Inquire
A textured painting with black and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Zmei, 2024

acrylic and gauze on canvas

118 x 84 in (299.7 x 213.4 cm)

Inquire
A textured painting with blue, orange, yellow and green swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Wave, 2024

acrylic, collage, and oil on linen

80 x 65 in (203.2 x 165.1 cm)

Inquire
An acrylic and pencil work on paper with abstract anthropomorphic figures.

Iva Gueorguieva

Snowscape: Group, 2024

acrylic and pencil 

12 x 13 in (30.5 x 33 cm)

Inquire
An acrylic and ink work on paper with abstract anthropomorphic figures rendered in black and yellow.

Iva Gueorguieva

Night: Elephant, 2024

acrylic, pencil, and ink

16 x 16 in (40.6 x 40.6 cm)

Inquire
An acrylic and ink work on paper with abstract shapes in red, blue, yellow and black.

Iva Gueorguieva

Butterfly 2, 2024

acrylic, ink and gauze

16 x 16 in (40.6 x 40.6 cm)

Inquire
An acrylic and ink work on paper with abstract anthropomorphic figures rendered in green and black.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Here, 2022

ink and watercolor

15 x 12 in (38.1 x 30.5 cm)

A textured painting with orange, teal, yellow and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Procession, 2024

acrylic, pencil, and gauze on canvas

110 x 80 in (279.4 x 203.2 cm)

A textured painting with blue, orange, black and white swatches of color layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Seascape: Black Madonna, 2024

acrylic, gauze, pencil, and ink on linen

78 x 124 in (198.1 x 315 cm)

A textured painting with the shape of a moon hovering over a hill.

Iva Gueorguieva

Seascape: Moon, 2023

acrylic and gauze on canvas

36 x 48 in (91.4 x 121.9 cm)

An acrylic and pencil painting on paper with a grey form layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Snowscape: Couple, 2024

acrylic and pencil

15 x 12 in (38.1 x 30.5 cm)

A textured painting of a grey anthropomorphic form against an emerald green back ground.

Iva Gueorguieva

Pompeii Gray: Here Princess, Here, 2021

acrylic and collage on canvas

70 x 45 in (177.8 x 114.3 cm)

A textured painting with blue, black, red and white swatches of color layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Seascape: Night, 2024

acrylic, gauze and oil on canvas

40 x 60 in (101.6 x 152.4 cm)

A textured painting with orange, teal, yellow, pink and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Snowscape: Dawn, 2024

acrylic, gauze, pencil and ink on linen

78 x 110 in (198.1 x 279.4 cm)

An acrylic on paper painting of a human body with a horse like head rendered in orange, yellow and grey hues.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Self - Portrait, 2024

acrylic

16 x 16 in (40.6 x 40.6 cm)

A textured painting with teal, yellow brown and pink swatched of color with layers of gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Seascape: Drift, 2024

acrylic and gauze on canvas

41 x 80 in (104.1 x 203.2 cm)

A textured painting with pale yellows, oranges, blues and reds swatches of color layered with line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Seascape: Moth, 2024

acrylic, gauze, pencil, and ink on linen

78 x 124 in (198.1 x 315 cm)

A textured painting in yellow and grey swatched of color with strings of gauze and string vertically integrated into the canvas.

Iva Gueorguieva

Snowscape: Grid, 2024

acrylic, collage, pencil, ink and oil on linen

86 x 76 in (218.4 x 193 cm)

A textured painting with blue, burgundy, yellow and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Devotion, 2023

acrylic, gauze, pencil and ink on canvas

110 x 80 in (279.4 x 203.2 cm)

A textured painting with black and grey swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Zmei, 2024

acrylic and gauze on canvas

118 x 84 in (299.7 x 213.4 cm)

A textured painting with blue, orange, yellow and green swatches of color layered with gauze and line drawings.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Wave, 2024

acrylic, collage, and oil on linen

80 x 65 in (203.2 x 165.1 cm)

An acrylic and pencil work on paper with abstract anthropomorphic figures.

Iva Gueorguieva

Snowscape: Group, 2024

acrylic and pencil 

12 x 13 in (30.5 x 33 cm)

An acrylic and ink work on paper with abstract anthropomorphic figures rendered in black and yellow.

Iva Gueorguieva

Night: Elephant, 2024

acrylic, pencil, and ink

16 x 16 in (40.6 x 40.6 cm)

An acrylic and ink work on paper with abstract shapes in red, blue, yellow and black.

Iva Gueorguieva

Butterfly 2, 2024

acrylic, ink and gauze

16 x 16 in (40.6 x 40.6 cm)

An acrylic and ink work on paper with abstract anthropomorphic figures rendered in green and black.

Iva Gueorguieva

Kukeri: Here, 2022

ink and watercolor

15 x 12 in (38.1 x 30.5 cm)