Bogdan Dumitrica Romania
Bogdan Dumitrica's work is informed by his love of music and literature. This is in keeping with surrealist tradition and brings to light the movement's synesthetic nature.
This body of work was created as a direct response to John Adams's musical composition, "El Dorado," and its haunting second movement, "Soledades" (Solitudes). Dumitrica's paintings allow us to see Adams's music.
Dumitrica portrays the "El Dorado" odyssey not as a journey in the literal sense but as an existential trip marked by departure, solitude, and the bittersweet recognition of life's transience. His use of trains, ships, and architectural fragments as vessels of perpetual motion creates symbols of humanity's ceaseless searching, mirroring Adams' musical exploration of yearning and isolation.
Dumitrica is a skilled painter, which is made apparent by his use of light, texture, and atmospheric effects that demonstrate his mastery and connection to traditional painting techniques transcended to contemporary surrealist concepts.
Bogdan Dumitrica received his Master of Fine Arts from California State University, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of Art Matters Foundation Grant in 1995 and awards such as First Prize the Second City Council Long Beach 2001, Honorable Mention, 1st Biennial of Ceramic, Ichon, Korea, 2001, Ink & Clay 25 Purchase Award, Cal Poly Pomona, 1999, and First Annual Riviera Fine Arts Center Competition, 1994. Dumitrica's works were included in the 1st World Ceramic Biennial 2001 Korea, Ichon, Korea, The Fifth International Biennial of Ceramics, Cairo, Egypt, in solo shows as well as group shows in galleries within United States and Europe. His works were reviewed in the Los Angeles Times Valley edition.
Bogdan Dumitrica is a Romanian-born artist living in Los Angeles.