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Sanda Iliescu Images | Images 2 | Images 3 | Images 4 | Images 5 | Images 6 Biography Sanda Iliescu is a practicing artist and professor of art and architecture at the University of Virginia. Her paintings, drawings and collages have been exhibited in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, as well as Italy and Germany. Her work has been exhibited at the Art Verge Art Fair, Miami (2009) and the Bridge Art Fair, Berlin (2008). Iliescu's artwork is represented by Vagabond Gallery in New York. Among her professional awards are The Rome Prize and The Distinguished Artist Award of the New Jersey State Council of the Arts. In 2004, she has been awarded the All University Teaching Award by the University of Virginia. At UVA Professor Iliescu teaches painting, drawing and design studios. Through her teaching, she seeks to deepen the dialogue between the University and the broader community. In response to a rash of sexist and racial graffiti on campus in 2005, she designed the public art project, 271 Words, in which 271 local citizens and students painted the words of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address on a public bridge in Charlottesville. In the summer of 2008, Iliescu worked with students and local citizens to create Blades of Grass: A Bus Painted for Children, a public art project sponsored by the Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department, the Piedmont Council for the Arts and The Bridge / Progressive Arts Initiative. Professor Iliescu's course Lessons in Making introduces many liberal arts students to aesthetic and ethical issues in art and design. Her upper level courses Drawing & Collage and Painting and Public Art explore theoretical and practical relationships of ethics and aesthetics. With Dean Karen Van Lengen and Professor Robin Dripps Iliescu organized the 2002 Ethics-Aesthetics Symposium at the School of Architecture. Iliescu's edited volume: The Hand and the Soul: aesthetics and ethics in architecture and art was recently published by the University of Virginia Press. Her recently published essays include “The Garden as Collage” (in the Fall 2007 issue of Studies in the History of Gardens and Landscape Design) and“Beyond Cut-And-Paste” (in the spring 2008 issue of Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm). In addition to developing her artwork, Professor Iliescu is currently working on a book manuscript About Drawing: Meditations on How and Why We Draw. Words Si Si is “yes” in Italian. Sanda starts with s. For “I see,” “I sing,” and “I make:” In Romania, Ilie is Elijah, And sound like thunder.
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