Enigma Painting

STANISLAVA STOYANOVA is a Bulgarian painter born 1971 in Sofia, where she lives and works. In 1990 she graduated the School of Applied Arts Sofia, Bulgaria and 1998 the National Academy of Art Sofia with Masters in Art degree. She has worked as Associate Professor in painting at the National Art Academy, Sofia /2007-2013/ and as Art- consultant in the Yuzina Gallery /2011-2014/ and Monev Gallery /2014-2015/ Sofia, Bulgaria. Stanislava Stoyanova’s paintings have a boldness and otherworldliness entirely their own. Her electrifying abstractions are characterized by unrestrained gestures made with bright, saturated colors and black interventions like scorched earth. She explores such elusive themes as emotion, storytelling, imagination, and spirituality in her alluring dreamlike images. Stanislava’s passion for color, ornament, design, harmony, and feminine beauty permeates her art. Her canvases are sites of ongoing tactile exchange between abstract fields of color, intuitive streaks, drips, and scribbles, lyrical lines, thick brushstrokes, and layers of paint. The artist’s vibrant expressionism is life-affirming, and imbues the work with strength, perseverance, and renewal. Her visceral physical process becomes emblematic of an emotional process and her work celebrates painting as a commanding and irresistible media. The artist taps sources deep within her perceptive understanding to inform these distinctive and evocative images. Just as she looks within herself and within the painting to pose questions, when the viewer interacts with the work, psychologically and emotionally, the concept and intention of Stoyanova’s art comes alive. CHERIL HARTUP, Curator, Ponce, Puerto Rico/USA