Lara Ivanovic

Traveling through outback Australia, I was struck by the eerie, ghostly quality of the barren landscape, inhabited only by abandoned buildings and rusty cars. I tried to convey this feeling in my paintings by using impressionistic, feathery brushstrokes and blurred edges, to create a sensation of shimmering movement and an aura of mystery.

To me, the car wrecks were especially poignant - missing headlights and doors hanging off their hinges were suggestive of broken limbs, the rusty patina and peeling layers of paint on their carcasses were anthropomorphic images reminiscent of a body’s demise. As the vehicles rust, and vegetation grows up through them, or they sink into the red soil, they appear to be reclaimed by the earth. The abandoned buildings make soulful, lonely markers of time in the landscape - they too will disappear.

The following series depicts commercial buildings in New York under construction. I was again struck by the haunting quality of these as yet uninhabited structures with their gaping hollows and scaffolding, soon to be masked by windows and doors. A spooky quality remains of what once filled these spaces before they were defined by new frameworks, as well as their future unrevealed, unnamed occupiers. ...

1985-6: St Martin's School of Art, London, England
Foundation course

1986-9: Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI,
BFA Illustration

Upcoming - The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn NY May 2023
Superfine Art Fair, Manhattan, NYC, September 2023
2022 - Superfine Art Fair, NYC
2021 - VAA "Visual Art Open" online show
2020 - The Manifest Gallery’s “Being in America” group show
2020 - Featured artist on ArtsyShark
2019 - The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY, sponsored by Saatchi Participated in E-fair 2020 due to Covid
2019 - Superfine! Art Fairs - showed in NYC x 3 Wo-man and DC fair online e-fairs in 2020 due to Covid
2018 - North Charleston City Gallery, North Charleston, SC - Solo show
2017 - The Studio, New Hope, PA - Group show
2017 - Mayson Gallery, NY, NY - Group show
2017 - Mayson Gallery, NY, NY - Group show
2017 - Affordable Art Fair, NY, NY - The Art Movement, London gallery
2016 - Mayson Gallery, NY, NY - Full Circle, Five years of Mayson Gallery - Group show
2016 - Linus Galleries, Pasadena, CA - "On the move" and "Americana" Group shows2015 - EOSS Gallery, Providence RI - Solo show
2015 - Farmington Libraries' Spring Art Show - Farmington, CT - Group show
2015 - Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT - "Va Va Vroom! The Art of the Vehicle" - Group show
2015 - Silvermine Arts Guild, New Canaan, CT - "Signed, Sealed and Delivered" - Group show
2104 - Deserted Ar...