faculty

Elena Peteva she/her

Associate Professor

Art & Design

Contact

508-999-9287

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College of Visual & Performing Arts 357A

Education

2007

Syracuse University

MFA in Painting

2004

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

CFA in Painting

Teaching

Painting BFA
Drawing BFA
Painting MFA
Drawing BFA
Painting and Drawing PBC

Teaching

Programs

Teaching

Courses

ART 542: Grad Studio II:Painting

Continuation of major and elective studios.

AXD 221: Figure Drawing: Form&Structure

Introduction to figure drawing. Exploration of the human figure, its gesture, rhythm, form, and structure. This course introduces essential perceptual, technical and design skills that create the framework of learning to draw from a live model. Students learn various modes of observation, representation and expression.

AXD 316: Art Careers & Practice

Preparation of Studio Art and the Expanded Field students for the professions they will be entering. Visiting art professionals in the art field, studio visits to practicing artists, and relevant field trips are essential elements of this course. Course topics include: portfolio preparation; résumé; artist statement; website; letter of intent; researching graduate programs, residencies, internships, and jobs; gallery contracts; documentation and inventory of studio work; artwork presentation and conservation.

Biography

Elena Peteva works in painting, drawing and installation. She exhibits in the US and internationally, including: European Museum of Modern Art (Barcelona, Spain), Butler Institute of American Art (Ohio), Arnot Art Museum (New York), Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Indiana), Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Pennsylvania), and numerous contemporary art galleries. Her work is in public and private art collections, including Princeton University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including three Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants.

“My work is an allegorical representation of our individual, social and global states.
The image functions as a subtle but charged signifier that creates a net of meaning. I seek a distilled representation, an impossible stillness that captures the ephemeral essence of “now”, the memory of the past and the sense of what is to come and creates a deeper reality. What I try to do in my work is define, present and illuminate things which are, perhaps, unrepresentable.”