Zdravko Toic

Hiromart Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Disconnected Pattern, an exhibition of New Works by a Croatia-born New York City-based artist, Zdravko Toic.

Following to Toic’s solo-show at Hiromart Gallery held in 2010, 2011 and 2013, this show features his New works from the series he has been working for the last six years.

Toic has been working in poetic abstract forms for number of years, his early education started by exploring the meaning of abstract forms which included period studying with American Abstract Expressionist painter, Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof. Through the years, he has incorporated his life experiences into his body of work that developed into his own visual vocabulary.

His poetic abstract art invites the viewers to enjoy the changeable feelings such as a mind and body changes on an everyday basis.

Disconnected Pattern

March 4 thru. April 10, 2016

Artist:                                       Zdravko Toic

Hours:                                      1 to 7 pm, Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays (and by appointment)

Artist Statement for Disconnected Pattern

I work for a long time on this body of work, collage, trying it out with color ink, black and white ink and inserting cut outs, going back to it time and again, for the last six years. It was by no means an intellectual decision that, one day, led me to say to myself that, finally, I had it. I have a much more personal and instinctive method: I physically uncomfortable until I find a way to create my poetry. 

I detest the crossed line, dots, marks, that turn back on itself. Once, looking at my latest attempt, my discomfort left me and was replaced by happiness. I picked up my brush and drew the line, dots and strokes. But I didn't consider it definitive until after another month of silence.  

Zdravko Toic (Croatian/American)

His work exhibited in New York City, Miami and Washington D.C., as well as abroad. His selected exhibitions include a solo show at the Connecticut- Washington Art Association Gallery and the show titled “New York: New Generation” at Palazzo della Penna, the Contemporary Art Museum in Perugia, Italy. Most recent his solo-show was held at Space Debris Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey in 2014.

In addition, Toic has collaborated with choreographer Vladimir Anguelov from the Loudoun Ballet company using painting in stage set design. Their piece entitled “Emergency Ballets” debuted at the American University Experimental Theater then continued on to the French Embassy in Washington D.C. and shows in Virginia, Geneva, Austria. 

Education

American University, Washington DC- 1996, MFA, Masters of Fine Arts in Painting 

Vermont Studio Center, VT -1992/93, Artist colony for painters, sculptors and writers

College of Staten Island, S.I., NY - 1988, BS in Arts with honors

Private Study 1984-88 Milton Resnick and Patricia Passlof

Image on Top: Queue, Collage, color and sumi ink, handmade paper and string, 2015

Below Top: Fiber, Color and sumi ink and string on paper, 2015

Middle: Diversion, Collage, color and sumi ink on paper, 2015

Bottom: Fluid, Collage, color and sumi ink and handmade paper, 2015

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