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October Issue 2004
Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, NC, Features Works by Artists with NC Connections
New exhibitions, collectively entitled, The North Carolina Connection, are being presented at Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, NC, featuring the thought-provoking and surprisingly unexpected works of art of eight artists - Jim Moon, Sergei Andreevski, Ljupco Bojarov, Vladimir Borojevic, Gligor Cemerski, Slavica Janeslieva, Miroslav Masin, and Robert Cvetkovski, will be on view through Nov. 6, 2004.
Lexington, NC, artist Jim Moon has an international education. He has studied at Cooper Union in New York, UNC-Chapel Hill, the Richmond Professional Institute of the College of William and Mary, Boston Museum School, and Columbia University in the United States; Mexico City College in Mexico; and Accademia Pietro Vanucci in Perugia, Italy. In the years since his first solo exhibition in New York City in 1949, Moon has worked mainly in oil painting and serigraph. His paintings explore centuries-old human hopes and follies with a mastery of color and composition and sly wit. His works are in many public and private collections, including New York's Museum of Modern Art.
In 1967 Moon became the founding director of the Art Department of the North Carolina School of the Arts. During his tenure there he was instrumental in founding the North Carolina Dance Theater and the Alamance County Arts Council and initiated Salem College's Art Summer School Program in Asolo, Italy. In 1995 the artist founded the Asolare Fine Arts Academy as a nonprofit community service arts organization. It is very active in mentoring and creating exhibitions for artists, and its annual exhibitions at Lincoln Center's Cork Gallery in New York City have included over 40 artists from North Carolina and Virginia. In 2003 the artist created the Asolare Foundation, putting his property into a trust for the Foundation as a permanent center for the instruction and support of the arts. Moon has received several accolades for his work, including the 2004 Macedonian Spiritual Konaks International Manifestation title in Struga, Macedonia, given annually to one Macedonian and one foreign artist for their achievements in the field of the arts.
In 2002 Moon began a collaboration with Macedonian artist Sergei Andreevski, which indirectly stemmed from the meeting of three Wilmington, NC, artists with Andreevski nine years ago at the International Artists' Colony in the Monastery of St. Joakim Osogovski, resulting in an exhibition for Andreevski at Lincoln Center, followed by solo shows at the Captain White Gallery of the Alamance County Arts Council in Graham, NC, and the Domicile Gallery in Winston-Salem, NC.
Sergei Andreevski creates an original and unexpected melding of style and subject-matter in his paintings. He has become an internationally renowned artist since his graduation from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Macedonia, in 1985. He participated in a study abroad in Italy for 6 months and in Nürnberg, Germany, for 3 months, which led to an exhibition at Schloss Almoshoff Castle. Since 1985 the artist has participated in more than 200 group exhibitions combined in Macedonia, Europe, the United States, Japan, and China, and he has had solo exhibitions in approximately one dozen countries, including Germany, Bosnia, Japan, Montenegro, France, and in the US in the cities of Wilmington, Fayetteville, Graham, and Winston-Salem, NC, and in New York City at the Lincoln Center. Andreevski has also held the title Artist-in-Residence in Arhus, Denmark; Paris, France; Imadate Cho, Japan; Istanbul, Turkey; and Wilmington, NC. Additionally, the artist has participated in International Artists' Colonies in such countries as Macedonia, Bulgaria, Germany, and the United States.
Andreevski wears more than just the artist's hat, however. Since 1995 he has hosted many international artists, art scientists, and institutions organized through the Macedonian International Artists' Colonies, for whom he initiated and organized exhibitions, promotions, and studies abroad. In 2003, in collaboration with The Macedonian Museum for Contemporary Art and sponsored by the Asolare Academy of Arts, Andreevski organized and presented an exhibition of artwork from a selected group of young Macedonian artists entitled Macedonian Rainbow over New York City, which was displayed in the Cork Gallery of Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.
Andreevski has been a member of Asolare Academy of Arts since 2002 and is the recipient of nine national awards. His artwork can be found in the collections of state institutions and museums and in private collections all over the world.
The remaining six Macedonian artists, who will be featured at WVAC collectively as the Macedonian Group, have their own individually distinct styles of painting, ranging from the shockingly clear and contrasting demarcations in Miroslav Masin's work to the surreal, soothing, and meditative qualities of Slavica Janeslieva's artwork.
Ljupco Bojarov graduated from the Art Academy
in Skopje in 1984. He has exhibited professionally since 1986
in Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Sweden, and Kosovo, and he
has participated in a number of group exhibitions
including the International Biennials for graphic artists in Macedonia,
Sweden, Spain, Egypt, Serbia and Montenegro, England, France,
Greece, Italy, and the US Bojarov has also received numerous accolades
in Macedonia, Slovakia, Sweden, and Italy for his talents since
his graduation in 1984.
Vladimir Borojevic is most widely known as a caricaturist. He began publishing his caricatures in 1968 and graduated from the Pedagogical Academy in Skopje in 1971. Borojevic's professional career history includes Caricaturist and Graphic Designer for a magazine for humor and satire, Art Designer for the Studio for Cartoons and Animated Film, and Design Manager for the Studio for Design and Publicity. The artist has exhibited professionally since 1972 in Macedonia and Yugoslavia, and he is a member of four different arts associations in Macedonia and the American Biographical Institute.
Gligor Cemerski completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 1965 and participated in several studies abroad in Egypt, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the US, and France, for which he received a scholarship from the French government for graduate studies in Paris. Cemerski has worked in Paris consistently since 1970, and during the past 15 years he has been one of the regular painters of Galerie du Fleuve in Paris. The artist has exhibited professionally in both group and solo shows since 1962 in Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Egypt, Paris, the Netherlands, Washington, DC., and Wilmington and Fayetteville, NC. Until 1991 the artist also represented Macedonian and Yugoslav painting internationally, including in Serbia, Croatia, France, Italy, Egypt, Russia, Ireland, Prague (Czech Republic), Glasgow (Scotland), Spain, Denmark, Mexico City, and New York City. Cemerski has received many national and international awards for his painting. He is represented in the collections of the Vatican Museum; the World Bank, Washington, DC.; LHB Internationale Handesbank AG, Frankfurt an Main, Germany; the Museums of Contemporary Arts in Macedonia and in Belgrade, and the Arts Museum in Fayetteville, NC. He is also represented in private collections in several nations.
Slavica Janeslieva earned her BFA in 1996 and her MFA in 1998, both in printmaking, from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje. She has also participated in Artist-in-Residence programs in France and Switzerland. Janeslieva has exhibited professionally since 1995 and has participated in more than 100 group exhibitions in 18 countries, including the US, Japan, France, Germany, England, Italy, Finland, Belgium, Hungary, Romania, Poland, and Greece, among others. She has won numerous awards, including the DENES Award, an annual award for Best Young Artist in the Republic of Macedonia, established by the Civil Society Foundation in New York and the Contemporary Art Center in Skopje. Janeslieva's artwork can be found in the collections of the Jyvaskyla Art Museum in Finland and the World Bank in Washington, DC.
Miroslav Masin graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje in 1988 and completed studies abroad in Great Britain, France, and the Czech Republic. He has exhibited in professional solo exhibitions since 1988 in Macedonia, France, London, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and Berlin, and he has participated in approximately 150 group shows in Macedonia, Yugoslavia, Australia, Denmark, France, Bulgaria, Germany, Turkey, and now the US. Since 1985 Masin has created artistic installations and has also created two video clips, Circle (monkey-human-monkey) in 1995, and Birday in 2003. The artist has been a member of DLUM (the Association of Fine Art Artists of Macedonia) since 1988.
The final Macedonian artist exhibiting at WVAC in The North Carolina Connection, Robert Cvetkovski, is a professor of art in the Kriva Palanka high school. He graduated from the University of Skopje in 1989, and has exhibited in both solo and group professional exhibitions since then in Macedonia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and the United States. He has participated in several Artists' Colonies, including that of St. Joakim Osogovski in Kriva Palanka and Skopje, the "Lesnovo 1994" at the Probistip Cultural Center, and the "No Boundaries" Artists' Colony in Wilmington, NC, in 2000. This year he was also a participant in the Asolare Exhibit in Cork Gallery of the Lincoln Center in New York City. His previous solo exhibitions in America include two in 2004, at the Acme Art Center in Wilmington and the Sizl Art Gallery in Carrboro, NC.
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