Sandra
Vucicevic
Media:
Painting, Multi-Disciplinary

Studio Location:
Studio 34 -34-01 38th Ave, 4th Floor, Long Island City, NY 11101
Room/Studio#
409
Website:
Artist Bio:
SANDRA VUCICEVIC is a New York based multidisciplinary artist of Serbian origin. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art (Painting) from Hunter College, CUNY, and a law degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her work ranges from painting and drawing to conceptual projects in the field of audience-participatory performance. Her current portfolio includes a large body of vibrant paintings, in which she uses strong color shifts and expressive brush strokes to create imaginary abstract worlds
Sandra is the recipient of the 2013 Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and alumnus of the Artist Leadership Peer Circle program organized by the Queens Council on the Arts. In 2015, her project "You Are What You Eat" was selected to represent Serbia at the World Expo in Milan, Italy. She was awarded a SU-CASA artist-in-residence grant, funded by the New York City Council, for three consecutive years from 2018 to 2020. In 2022, her work was included in the U.S. Department of State program Art in Embassies (AIE). She received a 2023 Flushing Town Hall Grant for her multi-dimensional project "Postcards from the Abstract(ed) Universe."
Sandra Vucicevic's paintings can be found in private and public collections in the US and abroad.
Artist Statement:
The major inspiration behind my artwork, for many years now, has been the concept of the ambiguous nature of reality. I have always been fascinated with dreams and wondered what lies behind the facade of the world we know. Do things we recognize have a hidden side, another life, a new meaning?
My current work includes a large body of abstract paintings which explore my vision of the hazy space that exists between the two realities – the Known and the Unknown. I play with lines and expressive strokes of vibrant colors which overlap and shift into each other until they form the illusion of such a space.
In this sense, the “in-betweenness,” transition, and multi-dimensionality represent the main concepts of my work.