Drawing Through Lockdown: Artist Talk w/ Vesna Jovanovic

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Drawing Through Lockdown
Artist Talk w/ Vesna Jovanovic
Saturday, October 3
1pm - 2pm
Free (Donations welcome)
All Ages

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Join us in welcoming Chicago artist Vesna Jovanovic for an artist talk on 74 Days, a series of drawings currently on view in the main gallery. Made during the pandemic lockdown using ink, gouache, and acrylic pen on toned paper, these drawings document both the physical realities of illness and the emotional experience of confinement, creating an archive of vulnerability, resilience, and digital life. Jovanovic will discuss the conceptual underpinnings of this work, her reference materials, and how she approaches her creative process in general. Demystifying the questions and challenges that many artists face in their practice, the lecture will also include images from her studio, sketchbook pages, and examples of past work that informed this series. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.

About Vesna Jovanovic:

Vesna Jovanovic is an artist from Chicago whose work focuses on how we collectively experience the world through our bodies and how society shapes these experiences. She has worked in various disciplines over the course of her career, including ceramics and photography, and is currently concentrating on painting and drawing.

Born in Chicago, IL (1976) to working-class immigrant parents, Jovanovic spent most of her early childhood with disabilities from Polyarticular JIA. Her family moved to a coastal spa town in communist Yugoslavia to mitigate the illness, only to flee back to the United States during the Yugoslav wars. She enrolled in a Chicago public high school and became fluent in English while adapting to the new culture. The first in her family to attend college, Jovanovic pursued a BA in Fine Arts (Ceramics) and later an additional BS degree in Chemistry, both at Loyola University Chicago. After graduation she worked in a laboratory while attending The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she received a BFA in Studio Art. She also holds an MFA in Visual Arts with a concentration in Photography from The Ohio State University.

Jovanovic is a recipient of numerous artist residency fellowships including Ucross Foundation, The Studios at MASS MoCA, VCCA France, Santa Fe Art Institute, and a long-term studio residency at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center (Chicago, IL), The Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, DE), Spartanburg Art Museum (Spartanburg, SC), Urban Arts Space (Columbus, OH), CoCA Seattle (Seattle, WA), Metro Gallery at Reno City Hall (Reno, NV), Beatrice M. Haggerty Gallery at the University of Dallas (Irving, TX), and the International Museum of Surgical Science (Chicago, IL) among many other venues, and is included in permanent collections at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, International Museum of Surgical Science, and the Koehnline Museum of Art.

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3S Artspace is supported in part by grants from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and NHCF's Geoffrey E. Clark and Martha Fuller Clark Fund; and Little Bay Fund.

Thank you to our lead sponsors: AC Hotel Portsmouth, The Brook, The Kane Company/Tidemark, Katzman Contemporary Projects, Raka, Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel and Stirling Brandworks.