CU @ LUNCH TALK AT COOPER UNION
Tuesday March 5, 2019 – Room 215
Please join me at Cooper Union while I give a talk on my career trajectory after graduating. I will have a recording of the talk available, please contact me for it.
ARTNET INTERVIEW
How Artist Ioana Manolache Transforms Mass-Produced
Romanian Flags Into Inspired Works of Art
by Caroline Goldstein, February 7, 2019
Photograph by Ioana Manolache
“We caught up with the Brooklyn-based artist to discuss her creative process, and what it takes to complete her detailed paintings.”
My work was featured on Artnet! You can access the full article HERE
PRACTICE : IN PROGRESS
August 3 - February 24, 2018 | Opens August 3, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
NARS Foundation, 201 46th Street, New York NY 10013
Group show curated by Elisa Gutierrez Eriksen
Keren Anavy, Danielle Ash, Kate Bae, Niamul Bari, Julia Elsas, Nadine Mahoney, Ioana Manolache, Caitlyn McLaughlin, Trina Merry, Samantha Morris, Naomi Nakazato, Gustavo Prado, Dayana Romero, Andrew Schwartz, Homer Shew, Liza Sokolovskaya, Elena Soterakis, Tanya Steinberg, Brian Stinemetz, Brendan Sullivan, Yi Xin Tong and Flora Wilds
Practice: in Progress brings together the work of 22 artists working at 201 46th street at NARS Foundation’s 4th and 2nd floor galleries. The artists, who have worked in this building anywhere from 2 months to 6 years, have continuous practices in which they experiment and explore different methods of making art through a variety of media, themes, techniques and interests. These actions, intuitions, creativity approaches and disciplines shape both the process and final results.
Beyond the idea of exploring the processes that each artist has developed, the exhibition has taken two areas of primary focus, oscillating between identity and the act of being seen, and ones relationship to the environment and its surrounding social and political subjects. The objects presented in Practice: in Progress are like physical and mental layers of a creative process, building and growing, or otherwise being peeled back to reveal something that lies beyond the surface.
PEOPLE I LOVE WHO ARE FAR AWAY
February 1 - February 24, 2018 | Opens February 1, 6:30 - 9:00 PM
ETAY Gallery, 39 White St., New York NY 10013
PURCHASE TICKETS HERE
Group show in support of the NY Immigration Coalition, curated by Gina Malek and Christina Papanicolaou
Maria de los Angeles, Firelei Báez, Francisco Donoso, Camille Hoffman, Tenaya Izu, Gina Malek, Nicole Maloof, Ioana Manolache, Nazanin Noroozi, David Rios Ferreira, Hiba Schahbaz, Tariku Shiferaw, Eng Tay, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Victoria Udondian, Tomas Vu
The exhibition focuses on artists whose practices have been touched in some way by migration. The works embrace issues that intersect with immigration including human rights, international politics, absence, colonialism and identity-- revealing the capacity of art to speak to the strength and resilience of the immigrant community.
The opening event will feature talks by NYIC leaders outlining action and goals for 2018. Tickets to the opening will be sold with all proceeds going to NYIC. All sales will be split 50/50 between NYIC and the artists. Those who attend will have the opportunity to network with others interested in immigration reform and advocacy. The exhibition intends to bring together a community around artwork that embraces the mission of the NYIC.
BEARINGS
August 4 - September 1, 2017
NARS Foundation, 201 46th St., Brooklyn NY 11220
Keren Anavy, Niamul Bari, Aglae Bassens, Emily Berger, Kat Chamberlin, Dongfan Chen, Andre Eamiello, Devra Fox, Nadine Mahoney, Ioana Manolache, Noël St. John Harnden, Nikki Schiro, Jahyun Seo, Elena Soterakis, Brian Stinemetz, Yi Xin Tong, Gus Wheeler, Erich Winzer
The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation is pleased to announce the annual Studio Artist exhibition, a showcase of the diverse community of artists working and creating at NARS year round. Aglae Bassen’s painting lends the exhibition its title and thematic principle. The question of how to orient and locate oneself in relation to space, the other, natural and social phenomena is foregrounded in many of the works. The studio, one’s painting practice and processes, and art as self-expression and “bearing witness” are positions to be explored and staked out. The very light of Sunset Park temporally locates Ioana Manolache’s work in her studio, even as they don’t refer to anything but the conditions of their making and the status of painting. Gus Wheeler’s paintings of fans and their placement in the gallery are meant to disorient and dislocate with their overwhelming familiarity. On the other end, global warming and environmental crises locate Elena Soterakis’ paintings in the here and now. There may not be a map or instructions for our way out of the dystopic future they depict.
Photography by Ioana Manolache
OPEN STUDIOS – NARS FOUNDATION
Friday, June 2, 2017 | Hours 6 – 9 pm
Saturday, June 3, 2017 | Hours 1 – 6 pm
NARS Foundation, 201 46th Street, 4th Floor, Studio 425, Brooklyn NY 11220
Please join me this weekend for the NARS Foundation Open Studios. I will be showing recent work I have
been working on for the past year. My studio is #425 on the 4th Floor. I hope to see you there!
M\A\R\C\H CATALOGUE
March 29 - May 6, 2017
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 1018 Madison Avenue, New York NY 10075
I had the opportunity to design the catalogue for Keltie Ferris' body prints show, "M\A\R\C\H".
They are available in the gallery for the duration of the show.
Photography & Design by Ioana Manolache