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Paula CraioveanuLady with Books #3 - Surreal painting by Paula Craioveanu FRAMED2024
2024
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"Lady with Books 3", 39x23in / 100x60cm. Shipped as it is, stretched, framed from Florida. Framed size 41.5x25.7in
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This series of paintings explores stillness as a deliberate and active state, an environment of contemplation, where painting becomes a site for reflection. The works depict women seated within interior spaces—settings that function less as literal rooms than as places of introspection. Chairs recur as stabilizing forms, holding bodies that pause rather than perform.
Books appear throughout the series as recurring symbols of knowledge and interior life. Books become more than a literal object: they are symbols of internalized knowledge, memory, and intellectual inheritance. Balanced like a crown or borne as a weight, books suggest both empowerment and responsibility. Some of the figures are nude and more vulnerable, but they remain self-contained and inward-focused, resisting urgency and outward display. The weight of intellect (the books) is balanced with raw, instinctual humanity. Women are metaphorically balancing societal demands or personal aspirations, intellectual and physical grace.
Interior spaces function as places of introspection. Across the works, the recurring motifs of chairs, books, and enclosed environments establish a visual and conceptual framework centered on slowness, reflection, and embodied knowledge.
Through loose, expressive brushwork and layered color, the paintings hover between presence and dissolution, reflecting the fragile nature of attention and reflection in contemporary life.
Together, these works invite the viewer into a slowed rhythm—offering moments of pause, reflection, and reconnection with the interior self.
Reading, resting, and sitting become gestures of quiet resistance—ways of reclaiming time and reconnecting with interior life. Within a cultural moment defined by acceleration, distraction, and constant visibility, this exhibition proposes stillness as a meaningful and radical act.
Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes, in a reversal of the male-artist/female-muse pattern, validate the feminine experience, defining myself through it.
I was interested in how one experiences the body in a sensual form, and later focused on my own body, as I experience it myself, looking into the mirror and reconnecting.
My work challenges the tradition of the nude by capturing my point of view, the gaze of a female painter, by using photography, drawings, sketches, and painting on canvas, for, both physical and psychological exploration.
My art tries to create a visual language for emotion, beauty, feelings of intimacy and in the same time autonomy, captured with paint and vivid colors. My intense interest in colour and the gestures of the brush strokes are the means I see and convey the subjects in space, as living, passionate beings."
Paula Craioveanu
Biography:
Paula Craioveanu is a Romanian artist, born in 1976. She grew up surrounded by art and inspiration, in a family of artists. Trained in Bucharest and New York as an architect and painter. Holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Visual Arts. Presently working as a full-time artist.
At the age of 16, Paula Craioveanu moved to New York, where she came in contact with New York’s vibrant art scene, she graduated from high school and then studied at Parsons School of Design. Then she moved back to Romania where she studied for the next 6 years at the Architecture University in Bucharest and graduated with a degree in Architecture in 2000. In 2013 she earned a Ph.D in Visual Arts at the University of Arts in Bucharest with the theme “Geometry of Space in 17th century Dutch painting”. After this, she dedicated her full time to art, and showed her talent to the art world.
Paula Craioveanu works in acrylic and oil paints, but also pen and ink or tempera works on paper. She regularly participates in shows and exhibitions in galleries along the East and West Coast of the United States, like bG Gallery Santa Monica, Dacia Gallery and Perseus Gallery in New York.
Paula Craioveanu’s work is featured on the two most exclusive online art marketplaces, 1stDibs and Artsy.
Over the course of 20 years, Paula Craioveanu has created several painting series: “Abstract”, “Interiors”, “Nude in Interior”, “NeoMythology”. Paula Craioveanu’s work has been placed in private collection around the world, both in Europe and in the United States.
Today, Paula Craioveanu has set up studios and works in Bucharest and New York.
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Next: Works on display - December 2025, Context Art Miami.
- Creator:Paula Craioveanu (1976, Romanian)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 39 in (99.06 cm)Width: 23 in (58.42 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Forest Hills, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: Romanian-American artist. PhD in Visual Arts.1stDibs: LU2240215274302
Paula Craioveanu
Trained in Bucharest and New York as architect and painter. Holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Visual Arts. Presently working as a full-time artist.
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