Artists

Urban Wild Series

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“I aspire to give viewers a sense of flight, an inner high with overview of land, and raise their inner (environmental) awareness. I also wish to impact viewers with real plants inhabiting the traditional wall art format. The plants clash with fabricated forms, and resonate with rich textures and colors, in dynamically balanced compositions. In this way, I want the take the audience on a journey trough changing landscapes in which wild natural and man made environments strive to reclaim one another.

My works can be seen as environmental wall art installations, incorporating vertical gardens with live and preserved plants. Yet they come to life as paintings and they pay equal tribute to the institution of painting and wall relief. Thematically, my work explores environmental topics and the relationship between water, vegetation and architecture in the face of climate change. My sources include environmental maps, Arte Povera, and the contemporary architecture and design. While drawing from these sources, I create a formal painterly balance in-between abstraction and representation. In this way, I create a vision of ecological balance between the natural and the man made world. Through reenacting environmental forces in pictorial space I seek to embody a sense of ‘ecological self.’

My art can be interactive with the audience as the audience is invited to participate in shaping the planted areas. As opposed to capturing a single moment, my works with live plants encompass a full span of growth and change, through metamorphosis of live plants and through human interaction.

My artworks with preserved plants explore natural environments in the context (and future) of natural history.

Some artworks are a mix containing the living greens and the plant taxidermy, with an open-ended outlook.

My freestanding sculptural tables merge my artistic vision with furniture design.”

Ivan Stojakovic

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2016 “Wildscapes,” Christian Duvernois Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2015 “Battery Park,” Site-specific public installation, Art-in-Buildings-Program, New York, NY

2014 “Urban Wild,” Honey Ramka Project Space, Brooklyn, NY

2012 “GARDEN X,” Consulate General of the Republic of Serbia, New York, NY

2009  “Wetware,” Belgrade Public Library, Belgrade, Serbia

2007  “Global Nature,” Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philladelphia, PA

2002 “Red Shift,” Gallery 401, Toronto, Canada

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2015 X-Contemporary Art Fair, The Hollows Art Space, Miami, FL

2015 “the 2% precipice,” BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY

2015 “WILD,” Gallery Nine5, New York NY

2015 “Flux Art Fair,” Harlem, New York, NY

2014 “TD Forests: Art for Trees,” Vanderbilt Hall at Grand Central Station, NYC Highline, NY

2014 “Playdate,” ARPNY’s bcs gallery, Long Island City, NY

2012 “On the Edge,” Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY

2012  “Nature’s Return,” Arsenal Gallery, New York, NY

2011 “Blossom II, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL

2010  “Heavy Metal,” Boston Children’s Museum, Boston, MA

2009 “Mother/mother,” A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2007 “Things Fall Apart,” Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY

2005 “Closed Circuits,” Belgrade City Museum, Serbia

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2015  Wave Hill Winter Work Space artist in residence, Bronx, NY

2012  Bernard Bierman award / 1st place Haym Salomon Arts Awards Competition, for artist collaborating with children (Model City from recyclables), New York, NY

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2015 Village Voice: Nomadic Existence by Alanna Schubach, NY

2015 SciArt in America: ‘Artist Ivan Stojakovic’s Mixed Media Ecology’ by Danielle Kalamars, NY

2014  Inhabitat.com: ‘Tiny Forest in a Suitcase Pops Up at Grand Central Station’ by Yuka Yoneda

2014 Art Rated’s Picks: Bushwick Open Studio 2014 by Jon Beer, Art Rated, NY

2010 “Alter Hall Art Collection at Temple University”, hardcover book with essay by Gerard Brown,

Philadelphia, PA

2010 “Heavy Metal: Reclaimed and Recycled Artwork’, The Boston Globe, Event Pick of the week by Junn

Wulff, Boston, MA

2007 Philadelphia Weekly, editor’s pick: Ivan Stojakovic: ‘Global nature’ by Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia, PA

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