Painter/drawer/textile artist/researcher
Irina Oancea is a visual artist from Tulcea, Romania, a place with a rich cultural background that influenced and inspired her artistic journey. Born and raised in a family with a tradition in art and pedagogy - her parents being both art professors and artists by vocation - she upgraded her heritage by following studies at the National University of Arts/ Bucharest from where she graduated with a Bachelor in Decorative Arts (2008) and a Master in Textile Arts (2010). During her studies and since, she has participated in different group and solo exhibitions, in Romania and abroad, all the while trying to research and find her own way of viewing art and life.
‘’The work of Irina Oancea is a daring adventure which the autor is proposing us to understand the spirit of the new generation, in trying to give a sense to existence. Contrary to her poetic soul that she is showing, Irina pushes the expression to abstract, deliberately breaking the connection with the photographic existence, apparently calmly, determining us to understand, through visual language, the age feelings.
Just like a high voice, the color forced by the palette knife, cuts harshly the volumes , creates a shock to the receiver, awakening the curiosity in understanding the author’s confession . Such pictural approach, constructive abstract, refuses spatialization and actual place of aims, imagination and gesture becoming priorities and compelling.'’
Adrian Pal, visual artist