Artist Statement
Inspiration comes from different corners of the world and different corners of the heart, everyday occurrences and hourly influences, formal education and happenstance. Ability is trained or inbred... but without a vast exposure to the world at large, ability cannot always translate to forceful, lasting, evocative art.
Viviana Svidler began life in the jewel of a city called Buenos Aires (in Argentina). The vibrancy of this city with its far-flung influences exposed the artist to myriad different cultures, styles, and ways of life. At an early age she showed tremendous artistic ability, which she channeled into her work as an architect.
Upon her family's immigration to the United States, art played second fiddle to starting a new life in middle age with four children to care-for and a career to begin, once again.
But art for the sake of art was something that as an artist she could not avoid. When her first daughter moved out, she took advantage of becoming an empty-nester and built a home studio out of her daughter's old bedroom. (Much to the chagrin of her child, but far for the better of the expression of a caged artist).
With scraps of free time shaved from here and stolen from there, the architect/artist began, once again, to explore different concepts as they app1ied to clay, as opposed to building beams and studs. Spatial relations, depth, light... as observed and not lived in, became the focus
About Viviana Svidler
Birthplace: Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Home: Los Angeles, CA
Education:
1975 University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Architecture Degree
Sculpture Training:
1992-1995 Pierce College
1997-2002 Brentwood Art Center
2002-2008 Bickart Sculpture Studio
2010- 2014 Teale Studio
2014-present Buchner Studio
Acrylic Painting:
2015-2017 American Jewish University.