Toic has been working in poetic abstract forms for number of years, his early education started by exploring the meaning of abstract forms which included a period studying with first-generation American Abstraction artists Milton Resnick and Patricia Passlof. Through the years, he has incorporate his life experiences into his body of work that developed into his own visual vocabulary.

The exhibition will feature a collection of Toic’s works centered on the idea of dichotomy. He set out to explore fundamental question on the personal journey that affect universal language, including the idea, “my dream is your dream and my sorrow is your sorrow”. The platform for this exhibition investigates architectural landscape from simple to complex forms and the imbalance of nature. The duality of life that explores internal and external and how we relate in the world. His process is rooted in tradition and has been working with paer for the past ten years. Every aspect of his art work is touched by hand, intentionally working in this matter without the help of technology. He believes strongly in the power of human senses and feels that universe is losing its senses to technology. Toic asserts that human senses are best informed through tactile rather than cerebral and yet we need cerebral to balance our curiosity.

Toic’s recent body of work deconstructs these shared experiences by observing, absorbing and transcending.

Artist
Zdravko Toic, moved to the United States from the former Yugoslavia (now Croatia) as an adolescent and spent a large part of his formative years in New York City. Toic has concentrated on art related travels, visiting museums and archeological sites in Western Europe, Japan the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. He exhibited in New York City, Miami and Washington D.C., as well as abroad. His selected exhibitions include a solo show at the Connecticut- Washington Art Association Gallery and the show titled “New York: New Generation” at Palazzo della Penna, the Contemporary Art Museum in Perugia, Italy. In addition, Toic has collaborated with choreographer Vladimir Anguelov from the Loudoun Ballet company using painting in stage set design. Their piece entitled “Emergency Ballets” debuted at the American University Experimental Theater then continued on to the French Embassy in Washington D.C. and shows in Virginia, Geneva, Austria.

Education
American University, Washington DC- 1996, MFA, Masters of Fine Arts in Painting.
Vermont Studio Center, VT -1992/93, Artist colony for painters, sculptors and writers.
College of Staten Island, S.I., NY - 1988, BS in Arts with honors.
Private Study 1984-88 Milton Resnick and Patricia Passlof

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Opened dates: October 8 - November 14, 2010