Sergei Tsvetkov
Visiting Lecturer in Art
Visual artist working in graphic media, i.e. prints, drawings, mixed media and painting.
The beauty and accidental internal structure of the eroded surface , whether it belongs to a defaced fresco, ancient architecture are metaphors for controlled and uncontrolled memory for the past and the present, collective memory that which is lost and that which is newly found. I am attracted to fragments, faded remains of the past which has led me to explore the notion of representation and reflection in the remnants of things left behind from other times and other cultures. They have beauty and sadness, complexity and simplicity all together.
The relationship of elements, details, textures, random shapes and lines, details of representational images juxtaposed in my work represent the idea of Architecture of Self (“Architettura dell'lo”). The etching plate holds the memory of each mark. Each new set of overlapping shadows, etched marks delineates the creative process and in effect underlies the singular beauty of the etching plate as a recording mechanism. It can be manipulated yet it also brings unexpected results; a combination of things that are controlled and uncontrolled, much like time itself.
- 2010-present -School of Visual Arts, Boston University, Printmaking Lecturer - courses taught: silkscreen (water based utilizing stencil, hand drawng and photo techniques), advanced figure drawing, Introduction to printmaking (relief, etching)
- 2011-Tuscany Landscape Program, Boston University, Capitignano, Italy. Plein air oil painting course.
- 2008-2011 -Boston University summer term, Drawing I •drawing from observation; still life, perspective, beginning figure drawing
- 2004-Fulbright Scholarship, Lecturer on Art/research at University of Jordan Amman, Jordan. Intaglio, relief.
- 2000, 2004, 2007,2010,2012 -University of Georgia, Cortona Study Abroad Program, Cortona, Italy. Courses taught: watercolor, painting, relief printmaking and intaglio .
- 1996-2002 -Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Jersey. Intaglio instructor.
- 1999 -Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA. Relief printmaking course.
