Raluca Iancu is the first of three printmakers for our "Iowa in Print" virtual artist lecture series. The Iowa City Press Co-op has invited artists who live in Iowa and use printmaking as a medium to share their artwork with us! Open to the public.
Advance registration is required. Please fill out this form or email icpresscoop@publicspaceone.com!
Raluca Iancu is currently an Assistant Professor in Art & Visual Culture, Printmaking, at Iowa State University (ISU). She earned her MFA in Studio Art, Printmaking, from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her BFA in Printmaking from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada. Iancu’s work explores disaster, memory and vulnerability through different mediums, ranging from printmaking to performance, to edible art and printed objects. She questions the way we look at tragedy as well as the way we deal with its aftermath. Iancu says, “We depend on our technology (planes, trains, automobiles) and easily forget that it is just as fallible as our bodies. At the end of the day, all physical contact is a collision with permanent repercussions, whether visible or not. Most interactions we have with other people are just like these collisions: we are selfshly oblivious to our impact on others. “
She has exhibited internationally in Poland, Macedonia, Romania, and Korea; as well as nationally. She has been an artist in residence in the United States, at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences (GA) and the Vermont Studio Center (VT), among others; as well as internationally. Most recently, she became a Miller Faculty Fellow (ISU), in Spring of 2021, as the principal investigator of a grant titled “Pressing Letters: Integrating Printmaking into Graphic Design and Creative Writing.”
Instagram: @raluca_iancu