Adriana Groza is a Hamilton painter originally from Romania in Eastern Europe. Her work is done in fluid acrylics.
Liquid paint used on a flat horizontal canvas and manipulated to form beautiful abstract shapes, patterns and diffusions. The biomorphic shapes both show movement and tranquility, sometimes within the same painting.
What are you communicating with your art?
I like to think that my audience gets a message of positivity, energy and hope when looking at my artworks. It is a way of perceiving or understanding time; whether it is the perspective while looking at a beach and I am grounded in a space that has been there for millennia, or being mindful of the single wave in front of me. Maybe contemplating the seasons of life when painting perennial flowers.
My art is also about letting go of control and perfection, and just being in the moment.
What media do you use and how did you get started with it? Tell us about your process.
I use professional grade Fluid acrylics (I have created, over time, my own proprietary formula) which I apply on deep edge gallery wrapped canvas and manipulate in various ways, with a diverse set of tools, never a brush. I am dedicated for now exclusively to this medium and style of painting.
I find it a great match with my personality. The paints flow with ease and minimal restrictions or coercion, yet the preparation process is lengthy and complex. I enjoy working hard to prepare and then have the art unfold quite fast before me.
Are you drawn to certain colors?
The color that I have always connected with is orange. It is the color of warmth and abundance of good energy, excitement, as well as intense and explosive beauty in nature. A special and close second place goes to blues, from aqua to royal blue, and they translate for me into calm, trust and reliability.
Blue is a grounding color that is present in most of my art.
What fight or struggle do you have regarding your art?
There are a couple of levels of “struggle” for me: balancing time spent away from my family with art events or festivals, shows, that is always difficult. I am grateful for the support of my husband and children, and to my friends for their help and understanding.
Having committed to being a full time artist earlier this year, balancing creative time with business running time is another delicate challenge. I have faith that by putting in the right intentions, good work and materials, the rest will follow and I will be able to sustain it.
Do you consider your work abstract?
I do consider myself generally an abstract artist, and that is reflected in most of my series. Even in my closest to representative paintings, the Floral series, I often “invent” the colors of the different varieties of the perennial flowers I depict.
My abstracts allow for so much freedom, from interpretation, to orientation when installing the art.
How have you seen the arts evolve in this area?
I am learning about the arts and artists of the area every day. There are many talented creators and organizations dedicated to recognizing and supporting the arts in the Central New Jersey area.
The community seems to have gained a new appreciation for performing and visual artists, since the onset of the pandemic, when all were so hard hit with closures and isolation. It is refreshing and encouraging to read about local businesses commissioning art of local artists and compensating performers for participating in events. It seems to be a generally upward and encouraging trend.
Where can we see your work?
The public can visit my personal Studio and Gallery in Hamilton (by appointment), or Princeton Makes, which is a new artist cooperative in the Princeton Shopping Center, where I have a studio that is open for the public, and at Sav’Aged Designs Gallery, at 110 A South main St. in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
In addition to these venues, I also show my art within the tri-state area at various indoor and outdoor events and galleries. Most of my artworks can be viewed and purchased on my art website: adrianagroza.art.
What is most fun about being an artist?
Many aspects of being an artist are a lot of fun. I enjoy hosting and delivering my fluid art workshops where, in an intimate and beautiful setting, I get to both entertain and share my love of fluid painting with my students, I love the energy of festivals and art events that I attend, meeting and learning from other artists, and supporting the arts though my online Facebook group.
What is on the horizon? What are you looking forward to?
After spending a couple of weeks in Romania this summer, and delivering two successful public demonstrations there, I am energized to organize my first international workshops, hopefully next year, as well as display some of my art in galleries of my home city of Cluj-Napoca, in the heart of Transylvania. This year, I look forward to creating more paintings, and engaging art lovers in my intimate size workshops!
Of all projects in 2021, I am really excited about the first Outdoor Art Gallery event in Hamilton scheduled for Oct. 16 and 17 in the quaint outdoor space of Heart of Art, on Nottingham Way. We hope that the local community will enjoy coming out for the two days, gain an appreciation for the talent that lives and works right in their backyard, and begin or continue collecting original art, take art classes and bring more color and cheer into their lives.
Adriana Groza online: Facebook, Instagram.
