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Gordan & Lilliana, Prom Night, May 2008 WHAT I HAVE TO SAY: My art is reflection of my own journey in
life. I was born in the former Yugoslavia(Sibenik, Croatia). In 1992, I escaped the war in my homeland (Sarajevo, Bosnia)and
was granted political asylum in the United States for my family and me. En route to our exile in America, we stopped in Philadelphia,
where we found our new place in the Sun. This city, where we made our new home and where my son's life has been saved so many
times, has become a theme and inspiration for my paintings. My life, which has been full of surprises and is very difficult
to describe in words, is visible in the colors I use for my art - brave, dynamic and unpredictable. Done in acrylic, on canvas
or black drawing paper, my paintings show a celebration of life and existence. I am spreading that celebration all over the
world, with my art included in private collections in Europe, Australia, South America, Israel, Hong-Kong, China and throughout
United States. ABOUT MY
ART : My paintings are all done in acrylic medium on canvas or black paper.Most colors I use are metalic(not visible on the
web).All of paintings are originals, framed by my biggest supporter, my husband. Even though I have paintings with same theme,
they are always different. Each one has something that another one does not have.Prints are made just for my portfolio.Almost
all my paintings are Philadelphia scenes, but very different. Rest of my art is abstract, color playing images. |
GORDAN & LILLIANA, VALENTINE DANCE, 2004
NEWS!
NEWS!
December,2008 The Philadelphia Baseball World Champions for 2008 "PHILLIES"
are invited professional artists to become involved in a new Paint the Phillie Phanatic Art Project, a city wide art program
to excite Phillies fans, increase community pride and raise money for local charities. Winning artists will have the opportunity
to paint a five-foot, fiberglass replica of the Philadelphia Phillies mascot, the Phillie Phanatic. The completed statues
will be desplayed throughout the Philadelphia area in March & April of 2009.At the completion of the project, statues
will be auctioned off with net proceeds being directed to Phillies Charities. I was part of competition together with New York poet Ronnie Norpel. December,
23.2008 we received letter from Tom Burgoyne and The Phillies Art Committee: Lilliana & Ronnie, CONGRATULATIONS! You have selected to be a participating artist
in the Phillie Phanatic Public Art Program! We love your concept of including all of the various Philadelphia icons on the Phanatic and think that will be a wonderful
addition to all the other great interpretations of the Phanatic that will be presented.
*** OTHERS ABOUT ME : Lilliana Didovic, artist in exile. Lilliana will be the featured artist at Headhouse Square.
She is a painter who whimsically portrays our Fair City with slight abstract and figurative approach...She started to do drawings
of Philadelphia to fill up the time that she spent caring for her child. These sketches developed into paintings quite unusual...Lilliana
is an artist whose consistency and hard work has achieved something far beyond her first sketch...(News Releases "Art
in Exile" by Liz Eaby, 2006) .THE PHILADELPHIA
INQUIRER, Sunday, July 23, 2006 THE BEST OF THE MAIN LINE, pg.L4 BEST BETS...ON THE RUN"Dynamic scenes of Philadelphia
by artist Lilliana S.Didovic are on display at the Penn Wynne Library. Didovic was granted political asylum by the United
States from the former Yugoslavia in 1992, and her work reflects her courage..." PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS, Friday, August
25, 2006, pg.41"BIG FAT WEEKLY PLAN-it 8/25-8/31.for the SUNDAY-first choice:Art on the Street:"Artist Lilliana
Didovic's creations will be on display at the Creative Collective Crafts and Fine Arts Fair..... OF NOTE-The Newsletter of
the Overbrook Farms Club-Fall.2006. pg.5...Additional revenue was generated by selling space in the program book and by raffle
of "Betsy Ross's House", an original painting donated by artist Lilliana Didovic..... KEY to Philadelphia, Volume
2, Issue 26, May21-June 3, 2007 Pg.3..Last year , The Creative Collective promoted exiled Bosnian painter Lilliana Didovic,
as the fair's "Featured Artist". Didovic will return this year.... INFERNO, July/August 2007, pg.14 my painting"Boathouse
row" on display for opening exibition at Da Vinci Art Alliance "Illumination & Reflection" pg.18-My painting
"Visitor" on display.."Artist Lilliana Didovic(who is not eligible for prize this year, as she was an award-winner
in last year's show), submitted one of the wittiest and most thematically appropriate works this year,Visitor:Leonardo at
Bartram's(figure 9).....(by ART HISTORIAN DR.DEBRA MILLER) PHILAFUTURE.COM, July 2007. pg.1 Three of my paintings + text are
displayed. INFERNO (Volume5, Issue 5, September-October 2007, Pg.3 "Something to smile about"-a new Gallery in Center
City Philadelphia)...While Lilliana's show focused on lively Philadelphia scenes, characterized by bright colors, exuberant
forms, and engaging mood of enchantment, as seen in her rendition of the Broad Street Parade (figure 3)...(by ART HISTORIAN
DR.DEBRA MILLER) |
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"ONE
DREAM" 24"x36"-mixed media on canvas (acrylic, rhinestones, Swarovsky crystals, fabric)."Envisioning Romeo
& Juliet"-Collaboration with International Opera Theater-Citta della Pieve, Italy, June 2006 |
"JULIA"
24"x36", acrylic on canvas." Envisioning Romeo & Juliet"-Da Vinci Art Alliance Gallery, June 2006
in collaboration with International Opera Theater, Citta della Pieve, Italy. www.internationaloperatheater.org |
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"RIALTO",
2008 (24"x30", mixed media on canvas-aceylic, rhinestones & Swarovsky Crystals), "Envisioning Othelo",
art exhibition in collaboration with Lantern Theatre, Da Vinci Art Alliance, June, 2008 |
