Sanda Illiescu

 Biography

Sanda Iliescu’s practice spans the media of painting, drawing, and collage. Outside the studio, she makes murals and public art installations, some with students at the University of Virginia, where she is Associate Professor of Art and Architecture. Born in Romania, Iliescu received her BSE in Civil Engineering and M.Arch in Architecture, both from Princeton University. Her professional awards include The Rome Prize, a McDowell fellowship in painting, The Distinguished Artist Award of the New Jersey State Council of the Arts, and, in 2018, the Truninger Art Fellowship in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2009, the University of Virginia Press published Iliescu’s book The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture and Art. Tentatively titled Looking Deeply: Essays on Art and Architecture, her current book manuscript will be published by Rutledge Academic Press in 2021.

Master of Architecture, AIA medal: Princeton University 1986 B.S.E. in Civil Engineering, Summa Cum Laude: Princeton University 1982
The University of Virginia
Associate Professor with tenure, in architecture and studio art 2006 to present

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, tenure-track, in architecture and studio art
Iliescu teaches drawing and painting studios, architecture seminars, and an interdisciplinary design fundamentals course. http://www.arch.virginia.edu/designfundamentals/
State University of New York at Oswego
Lecturer, Art History and Studio Art Department Iliescu taught an art history survey course.
Princeton University
Lecturer, Visual Arts Program
Iliescu taught an introductory drawing studio.
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Assistant Professor, College of Architecture
Iliescu taught design and drawing studios, and architecture seminars.
Princeton University
Lecturer, School of Architecture
Iliescu taught an undergraduate design studio.
The Hillier Group, Princeton, NJ
2000-06
1999
1997 1992-1997 1989
1989-91
1986-8
1985
With design director Terry Steelman, Iliescu designed Samsung America, an office tower and corporate headquarters in Ridgefield Park, NJ.
The built project won a Progressive Architecture citation award.
With partner Alan Chimacoff, Iliescu designed the second-place
winning entry for the Chase Manhattan Plaza Redesign competition. Geddes, Brecher, Qualls, Cunningham Architects, Princeton, NJ
With design director James Dill, Iliescu developed the schematic design and the design development of Children’ s Seashore House, a hospital and rehabilitation center built in Philadelphia, PA.
Professor Steven Kieran, Princeton University
Iliescu researched and helped develop arguments for two scholarly articles: “The Architecture of Plenty: Theory and Design in the Marketing Age” (Harvard Architectural Review, Vol. 6, 1987) and “The Image and the Empty Frame: Wu Hall and the Art of Representation”
(C. Mead, The Architecture of Robert Venturi, U. of NM Press, 1989).
Fred Travisano, Architect, Princeton, NJ 1984
Iliescu worked on the design of several apartment renovations in NYC.
Engineering & Planning Office, Princeton University 1983 Iliescu designed and supervised construction of steam tunnel extension
and above-ground access pavilion on the Princeton University campus.
Kotzias and Stamatopoulos Geotechnical Firm, Athens, Greece 1982
Iliescu worked on project for strengthening and stabilizing the foundations of the Acropolis of Athens. She gathered, analyzed and correlated data from soil-preloading projects. Results were published in The Eighth European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Bulletin.
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CURRICULUM VITAE AWARDS & GRANTS
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National Beginning Design Faculty Award
National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS)
“for sustained commitment to and impact on beginning design education”
Teaching of Writing Grant and Award
The Writing Center, University of Virginia
Extraordinary Contributor Teaching Award
UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan awarded Iliescu this honor based on a 2013 university survey that asked students and alumni to name an individual who had “made an extraordinary effort to make your undergraduate experience – or that of your fellow students – better.”
Commencement Speaker
The School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Deepening Global Engagement Grant
The University of Virginia
Richard D. Donchian Senior Faculty Fellowship in Ethics
The Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, UVA
National Endowment for the Arts, Access to Artistic Excellence Grant
Design Category, with Phoebe Crisman and Danielle Willkens
Commonwealth Environmental Leadership Award
The Charlottesville Waldorf Foundation
Professors as Writers Grant
The University of Virginia
Graham Foundation Grant for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Research and manuscript development of book published in 2009
The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Art and Architecture
All University Teaching Award
The University of Virginia
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Service Award
Architecture and the Other Arts, International Conference, Helsinki Seminar Instructor of the Year Award
College of Architecture, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Commencement Speaker
College of Architecture, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Rome Prize
2017
2016 2014
2011
2011 2010-2011 2009-10 2007 2007 2006-09
2004
2004
1996
1996
1994
The Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Fellowship in the Visual Arts The American Academy in Rome
MacDowell Fellowship in Painting 1991 MacDowell Artists Colony, Peterborough, NH
Distinguished Artist Award, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts 1991 Highest award and maximum individual artist grant
Progressive Architecture Citation Award 1991 With design director Terry Steelman, The Hillier Group, Princeton, NJ
For design of Samsung America, an office tower in Ridgefield Park, NJ
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CURRICULUM VITAE
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BOOK PUBLICATION
PUBLICA TIONS
The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture and Art 2009 Charlottesville & London: The University of Virginia Press

GALLERY REPRESENT A TION
ART EXHIBITS
Gallery Molly Krom, New York City and Berlin, Germany http://gallerykrom.com/GMK_artists.html
Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA https://www.lydmgallery.com/
Art on Paper
Group show, Pier 36 International Art Exhibit, New York City “Leaves of Grass” drawings
Six American Artists
Salon Zurcher, 56 rue Chapon, Paris, France
“Childhood Chimeras” and “Childhood Places” drawings
Picasso, Lydia and Friends
Group show, Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA “The Lotus Eaters” collages
Ménage
Three-artists show, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ “Swallows” collages and “Leaves of Grass” drawings
Art on Paper
International Art Fair—NYC / The Brooklyn Museum Group show co-sponsored by Gallery Molly Krom, NYC “Lacedaemonian Lakes” drawings
Art on Paper
International Art Fair—NYC / The Brooklyn Museum Group show co-sponsored by Gallery Molly Krom, NYC “Addresses Unknown” drawings and collages
Twenty
Group show, Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA “Floriani—no 2” collage
Sanda Iliescu: in the Garden of (Plastic) Paradise
Solo show, Gallery Molly Krom, NYC
“Birds” and “Estelle” drawings; “Trash-Bag Tree II” collage
Picasso, Lydia and Friends
2013 – present 2010 – present
March 2017 October 2016 August-Sept. 2016 June-July 2016 March 2016
March 2015
Jan. 2015 Sept.-Oct. 2014 Sept.-Oct. 2014
Group show, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
“Song for Sol—nos. 1 & 9” collages, and “Recover (D3)” drawings “Kitchen Table Collages”
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ART EXHIBITS (continued)
The Apartment
Group exhibit sponsored by The Line, 76 Greene Street, NYC “Kitchen Table Collages”
Women With Means: Collages by Elise Church and Sanda Iliescu
Two-women show at Cutlog International Art Fair “Kitchen Table Collages”
Flights of Love: Sanda Iliescu, Katerina Marcelja, Klaudia Stoll
Three-women show at Gallery Molly Krom, NYC “Ares & Aphrodite” paintings
The Hiding Places are (Utterly) Empty
Group show at Gallery Molly Krom, NYC “Kitchen Table Collages”
Art by Architects: Knowing How to See
Exhibit curated by Marvin J. Malecha & Michael Bednar Virginia Center for Architecture, Richmond, VA
“Recover (4A)” drawing
A New Natural History
Group exhibit, Ruffin Gallery, UVA Fine Arts Department Three paintings in the “Recover” series
May 2014 April 2014 Dec. 2013 Sept. 2013 April-July 2013
Oct. 2012
Picasso, Lydia and Friends
A Show Celebrating the Launch of the Lydia Csato Gasman ArchiveSept. 2012
Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA Three paintings in the “Recover” series
AAF Milan
Group show: Milan, Italy; sponsored by Vagabond Gallery, NYC “Ares & Aphrodite” series of paintings
Delineate
Invitational group show: McMaster Gallery
The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC “Loopy Lines with Yellow” paintings
Medium & Mystery: Gasman, Grant, Iliescu, Tarbell
Group show: Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA “Loopy Lines with Yellow” drawings and “Swallows” collages
Past Meets Present
Group exhibit, Ruffin Gallery, UVA Fine Arts Department “Kitchen Table Collages”
Feb. 2011 Oct. 2010
Sept.-Oct. 2010
June 2010
Lines: Paintings, Drawings, and Collages Nov. 2009-Jan. 2010 Solo show: The Dean’s Gallery, University of Virginia
“Blades of Grass” drawings and paintings and “Poem Drawing”
Verge Art Fair
Miami Beach, Miami, FL; sponsor: Vagabond Gallery
Are You Sorry for Women?
Three-artists show: Housler, Iliescu, Welshman Vagabond Gallery, NYC
AAF Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Holland; sponsor: Vagabond Gallery
The Hand and the Soul: Iliescu, LeWitt, Slutzky
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville
Dec. 2009 Oct.-Nov. 2009
Oct.-Nov. 2009 Feb.-April 2009
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CURRICULUM VITAE
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ART EXHIBITS (continued)
Nov. 2008
Oct.-Nov. 2008 March 2008 April 2007 Spring 2007 Dec. 2006 Oct. 2006 May 2006 Dec. 2005 Nov. 2005 May 2003 Sept. 2002 April 2002
Sanda Iliescu: Recent Work
Solo show: The Rowan University Gallery, Glassboro, NJ Curator: Katherine McFadden, gallery director
Bridge Art Fair: Berlin, 2008
Group show; sponsor: Vagabond Gallery Sanda Iliescu: Kitchen Table Collages
Solo show, Deborah Berke Gallery, NYC Psychoanalysis and Art, part III: Collector’s Issues
Group show, Vagabond Gallery, NYC
Paintings and Collages for the National Cancer Survivors’ Day
Group show, Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Art Basel—Miami
Group show, Miami, FL; sponsor: Vagabond Gallery Collage
Group show, Chashama Arts Organization, NYC Mirror, Mirror
Group show, The Greene County Arts Council, Catskill, NY Clothes in Art
Two-artists show, Vagabond Gallery, NYC Janus
Group show, Fendi, NYC; sponsor: American Academy in Rome Face to Face
Group show, Amarcord Gallery, Beacon, NY Collages from Rome
Solo show, Amarcord Gallery, Beacon, NY
The Difficult Dialogue
Solo show, UVA School of Architecture
In conjunction with the Ethics & Aesthetics Symposium
Charlottesville Lines
Solo show, Elmaleh Gallery, University of Virginia Drawings
Solo show, Ballinger Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Artists / Architects
Group show, The Gallery at Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ Landscapes
Solo show, The W.P.A. Gallery, Princeton, NJ Timeline
Solo show, Storrs Gallery, UNCC, Charlotte, NC Window for a Red Swallow
Group show, Aida Gallery and Habitat for Humanity, Charlotte, NC. Annual Show at the American Academy in Rome
Group show, AAR, Rome, Italy
Twines
Solo show, Storrs Gallery, The University of NC at Charlotte
Shelter
March 2001 Sept. 2000 July 1997 Feb. 1997 Oct. 1996 Aug. 1996 May 1995 March 1994 Dec. 1993
Annual invitational group show, The WPA Gallery, Princeton, NJ
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CURRICULUM VITAE
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ART EXHIBITS (continued)
PUBLIC ART
Tristele May 1993 Solo show, The WPA Gallery, Princeton, NJ
The New Jersey State Council on the Arts Exhibition 1991 Group show, The Gallery at Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Oct. 1992 Small Works 1992
Origins
Three artists show, Prallsville Mill Gallery, Stockton, NJ Juried group show, The WPA Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Stories of Ivy Road: Found Objects, Portraits, Conversations
The Jefferson School City Center, Charlottesville, VA
Jan. 2015
Iliescu, Phoebe Crisman and 15 UVA students celebrated the diversity of life along a commercial strip of Ivy Road. Two L-shaped vertical black planes, each with its own window, created a rectangular space. A third horizontal black plane held the evidence of the street: washed, ironed and cleaned fragments such as broken bottles, cigarette buts, toys, car parts and lottery tickets. Along with taped interviews and black and white portraits of passers-by, these recovered fragments painted a picture of the consumption and personal behaviors of people inhabiting the street.
Snowballs on Steps (for David Hammons) Jan. 2013 Outdoor staircase on the University of Virginia campus
After a snowfall, on the afternoon of January 24, Iliescu and her painting students created an evanescent installation. They made carefully crafted snowballs and arranged them on the steps of a prominent outdoor stair.
Un-Painting: from Yellow to White Sept. 2011 West Wing Gallery, School of Architecture, UVA
Executed over a 12-day span, this project transformed a yellow wall by gradually draining it of its color and returning it to neutral white. The project afforded passersby a visually stimulating experience of 12 transitional murals in golden yellows and complementary blues and purples.
Lines of Darkness and Light Sept. 2010 The Rotunda at the center of the UVA campus
For seven days the south columns of Jefferson’s Rotunda at UVA were veiled in dark, transparent material. Designed by Iliescu and executed by university staff and volunteers, this installation marked the Day of Dialogue at the University of Virginia, an event that focused attention on the problems of violence and intolerance on campus. http://www.virginia.edu/dayofdialogue/dayofdialogue/artproject.html
The Fun Bus: A Bus Painted for Children Aug. 2008 Charlottesville Public Schools
Working with artist volunteers and children in a city-run summer camp, Iliescu transformed an old school bus into a vividly colored “fun bus” for kids. The Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department, Piedmont Council for the Arts, and The Bridge Gallery sponsored the project.
Sixteen Silos, Sixteen Shades of Yellow
Lafarge Cement Terminal, Money Point, VA
Iliescu and Phoebe Crisman worked with student volunteers to design, construct and install 150-foot-long yellow pennants from the sides of LaFarge cement silos. The Elizabeth River Project (Norfolk), Lafarge Cement Terminal (Chesapeake), and The Institute for Environmental Negotiation at UVA sponsored this project.
Oct. 2006
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PUBLIC ART (continued)
Y ellow Submarine—T 102 (for Daisy W alker)
Public bathroom in the University Art Museum Annex, UVA
Inspired by the dedicated work of Mrs. Daisy Walker, an office janitor, Iliescu designed a mural in the public bathroom of an art museum building. The mural’s geometric shapes correspond to simple objects in the room such as the mop, bucket, soap dispenser, towel holder and grab bars.
Why Do You Draw?
The School of Architecture, UVA
July 2006
April 2006
PRESS / REVIEWS
Lessons in Living with Sanda Iliescu:
A Conversation about Failure and Growth
Virginia Architecture Magazine, Vol. 6, Dear Young Designers UVA School of Architecture
Interview with Sanda Iliescu
Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, ed., Catalyst II: Lineages and Trajectories Barcelona & NYC: Actar D/UVa: Paper Matters, pp. 134-139
Iliescu designed this collaborative project for 3rd graders from a local elementary school and students at the UVA School of Architecture. Children painted trees, flowers, buildings, and finally a collaborative mural called “Monster Making Machines.” UVA graduate student Elisa Niemack documented the work in a video, along with footage of the children describing their thoughts on what drawing meant to them.
271 Words: The Gettysburg Address on Beta Bridge Sept. 2005 Beta Bridge on the UVA campus
On the parapets of a campus bridge at the University of Virginia, Iliescu orchestrated the painting of the Gettysburg Address by passersby. Each participant painted a single word in the 271-word address. The project was conceived in response to the painting of racist and hate graffiti on this bridge and other locations on campus.
Herakles Nov. 1994 The American Academy in Rome; Rome, Italy
Iliescu designed the stage set for John Eaton’s opera Herakles, performed at the American Academy. Along with paint, wood and other conventional materials, Iliescu used plastic trash bags, a lightweight and inexpensive material that she processed to create different textures and light effects.
Reflections on a Drawing by Sanda Iliescu
fall 2016
2016
2014 May 8-11, 2014
April 24, 2013 Oct. 5, 2011 Sept. 30, 2010
Phoebe Crisman in Souvenir-Nostalgia: Room 1000, no. 2, UC Berkley Journal of the College of Environmental Design, pp. 159-162
Cutlog 2014
The Wall Street Journal International / on-line publication “Kitchen Table Collage: Phoebe, no. 9”
http://wsimag.com/art/8988-cutlog-2014
UVA Architecture Students Create ‘American Flag’ Art
Robert Hull, UVA Today / on-line publication Un-Painting Project is a Lesson in Public Art
Jane Ford, UVA Today / on-line publication
Lines of Darkness & Light:
Veiling of the Rotunda as Communal Act
A. J. Artemel, The Declaration, UVA student newspaper
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CURRICULUM VITAE
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PRESS / REVIEWS (continued)
UVA Slaying Prompts Campus Safety Talks
Lines of Darkness and Light, The Washington Post Death Spurs Day of Dialogue at UVA
Lines of Darkness and Light, The Baltimore Sun
UVA Set for Day of Dialogue
Brian McNeill, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA Sanda Iliescu and the Day of Dialogue at UVA
Radio interview with Sandy Houseman, NPR
The University Prepares for Day of Dialogue
The Cavalier Daily, Charlottesville, VA Healing Talk: Event Encourages Examination
of University Culture, Virginia Magazine The Hand and the Soul: Iliescu, LeWitt, Slutzky
Jane Ford, UVA Today / on-line publication
Faculty, Students and Artists Work to Align ‘The Hand and the Soul’
Derry Wade, UVA Today / on-line publication Get on the Bus
David Maurer, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA The Fun Bus
Jane Ford, UVA Today / on-line publication Flying High
The Daily Progress, Charlottesville VA
Public Art Project:
UVA Professors Celebrate Money Point Clean-Up Plan Inside UVA, vol. 36, no. 16 / on-line publication
The Self-portraits of Sanda Iliescu: An Interface
fall 2010 Jan. 2009 Jan. 2009
William Fried, Lunch—Trespass, no. 1, UVA School of Architecture Beta Bridge Art Project Counters Intolerance
Jane Ford, Inside UVA / on-line publication Interview on Beta Bridge
Carlos Santos, The Richmond Times Dispatch University Students Make Statement on Beta Bridge
Melanie Meyhew, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA Four Score…
Sam Stoller, The Cavalier Daily, Charlottesville, VA Between Ethics and Aesthetics
Explorations: Research Highlights from the University of Virginia
Iliescu’s Art is Metaphor for Democracy
Jane Ford, Inside UVA / on-line publication Seminar Instructor of the Year
Brian Brooks, The Post & Lintel, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
Making Her Own Space:
Refugee, Homeless Student, UNCC Teacher
Richard Maschal, The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC
Sept. 25, 2010 Sept. 24, 2010 Sept. 23, 2010 Sept. 21, 2010 Sept. 20, 2010
July 27, 2008 July 17, 2008 Oct. 19, 2006 October 2006
Spring 2006 Sept. 23, 2005 Sept. 18, 2005 Sept. 15, 2005 Sept. 14, 2005
spring 2004 July 2002 Oct. 1996
Dec. 5, 1993
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CURRICULUM VIT AE
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PRESS / REVIEWS (continued)
PUBLIC LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
Rome Prize Winners are Announced
The New York Times
Creations by Fellowship Winners
Vivien Raynor, The New York Times
A Ten Story Office Tower in Ridgefield Park, NJ
Progressive Architecture,
Cleveland OH: Penton Publishing Inc., pp. 108-109
Ethical Questions: Contextualizing Data Visualization
Datapalooza International Conference, University of Virginia
Leaves of Grass:
A Contemplative and Participatory Drawing Workshop
(with Phoebe Crisman) Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum (ACSF) Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine
Contemplation and the Everyday: A Mural in a Public Bathroom
Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum (ACSF) Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine
Beginning with Collage: Towards an Open,
Collaborative, and Interdisciplinary Way of Making
National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) Begin with Why: Ethics and Values in Beginning Design, no. 33 Salt Lake City, Utah
The Value of Participatory and Public Art Projects in Sustainability Education
(with Phoebe Crisman) Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Baltimore, MD
Janitors, Bathrooms, Bridges, and Buses May 2015 & April 2016 UVA School of Architecture: Prof. Phoebe Crisman’s
Global Sustainability class, Arch. 2150
Images at the End of Life
UVA School of Medicine, The Heart of Medicine program
Art workshop and panel discussion with Prof. Marcia Childress
Ethics in Public Art
The University of Florida at Gainesville
Transforming Sustainability Education through Public Art
(with Phoebe Crisman), Association for the Advancement
of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Minneapolis, MN
Stories of Ivy Road: Roles for Public Art in Sustainability Planning & Community
(with Phoebe Crisman) Association for the Advancement
of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Minneapolis, MN
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Collage
UVA School of Architecture, Prof. Kirk Martini’s Photography and Digital Media class
The Ethics of Making: How, Where and For Whom We Design
The Harvard Graduate School of Design
Women in Design
Symposium panelist, The Harvard Graduate School of Design
March 2016
Oct. 2015 Oct. 2015
Oct. 2015
Oct. 2015
April 2015 April 2015
April 12, 1993 July 28, 1991 Jan. 1991
Nov. 2017 May 2017
May 2017
March 2017
Oct. 2016
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CURRICULUM VITAE
PUBLIC LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
SANDA Heart of Medicine: A Symposium at the UVA School of Medicine
Art workshop and panel discussion with Prof. Marcia Childress
Conceptual Art: Systematic Processes and Artistic Expression
UVA Department of Art, Prof. George Sampson’s class
The Arts & Education
Form and Narrative in the paintings of Giotto & Duccio
UVA Department of Art, Prof. Paul Barolsky’s class
High Renaissance & Mannerist Art
Notes on Openness: Ethics & Aesthetics in Participatory Art
UVA School of Architecture, Prof. Daniel Bluestone’s class
Architecture Common Course
Field-Making: Re-imagining the Figure Ground Problem
In the Beginning / In the End, National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS), Lincoln, NE College of Architecture, University of Nebraska
Public & Ephemeral: Art Beyond Pleasing Objects
The Artist’s Forum at Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Art as Concept & Art as Experience
UVA Computer Science Department, Prof. Kevin Sullivan’s Computational Photography class
Healing Arts: In the Hospital, in the Hands
Medical Center Hour, UVA School of Medicine
Shared Doings & Sayings: Symposium on Art, Memory and Healing
A multi-disciplinary discussion on the role of the arts in the lives of people with dementia; the UVA Architecture School; event sponsors: UVA’s Institute on Aging and The Alzheimer’s Association.
ILIESCU
Feb. 2015 Feb. 2012
Sept. 2011 Sept. 2011 April 2011
Nov. 2010 Nov. 2010
Oct. 2010 Oct. 2010
Oct. 2010
Green Art & Architecture:
Collaborations through Service Research Learning
(with Prof. Phoebe Crisman) Denver, CO; Association
for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education,
(AASHE): Campus Initiative to Catalyze a Just and Sustainable World
Ten Lessons in Composition
UVA Computer Science Department, Prof. Kevin Sullivan’s Computational Photography class
Collage: An Open Aesthetic for Art and Architecture
Topic chair (panelists: Federica Goffi, Ron Jelaco, Dennis Maher) ACSA National Conference, Portland, OR
Color and the Sense of Touch
Presentation to The Sloane Society for the Humanities in Medicine The University of Virginia School of Medicine
The Search for Vision’s Body:
The Role of Touch in Painting and Architecture
Panel co-chair with Thomas Berding, Professor of Painting Michigan State University, at College Arts Association (CAA) 96th Annual Conference in Dallas, TX
Ethics and Aesthetics in Art and Architecture
The Faculty Club, University of Virginia
Sept. 2010 March 2009 Jan. 2009 Feb. 2008
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PUBLIC LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
(continued)
The Art of Collage
The Artists’ Network of Great Neck, Great Neck, NY
Eros as Collage: Plato’s Symposium and the Aesthetics of Junk
Chashama, non-profit arts organization, NYC
The Art of Robert Slutzky
The Cooper Union, Erwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, NYC Symposium in memory of Robert Slutzky
National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) No. 21, The Beginner’s Mind, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
June 2007 Nov. 2006 Oct. 2005
SELECTED ART & DESIGN REVIEWS
SELECTED SERVICE
Meanings in Drawings
School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Venetian Streets and Campi from the 6th to the 17th Century
Little Architects, Charlotte, NC, and the College of Architecture University of North Carolina at Charlotte
T ulane University
The School of Architecture
University of Pennsylvania
The School of Architecture, the Graduate School of Fine Arts
Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Visiting Critic in Painting
The Rome Graduate Program, Rome, Italy
Promotion and Tenure Review Committee
The School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Graduate Admissions Committee
The School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Study Report on the Iowa State Design Foundations Program
(with John Roach, Parsons School of Design)
Iowa State College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
The President’s Culture Working Committee
1997 1996
2017 2007, 1997 1994
2016 to present 2006 to present Sept. 2016
2015
The Black Box Project
Feb. 2005 The Garden as Collage 2003
The Richmond Architects’ Forum, Richmond, VA
April 2002 this Ethics & Aesthetics Symposium at the UVA School of Architecture.
The Black Box Project and Other Ways to Reintegrate Our Senses 2002 90th National Conference of the College Art Association (CAA)
Philadelphia, PA
Brancusi in Romania 1997 The Visual Arts Lecture Series, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
The Difficult Dialogue: Ethics & Aesthetics
With UVA Prof. Robin Dripps, Iliescu organized and moderated
Iliescu worked with UVA President Teresa Sullivan and other faculty, staff members, students, and alumni to examine the UVA student culture; she contributed to report recommending the implementation of university-wide positive changes.
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SELECTED SERVICE
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The Weekly Art Workshop
(with Lauren Catlett, UVA alumna) art lessons for residents at Morningside extended care facility, Charlottesville, VA
The Dean’ s Gallery
Exhibition designer and curator; School of Architecture, UVA Website designer for the Dean’s Gallery Website
The Day of Dialogue
Member of the organizing committee for The Day of Dialogue at the University of Virginia—an event that focused attention on the problems of intolerance, and violence to women on campus. http://www.virginia.edu/dayofdialogue/dayofdialogue/artproject.html
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #394
(with Sofia LeWitt, Roland Lusk, and nine volunteer artists) Installation at The University of Virginia Art Museum
Charlottesville Summer Camp Art Workshops
Drawing classes for children (K through 12) in the Charlottesville Summer Camp Program; sponsors: The Bridge arts organization and The Charlottesville Parks & Recreation Department
The Early Visions Program
(with UVA students) painting classes for at-risk teenagers from the Charlottesville High School; sponsor: Fralin Museum of Art, UVA
2015 2010-2014 Sept. 2010
2009 2008
2002-04
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Master of Architecture, AIA medal: Princeton University 1986 B.S.E. in Civil Engineering, Summa Cum Laude: Princeton University 1982

The University of Virginia

Associate Professor with tenure, in architecture and studio art 2006 to present

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, tenure-track, in architecture and studio art

Iliescu teaches drawing and painting studios, architecture seminars, and an interdisciplinary design fundamentals course.http://www.arch.virginia.edu/designfundamentals/

State University of New York at Oswego

Lecturer, Art History and Studio Art Department Iliescu taught an art history survey course.

Princeton University

Lecturer, Visual Arts Program
Iliescu taught an introductory drawing studio.

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Assistant Professor, College of Architecture
Iliescu taught design and drawing studios, and architecture seminars.

Princeton University

Lecturer, School of Architecture
Iliescu taught an undergraduate design studio.

The Hillier Group, Princeton, NJ

2000-06

1999

1997 1992-1997 1989

1989-91

1986-8

1985

With design director Terry Steelman, Iliescu designed Samsung America,an office tower and corporate headquarters in Ridgefield Park, NJ.
The built project won a Progressive Architecture citation award.
With partner Alan Chimacoff, Iliescu designed the second-place

winning entry for the Chase Manhattan Plaza Redesign competition.Geddes, Brecher, Qualls, Cunningham Architects, Princeton, NJ

With design director James Dill, Iliescu developed the schematic design and the design development of Children’ s Seashore House, a hospital and rehabilitation center built in Philadelphia, PA.

Professor Steven Kieran, Princeton University

Iliescu researched and helped develop arguments for two scholarly articles: “The Architecture of Plenty: Theory and Design in the Marketing Age” (Harvard Architectural Review, Vol. 6, 1987) and “The Image and the Empty Frame: Wu Hall and the Art of Representation”

(C. Mead, The Architecture of Robert Venturi, U. of NM Press, 1989).
Fred Travisano, Architect, Princeton, NJ 1984

Iliescu worked on the design of several apartment renovations in NYC.

Engineering & Planning Office, Princeton University 1983 Iliescu designed and supervised construction of steam tunnel extension

and above-ground access pavilion on the Princeton University campus.

Kotzias and Stamatopoulos Geotechnical Firm, Athens, Greece 1982

Iliescu worked on project for strengthening and stabilizing the foundations of the Acropolis of Athens. She gathered, analyzed and correlated data from soil-preloading projects. Results were published in The Eighth European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Bulletin.

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CURRICULUM VITAE AWARDS & GRANTS

SANDA ILIESCU

National Beginning Design Faculty Award

National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS)
“for sustained commitment to and impact on beginning design education”

Teaching of Writing Grant and Award

The Writing Center, University of Virginia

Extraordinary Contributor Teaching Award

UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan awarded Iliescu this honor based on a 2013 university survey that asked students and alumni to name an individual who had “made an extraordinary effort to make your undergraduate experience – or that of your fellow students – better.”

Commencement Speaker

The School of Architecture, University of Virginia

Deepening Global Engagement Grant

The University of Virginia

Richard D. Donchian Senior Faculty Fellowship in Ethics

The Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, UVA

National Endowment for the Arts, Access to Artistic Excellence Grant

Design Category, with Phoebe Crisman and Danielle Willkens

Commonwealth Environmental Leadership Award

The Charlottesville Waldorf Foundation

Professors as Writers Grant

The University of Virginia

Graham Foundation Grant for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Research and manuscript development of book published in 2009

The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Art and Architecture

All University Teaching Award

The University of Virginia

Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Service Award

Architecture and the Other Arts, International Conference, HelsinkiSeminar Instructor of the Year Award

College of Architecture, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Commencement Speaker

College of Architecture, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The Rome Prize

2017

2016 2014

2011

2011 2010-2011 2009-10 2007 2007 2006-09

     2004
     2004
     1996
     1996
     1994

The Marion O. and Maximilian E. Hoffman Fellowship in the Visual Arts The American Academy in Rome

MacDowell Fellowship in Painting 1991 MacDowell Artists Colony, Peterborough, NH

Distinguished Artist Award, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts 1991 Highest award and maximum individual artist grant

Progressive Architecture Citation Award 1991 With design director Terry Steelman, The Hillier Group, Princeton, NJ
For design of Samsung America, an office tower in Ridgefield Park, NJ

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BOOK PUBLICATION

PUBLICA TIONS

The Hand and the Soul: Aesthetics and Ethics in Architecture and Art 2009 Charlottesville & London: The University of Virginia Press
Content editor and author of two essays:
“Introduction: The Hand and the Soul” pp. 1-27

“Looking at LeWitt: Notes on the Open Aesthetic Experience” pp. 255-278Against Indifference: Notes on the Drawings of Manuel Bailo 2018

Essay in Manuel Bailo, Public Catalyst (Barcelona & NYC: Actar)

Contemplation and the Everyday: A Mural in a Public Bathroom 2017 On-line proceedings, Architecture Culture and Spirituality Forum
ACSF no. 9, Practice, Craft, Materials and Making, Deer Isle, Maine

Beginning with Collage: Towards an Open, 2017Collaborative, and Interdisciplinary Way of Making
With graduate student Candice Vanderhorst (M. Arch., UVA 2016)
Proceedings, National Conference on the Beginning Design Student

NCBDS no. 33, Begin with Why: Ethics and Values in Beginning DesignSalt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah, pp. 204 – 212

Un-painting: An Aleatoric Composition” 2013 Essay in Catalyst: Conditions, Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, ed.
Barcelona & NYC: Actar D / UVA—Paper Matters, pp. 299 – 302

Passages to India 2013 Essay in Phoebe Crisman and Peter Waldman, editors
India Initiative: Water in the Emerging Megacity + the Enduring VillageCharlottesville: UVA School of Architecture, pp. 114 – 121

Looking at Leonardo 2012 Essay in Conversations—Lunch 07, UVA School of Architecture
Editors: N. Burgess, J. Cochran, J. Hays, and N. Keroack, pp. 71-78

100 Blue Bowls: Notes on Hana Kim’s Drawings 2012 Essay in conjunction with two art exhibits
“100 Bowls” (Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville)
and “Hana Kim: Tactile Structures” (The Dean’ s Gallery, UV A)

On-line publication, UVA School of Architecture

Laocoön 2011 Essay in edited volume City Secrets: Rome (2nd edition)
Robert Kahn, ed., NYC: Fang Duff Kahn Publishers, pp. 137-138

Field-Making: Re-imagining the Figure Ground Problem 2011 Proceedings, National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
NCBDS, no. 27, In the Beginning / In the End, Lincoln NE
College of Architecture, University of Nebraska, pp. 467-472

Openness, Incompleteness, and the Beauty of Margins 2009 Essay in Margins—Lunch 04, UVA School of Architecture
Editor: Lauren Hackney, pp. 1-20

Beyond Cut & Paste: The Promise of Collage in Contemporary Design 2008 Essay in Places: Forum for Design for the Public Realm
Re-placing, Vol. 20, No. 1, Journal of the University of CA
Berkley / Routledge, pp. 60-69

Beauty and Ordinariness: Notes on the Photography of Kirk Martini 2007 Essay in Colonnade, Vol. 22, No. 4, UVA School of Architecture

The Gettysburg Address: 271 Words Painted on a Bridge 2007 Essay in Betsy Roettger, ed., Building After Katrina:
Visions for the Gulf Coast, in Urgent Matters, Vol. 02
UVA School of Architecture, pp. 149-160

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The Garden as Collage: Rupture and Continuity in the 2007Park Designs of Peter and Anneliese Latz
Essay in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Vol. 27, No. 2, John Dixon Hunt, ed.

University of Pennsylvania / Routledge, pp 149-182

The Black Box Project and Other Ways to Reintegrate Our Senses 2006 Proceedings, Beginners’ Mind, Association of Collegiate
Schools of Architecture (ACSA), San Antonio, Texas
University of Texas at San Antonio, pp. 149-154

Trajan’s Markets / Santo Stefano Rotondo / Ribera’s Venus and Adonis 2000 Three essays in edited volume City Secrets: Rome (1st edition)
R. Kahn, ed., NYC: The Little Bookroom Press, pp. 22-23, 210-213, 175-176

Three Collage Series: Trash-Bag Trees, Swallows, and Winter Trees 1995 Catalog of the American Academy in Rome
Rome: Litografia Bruni-Pomezia, pp. 32-35

GALLERY REPRESENT A TION

ART EXHIBITS

Gallery Molly Krom, New York City and Berlin, Germanyhttp://gallerykrom.com/GMK_artists.html

Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VAhttps://www.lydmgallery.com/

Art on Paper

Group show, Pier 36 International Art Exhibit, New York City “Leaves of Grass” drawings

Six American Artists

Salon Zurcher, 56 rue Chapon, Paris, France
“Childhood Chimeras” and “Childhood Places” drawings

Picasso, Lydia and Friends

Group show, Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA “The Lotus Eaters” collages

Ménage

Three-artists show, Proto Gallery, Hoboken, NJ “Swallows” collages and “Leaves of Grass” drawings

Art on Paper

International Art Fair—NYC / The Brooklyn Museum Group show co-sponsored by Gallery Molly Krom, NYC “Lacedaemonian Lakes” drawings

Art on Paper

International Art Fair—NYC / The Brooklyn Museum Group show co-sponsored by Gallery Molly Krom, NYC “Addresses Unknown” drawings and collages

Twenty

Group show, Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA “Floriani—no 2” collage

Sanda Iliescu: in the Garden of (Plastic) Paradise

Solo show, Gallery Molly Krom, NYC
“Birds” and “Estelle” drawings; “Trash-Bag Tree II” collage

Picasso, Lydia and Friends

2013 – present 2010 – present

March 2017 October 2016 August-Sept. 2016 June-July 2016 March 2016

March 2015

Jan. 2015 Sept.-Oct. 2014 Sept.-Oct. 2014

Group show, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA
“Song for Sol—nos. 1 & 9” collages, and “Recover (D3)” drawings “Kitchen Table Collages”

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The Apartment

Group exhibit sponsored by The Line, 76 Greene Street, NYC “Kitchen Table Collages”

Women With Means: Collages by Elise Church and Sanda Iliescu

Two-women show at Cutlog International Art Fair“Kitchen Table Collages”

Flights of Love: Sanda Iliescu, Katerina Marcelja, Klaudia Stoll

Three-women show at Gallery Molly Krom, NYC “Ares & Aphrodite” paintings

The Hiding Places are (Utterly) Empty

Group show at Gallery Molly Krom, NYC “Kitchen Table Collages”

Art by Architects: Knowing How to See

Exhibit curated by Marvin J. Malecha & Michael BednarVirginia Center for Architecture, Richmond, VA

“Recover (4A)” drawing

A New Natural History

Group exhibit, Ruffin Gallery, UVA Fine Arts Department Three paintings in the “Recover” series

May 2014 April 2014 Dec. 2013 Sept. 2013 April-July 2013

Oct. 2012

Picasso, Lydia and Friends
A Show Celebrating the Launch of the Lydia Csato Gasman ArchiveSept. 2012

Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA Three paintings in the “Recover” series

AAF Milan

Group show: Milan, Italy; sponsored by Vagabond Gallery, NYC “Ares & Aphrodite” series of paintings

Delineate

Invitational group show: McMaster Gallery
The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC “Loopy Lines with Yellow” paintings

Medium & Mystery: Gasman, Grant, Iliescu, Tarbell

Group show: Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, VA “Loopy Lines with Yellow” drawings and “Swallows” collages

Past Meets Present

Group exhibit, Ruffin Gallery, UVA Fine Arts Department “Kitchen Table Collages”

Feb. 2011 Oct. 2010

Sept.-Oct. 2010

June 2010

Lines: Paintings, Drawings, and Collages Nov. 2009-Jan. 2010 Solo show: The Dean’s Gallery, University of Virginia
“Blades of Grass” drawings and paintings and “Poem Drawing”

Verge Art Fair

Miami Beach, Miami, FL; sponsor: Vagabond Gallery

Are You Sorry for Women?

Three-artists show: Housler, Iliescu, WelshmanVagabond Gallery, NYC

AAF Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Holland; sponsor: Vagabond Gallery

The Hand and the Soul: Iliescu, LeWitt, Slutzky

University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville

Dec. 2009 Oct.-Nov. 2009

Oct.-Nov. 2009 Feb.-April 2009

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Nov. 2008

Oct.-Nov. 2008 March 2008 April 2007 Spring 2007 Dec. 2006 Oct. 2006 May 2006 Dec. 2005 Nov. 2005 May 2003 Sept. 2002 April 2002

Sanda Iliescu: Recent Work

Solo show: The Rowan University Gallery, Glassboro, NJ Curator: Katherine McFadden, gallery director

Bridge Art Fair: Berlin, 2008

Group show; sponsor: Vagabond GallerySanda Iliescu: Kitchen Table Collages

Solo show, Deborah Berke Gallery, NYCPsychoanalysis and Art, part III: Collector’s Issues

Group show, Vagabond Gallery, NYC
Paintings and Collages for the National Cancer Survivors’ Day

Group show, Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn, NY

Art Basel—Miami

Group show, Miami, FL; sponsor: Vagabond GalleryCollage

Group show, Chashama Arts Organization, NYCMirror, Mirror

Group show, The Greene County Arts Council, Catskill, NYClothes in Art

Two-artists show, Vagabond Gallery, NYCJanus

Group show, Fendi, NYC; sponsor: American Academy in RomeFace to Face

Group show, Amarcord Gallery, Beacon, NYCollages from Rome

Solo show, Amarcord Gallery, Beacon, NY

The Difficult Dialogue

Solo show, UVA School of Architecture
In conjunction with the Ethics & Aesthetics Symposium

Charlottesville Lines

Solo show, Elmaleh Gallery, University of VirginiaDrawings

Solo show, Ballinger Gallery, Philadelphia, PAArtists / Architects

Group show, The Gallery at Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJLandscapes

Solo show, The W.P.A. Gallery, Princeton, NJTimeline

Solo show, Storrs Gallery, UNCC, Charlotte, NCWindow for a Red Swallow

Group show, Aida Gallery and Habitat for Humanity, Charlotte, NC.Annual Show at the American Academy in Rome

Group show, AAR, Rome, Italy

Twines

Solo show, Storrs Gallery, The University of NC at Charlotte

Shelter

March 2001 Sept. 2000 July 1997 Feb. 1997 Oct. 1996 Aug. 1996 May 1995 March 1994 Dec. 1993

Annual invitational group show, The WPA Gallery, Princeton, NJ

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PUBLIC ART

Tristele May 1993 Solo show, The WPA Gallery, Princeton, NJ

The New Jersey State Council on the Arts Exhibition 1991 Group show, The Gallery at Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Princeton, NJ

Oct. 1992Small Works 1992

Origins

Three artists show, Prallsville Mill Gallery, Stockton, NJ Juried group show, The WPA Gallery, Princeton, NJ

Stories of Ivy Road: Found Objects, Portraits, Conversations

The Jefferson School City Center, Charlottesville, VA

Jan. 2015

Iliescu, Phoebe Crisman and 15 UVA students celebrated the diversity of life along a commercial strip of Ivy Road. Two L-shaped vertical black planes, each with its own window, created a rectangular space. A third horizontal black plane held the evidence of the street: washed, ironed and cleaned fragments such as broken bottles, cigarette buts, toys, car parts and lottery tickets. Along with taped interviews and black and white portraits of passers-by, these recovered fragments painted a picture of the consumption and personal behaviors of people inhabiting the street.

Snowballs on Steps (for David Hammons) Jan. 2013 Outdoor staircase on the University of Virginia campus

After a snowfall, on the afternoon of January 24, Iliescu and her painting students created an evanescent installation. They made carefully crafted snowballs and arranged them on the steps of a prominent outdoor stair.

Un-Painting: from Yellow to White Sept. 2011West Wing Gallery, School of Architecture, UVA

Executed over a 12-day span, this project transformed a yellow wall by gradually draining it of its color and returning it to neutral white. The project afforded passersby a visually stimulating experience of 12 transitional murals in golden yellows and complementary blues and purples.

Lines of Darkness and Light Sept. 2010 The Rotunda at the center of the UVA campus

For seven days the south columns of Jefferson’s Rotunda at UVA were veiled in dark, transparent material. Designed by Iliescu and executed by university staff and volunteers, this installation marked the Day of Dialogue at the University of Virginia, an event that focused attention on the problems of violence and intolerance on campus.http://www.virginia.edu/dayofdialogue/dayofdialogue/artproject.html

The Fun Bus: A Bus Painted for Children Aug. 2008 Charlottesville Public Schools

Working with artist volunteers and children in a city-run summer camp, Iliescu transformed an old school bus into a vividly colored “fun bus” for kids. The Charlottesville Parks and Recreation Department, Piedmont Council for the Arts, and The Bridge Gallery sponsored the project.

Sixteen Silos, Sixteen Shades of Yellow

Lafarge Cement Terminal, Money Point, VA

Iliescu and Phoebe Crisman worked with student volunteers to design, construct and install 150-foot-long yellow pennants from the sides of LaFarge cement silos. The Elizabeth River Project (Norfolk), Lafarge Cement Terminal (Chesapeake), and The Institute for Environmental Negotiation at UVA sponsored this project.

Oct. 2006

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Y ellow Submarine—T 102 (for Daisy W alker)

Public bathroom in the University Art Museum Annex, UVA

Inspired by the dedicated work of Mrs. Daisy Walker, an office janitor, Iliescu designed a mural in the public bathroom of an art museum building. The mural’s geometric shapes correspond to simple objects in the room such as the mop, bucket, soap dispenser, towel holder and grab bars.

Why Do You Draw?

The School of Architecture, UVA

July 2006

April 2006

PRESS / REVIEWS

Lessons in Living with Sanda Iliescu:
A Conversation about Failure and Growth
Virginia Architecture Magazine, Vol. 6, Dear Young DesignersUVA School of Architecture

Interview with Sanda Iliescu

Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh, ed., Catalyst II: Lineages and TrajectoriesBarcelona & NYC: Actar D/UVa: Paper Matters, pp. 134-139

Iliescu designed this collaborative project for 3rd graders from a local elementary school and students at the UVA School of Architecture. Children painted trees, flowers, buildings, and finally a collaborative mural called “Monster Making Machines.” UVA graduate student Elisa Niemack documented the work in a video, along with footage of the children describing their thoughts on what drawing meant to them.

271 Words: The Gettysburg Address on Beta Bridge Sept. 2005 Beta Bridge on the UVA campus

On the parapets of a campus bridge at the University of Virginia, Iliescu orchestrated the painting of the Gettysburg Address by passersby. Each participant painted a single word in the 271-word address. The project was conceived in response to the painting of racist and hate graffiti on this bridge and other locations on campus.

Herakles Nov. 1994 The American Academy in Rome; Rome, Italy

Iliescu designed the stage set for John Eaton’s opera Herakles, performed at the American Academy. Along with paint, wood and other conventional materials, Iliescu used plastic trash bags, a lightweight and inexpensive material that she processed to create different textures and light effects.

Reflections on a Drawing by Sanda Iliescu

fall 2016

2016

2014 May 8-11, 2014

April 24, 2013 Oct. 5, 2011 Sept. 30, 2010

Phoebe Crisman in Souvenir-Nostalgia: Room 1000, no. 2, UC Berkley Journal of the College of Environmental Design, pp. 159-162

Cutlog 2014

The Wall Street Journal International / on-line publication “Kitchen Table Collage: Phoebe, no. 9”

http://wsimag.com/art/8988-cutlog-2014

UVA Architecture Students Create ‘American Flag’ Art

Robert Hull, UVA Today / on-line publicationUn-Painting Project is a Lesson in Public Art

Jane Ford, UVA Today / on-line publication

Lines of Darkness & Light:
Veiling of the Rotunda as Communal Act
A. J. Artemel, The Declaration, UVA student newspaper

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UVA Slaying Prompts Campus Safety Talks

Lines of Darkness and Light, The Washington PostDeath Spurs Day of Dialogue at UVA

Lines of Darkness and Light, The Baltimore Sun

UVA Set for Day of Dialogue

Brian McNeill, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VASanda Iliescu and the Day of Dialogue at UVA

Radio interview with Sandy Houseman, NPR

The University Prepares for Day of Dialogue

The Cavalier Daily, Charlottesville, VAHealing Talk: Event Encourages Examination

of University Culture, Virginia MagazineThe Hand and the Soul: Iliescu, LeWitt, Slutzky

Jane Ford, UVA Today / on-line publication
Faculty, Students and Artists Work to Align ‘The Hand and the Soul’

Derry Wade, UVA Today / on-line publicationGet on the Bus

David Maurer, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VAThe Fun Bus

Jane Ford, UVA Today / on-line publicationFlying High

The Daily Progress, Charlottesville VA

Public Art Project:
UVA Professors Celebrate Money Point Clean-Up PlanInside UVA, vol. 36, no. 16 / on-line publication

The Self-portraits of Sanda Iliescu: An Interface

fall 2010 Jan. 2009 Jan. 2009

William Fried, Lunch—Trespass, no. 1, UVA School of ArchitectureBeta Bridge Art Project Counters Intolerance

Jane Ford, Inside UVA / on-line publicationInterview on Beta Bridge

Carlos Santos, The Richmond Times DispatchUniversity Students Make Statement on Beta Bridge

Melanie Meyhew, The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VAFour Score…

Sam Stoller, The Cavalier Daily, Charlottesville, VABetween Ethics and Aesthetics

Explorations: Research Highlights from the University of Virginia

Iliescu’s Art is Metaphor for Democracy

Jane Ford, Inside UVA / on-line publicationSeminar Instructor of the Year

Brian Brooks, The Post & Lintel, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC

Making Her Own Space:
Refugee, Homeless Student, UNCC Teacher
Richard Maschal, The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC

Sept. 25, 2010 Sept. 24, 2010 Sept. 23, 2010 Sept. 21, 2010 Sept. 20, 2010

July 27, 2008 July 17, 2008 Oct. 19, 2006 October 2006

Spring 2006 Sept. 23, 2005 Sept. 18, 2005 Sept. 15, 2005 Sept. 14, 2005

spring 2004 July 2002 Oct. 1996

Dec. 5, 1993

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PUBLIC LECTURES & WORKSHOPS

Rome Prize Winners are Announced

The New York Times

Creations by Fellowship Winners

Vivien Raynor, The New York Times

A Ten Story Office Tower in Ridgefield Park, NJ

Progressive Architecture,
Cleveland OH: Penton Publishing Inc., pp. 108-109

Ethical Questions: Contextualizing Data Visualization

Datapalooza International Conference, University of Virginia

Leaves of Grass:
A Contemplative and Participatory Drawing Workshop
(with Phoebe Crisman) Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum (ACSF) Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine

Contemplation and the Everyday: A Mural in a Public Bathroom

Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum (ACSF) Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine

Beginning with Collage: Towards an Open,
Collaborative, and Interdisciplinary Way of Making
National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS)Begin with Why: Ethics and Values in Beginning Design, no. 33 Salt Lake City, Utah

The Value of Participatory and Public Art Projects in Sustainability Education
(with Phoebe Crisman) Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Baltimore, MD

Janitors, Bathrooms, Bridges, and Buses May 2015 & April 2016 UVA School of Architecture: Prof. Phoebe Crisman’s
Global Sustainability class, Arch. 2150

Images at the End of Life

UVA School of Medicine, The Heart of Medicine program
Art workshop and panel discussion with Prof. Marcia Childress

Ethics in Public Art

The University of Florida at Gainesville

Transforming Sustainability Education through Public Art

(with Phoebe Crisman), Association for the Advancement
of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Minneapolis, MN

Stories of Ivy Road: Roles for Public Art in Sustainability Planning & Community
(with Phoebe Crisman) Association for the Advancement
of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), Minneapolis, MN

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Collage

UVA School of Architecture, Prof. Kirk Martini’sPhotography and Digital Media class

The Ethics of Making: How, Where and For Whom We Design

The Harvard Graduate School of Design

Women in Design

Symposium panelist, The Harvard Graduate School of Design

March 2016

Oct. 2015 Oct. 2015

Oct. 2015

Oct. 2015

April 2015 April 2015

April 12, 1993 July 28, 1991 Jan. 1991

Nov. 2017 May 2017

May 2017

March 2017

Oct. 2016

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SANDAHeart of Medicine: A Symposium at the UVA School of Medicine

Art workshop and panel discussion with Prof. Marcia Childress

Conceptual Art: Systematic Processes and Artistic Expression

UVA Department of Art, Prof. George Sampson’s class

The Arts & Education

Form and Narrative in the paintings of Giotto & Duccio

UVA Department of Art, Prof. Paul Barolsky’s class

High Renaissance & Mannerist Art

Notes on Openness: Ethics & Aesthetics in Participatory Art

UVA School of Architecture, Prof. Daniel Bluestone’s class

Architecture Common Course

Field-Making: Re-imagining the Figure Ground Problem

In the Beginning / In the End, National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS), Lincoln, NE College of Architecture, University of Nebraska

Public & Ephemeral: Art Beyond Pleasing Objects

The Artist’s Forum at Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA

Art as Concept & Art as Experience

UVA Computer Science Department, Prof. Kevin Sullivan’sComputational Photography class

Healing Arts: In the Hospital, in the Hands

Medical Center Hour, UVA School of Medicine

Shared Doings & Sayings: Symposium on Art, Memory and Healing

A multi-disciplinary discussion on the role of the arts in the lives of people with dementia; the UVA Architecture School; event sponsors: UVA’s Institute on Aging and The Alzheimer’s Association.

ILIESCU

Feb. 2015 Feb. 2012

Sept. 2011 Sept. 2011 April 2011

Nov. 2010 Nov. 2010

Oct. 2010 Oct. 2010

Oct. 2010

Green Art & Architecture:
Collaborations through Service Research Learning
(with Prof. Phoebe Crisman) Denver, CO; Association
for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education,
(AASHE): Campus Initiative to Catalyze a Just and Sustainable World

Ten Lessons in Composition

UVA Computer Science Department, Prof. Kevin Sullivan’sComputational Photography class

Collage: An Open Aesthetic for Art and Architecture

Topic chair (panelists: Federica Goffi, Ron Jelaco, Dennis Maher) ACSA National Conference, Portland, OR

Color and the Sense of Touch

Presentation to The Sloane Society for the Humanities in MedicineThe University of Virginia School of Medicine

The Search for Vision’s Body:
The Role of Touch in Painting and Architecture
Panel co-chair with Thomas Berding, Professor of Painting Michigan State University, at College Arts Association (CAA) 96th Annual Conference in Dallas, TX

Ethics and Aesthetics in Art and Architecture

The Faculty Club, University of Virginia

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The Art of Collage

The Artists’ Network of Great Neck, Great Neck, NY
Eros as Collage: Plato’s Symposium and the Aesthetics of Junk

Chashama, non-profit arts organization, NYC

The Art of Robert Slutzky

The Cooper Union, Erwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, NYC Symposium in memory of Robert Slutzky

National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) No. 21, The Beginner’s Mind, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX

June 2007 Nov. 2006 Oct. 2005

SELECTED ART & DESIGN REVIEWS

SELECTED SERVICE

Meanings in Drawings

School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Venetian Streets and Campi from the 6th to the 17th Century

Little Architects, Charlotte, NC, and the College of Architecture University of North Carolina at Charlotte

T ulane University

The School of Architecture

University of Pennsylvania

The School of Architecture, the Graduate School of Fine Arts

Tyler School of Art, Temple University

Visiting Critic in Painting
The Rome Graduate Program, Rome, Italy

Promotion and Tenure Review Committee

The School of Architecture, University of Virginia

Graduate Admissions Committee

The School of Architecture, University of Virginia

Study Report on the Iowa State Design Foundations Program

(with John Roach, Parsons School of Design)
Iowa State College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

The President’s Culture Working Committee

1997 1996

2017 2007, 1997 1994

2016 to present 2006 to present Sept. 2016

2015

The Black Box Project

Feb. 2005The Garden as Collage 2003

The Richmond Architects’ Forum, Richmond, VA

April 2002 this Ethics & Aesthetics Symposium at the UVA School of Architecture.

The Black Box Project and Other Ways to Reintegrate Our Senses 2002 90th National Conference of the College Art Association (CAA)
Philadelphia, PA

Brancusi in Romania 1997The Visual Arts Lecture Series, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

The Difficult Dialogue: Ethics & Aesthetics

With UVA Prof. Robin Dripps, Iliescu organized and moderated

Iliescu worked with UVA President Teresa Sullivan and other faculty, staff members, students, and alumni to examine the UVA student culture; she contributed to report recommending the implementation of university-wide positive changes.

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The Weekly Art Workshop

(with Lauren Catlett, UVA alumna) art lessons for residents atMorningside extended care facility, Charlottesville, VA

The Dean’ s Gallery

Exhibition designer and curator; School of Architecture, UVA Website designer for the Dean’s Gallery Website

The Day of Dialogue

Member of the organizing committee for The Day of Dialogueat the University of Virginia—an event that focused attention on the problems of intolerance, and violence to women on campus.http://www.virginia.edu/dayofdialogue/dayofdialogue/artproject.html

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #394

(with Sofia LeWitt, Roland Lusk, and nine volunteer artists) Installation at The University of Virginia Art Museum

Charlottesville Summer Camp Art Workshops

Drawing classes for children (K through 12) in the Charlottesville Summer Camp Program; sponsors: The Bridge arts organization and The Charlottesville Parks & Recreation Department

The Early Visions Program

(with UVA students) painting classes for at-risk teenagers from the Charlottesville High School; sponsor: Fralin Museum of Art, UVA

2015 2010-2014 Sept. 2010

2009 2008

2002-04

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