Protecting Our Planet from Ourselves
Showing from June 1, 2024 - August 3, 2024
Through thirty original oil paintings, Divna Pesic wants to remind people about the fragility of our planet.
Meet the Artist
Divna Pesic
Divna Pesic Grozdanov is a Macedonian artist who has found a home in the United States, where she has been creating a unique style of abstract expressionism called DIVNISM. Her vibrant and brilliant artwork has gained recognition and has been collected by art lovers, including her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
What makes her work stand out is her unconventional technique of using her fingers and a spatula to create her oil paintings. This approach allows her to tap into her wide imagination and intuition, resulting in a fusion of rational and irrational forms of her impressions.
Pesic Grozdanov began her journey with oil painting 31 years ago and has since had 20 major exhibitions around the world. Her work has been showcased in cities like New York, Miami, Washington, Chicago, Skopje, Paris, Istanbul, and Düsseldorf, among others. Her early passion for shooting with rifles also played a significant role in shaping her character and approach to life.
As a two-time Olympian and Balkan champion, she held 37 national records in air rifle and 22-caliber sport rifle disciplines. This experience instilled in her qualities such as physical and mental health, calmness, discipline, patience, self-confidence, diligence, constancy, focus on priorities, and a winning spirit, all of which are reflected in her artwork.
Pesic Grozdanov has been recognized as the best abstract expressionist in the world by AAA and has won different international art awards. Her work can be viewed on her website, or at ArtExpo New York 2024, where she will be showcasing her art in person.
Her next solo exhibition, titled “Protect the Planet from Ourselves,” will take place at the historical Passaic County Art Centre at the John Rea House from June 1, 2024, through August 3, 2024. This exhibition will feature 39 original oil paintings that reflect her deep concern for environmental issues.
Artist Statement
I was born in Macedonia, living in USA but all my life considering myself as citizen of this world. So, my inspirational location is this world and the universe. I paint most about cosmic topics, sense of the fragile life, love, faith, the power of truth, eternity, the fight between good and evil, the spiritual connections, the unity in diversity…
I start to paint oil on canvas when i was 13 years old and i like the opportunity to create, advocate and imagine better world, to escape for a while from the madness of society, the destruction and brutality and to paint ideas that will inspire humans to be counted on the good side of this world.
I love my unique style and colorful expression of my wide imagination.
Since i was professional rifle shooter for more then 25 years and twice Olympian, holding 37 national records in man and women air rifle and 22 caliber rifle discipline, ranked high among top international competitors in the world, i was trained from my father, my coach, to be excellent shooter. I learned from him the most important skills to become extraordinary shooter: focus, discipline, patience, calmness, good physical and mental health, hardworking, practice and again practice, no regrets, self-confidence, endurance, constancy, stability. So this is my most marked characteristics in life too. I have also a touch of creative maelstrom mind and lucky that i use it only on my canvas.
The theme of this exhibition “Protect our Planet from Ourselves” includes 30 original oil paintings that wants to remind people about the fragility of our planet. The collection includes paintings like “Splendid World,” which is about diving into a mystical dimension of the transcendent experience of the Hidden World, Lost Eden and the Washed Sin, and again opening the doors of Elysium, falling and rising, colorfully and divinely in one world, Splendid; “The Horns of Hypocrisy”, painting about powerful hypocrisy of the world today; “Evolution”, inspired by the process of evolution of the human mind, the changes from simplicity to stupidity that reflects the modern transformation of the world; “The Magical Truth of an Open Book”, painting that wants to inspire people to understand the value of knowledge so they can’t “fit” perfectly in the modern life machine; “How a Butterfly can Change the World”, painting about a theory of causality in physics that states that everything in the universe is connected but those connections are so complex that is hard to understand, so if we could understand them, we could see how the merest flutter of a butterfly’s wings on our planet could affect the motion of different stars, and just like the butterfly, humans are all connected and they have the power to make choices so they can make this world a better place to live.