Carol Elkovich
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW after having degreed with a Bachelors of Fine Art of Sculpture , you nurtured your education with a Master of Arts in Design , that you received from the prestigious University of California at Berkeley : how do your studies influence your evolution as an artist ? And in particular , how does your substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general ?
From early on I sought an education in cultural production that framed examination of the “ aesthetic problem ” as an integral part of life . Beginning with my secondary education , I was fortunate to have lived within the immersive design experience of Eliel Saarinen ’ s Cranbrook Campus in Michigan . Saarinen oversaw every minute design detail from patterns in brickwork , to the interiors and furniture , to even the cutlery in the dining halls . This left an impression about how art and design have a function in daily life . During my college years I studied in the San Francisco Bay Area where the roots of innovation and the voice of countercultures take precedent . The wildness in the culture and the striking natural environment inspire risk and beauty in my work . The erratic surf of the Pacific Ocean or the constant silent threat of earthquakes keep me from taking my environment for granted . I have long held an interest in how geological , historical , and cultural waves can be seen through the aesthetic vernacular of place and during my years at
University of California , Berkeley , I closely studied this visual history . My experience was perhaps more conceptually focused than your average MFA program because as a Visual Studies Major I was essentially an artistat-large within the College of Environmental Design ( CED ). Therefore , my peers were architects , urban planners , and landscape architects and ours was a conceptual kinship with varying practices that examined stewardship and human relationship to the land . My work has long expressed this subject through a variety of approaches and that is what led me to studying at the CED . Since then , for the past twenty-some years , I have been a professor of art . As both artist and teacher , I am deeply committed to grappling with the aesthetic problem , which I think of as a generator of innovation and critical examination .
You are a versatile artist and your practice includes a wide variety of media and disciplines : ranging from Painting to FIlm and Acting , the kaleidoscopic nature of your practice shows an organic synergy between a variety of expressive capabilities . Before starting to elaborate about your production , we would suggest to our readers to visit http :// www . carolelkovich . com in order to get a synoptic view of your multifaceted artistic production : while walking our readers through your process , we would like to ask you if you have you ever happened to realize that such multidisciplinary approach is