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Personal Exhibition- Pursuing Dreams In Tough Times, Keller, TX 2009

Web Portfolio- Absolute Arts, World Wide Online Gallery www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/i/ivanvesely

Personal Showing- Iron Chinchilla, Keller, TX 2005-2006

Cottonwood Fine Arts Festival- Richardson, TX 2005

May Fest Fine Arts Festival- Addison, TX 2005

Grapefest- Grapevine, TX 2005

Main Street Days Festival- Fort Worth, TX 2005

Arbor Days Festival- Hurst, TX 2005

39 Hour Show- Fort Worth Community Arts Center February 2004

Personal Showing- Eli’s Gallery West End Dallas, TX 2003-2004

Shining Stars Foundation Charity Event- Las Colinas, TX 2003

North East Arts Fest- Northeast Mall Bedford,TX 2003

Twenty-fifth Annual Open Exhibition (Juried Show)- Trinity Arts Guild Bedford, TX June 2003

39 Hour Show- Fort Worth Community Arts Center May 2003

Multi-Cultural Art Exhibit- Harris Methodist HEB Hospital May 2003

Spring Arts Festival- Euless Public Library March 2003

Trinity Arts Guild Members Juried Show- February 2003

Personal Showing- Hair’s The End Salon Deep Ellum Dallas, TX 1999-2000

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It is difficult to answer the question of how Ivan became an artist. It is a chicken or the egg conundrum. Was he just born one? Or did he develop into one as the joys and hardships of life brushed and pounded against him? As the closest person to him, I believe that he was born an artist. And that his experiences in life influence the images he creates. I also believe that God gifted him with authentic ability to see the world from a different perspective and then transform those views into images that call out to all of us in a personal way.

Artist’s Statement

Creativity has been and continues to be a saving grace in my life. Through my creativity I understand things that cannot be explained by a word, a look, a touch, or a taste. There are so many things that happen in this life that pass us by and we never even know they were there. Painting lets me slow down enough to have a glimpse of these things. I explore depths of my soul that I was not aware existed. Some are beautiful. Some are heartbreaking. But coming to understand them is a blessing. It has brought peace and perception at times when I thought there was none.

We all have a part in us that yearns. My yearning is to be whole, to be fulfilled. I want to be like a glass that is not half full, nor half empty, but that has plenty to share. I want to have enough to quench my own thirst and the thirst of others.

Whether I will ever feel completely whole remains to be seen. You are the people who are seeing. An artist, to me, is someone who allows others to see the process and progress of his, or her own life. He, or she, lays spiritually and emotionally naked on a canvas and rises past the fear that while some find it attractive, others may find it repulsive. Honesty is allowing yourself to be seen, hiding nothing . So I lay myself out in my work, naked, in front of you, hoping to connect, or intersect with your life, desiring that you will find peace, and a new perspective for yourself.

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