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ANCA PEDVISOCAR

Romanian-American artist, born on March 5th, 1946. She is also known as a poet under the name Anca Pedvis. In 1970 she graduated from the Bucharest Fine Arts Institute, where she studied with Stefan Szonyi and Ion Stendl. In Romania she participated in numerous national and international art shows and she had two solo shows. In 1979, she received The National Commission for the UNESCO Prize at the "Grand Prix d'Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo." In 1984 she emigrated to the United States where she worked as a muralist, a high-end home furnishings textile designer and, eventually, as a full time artist.

In 1997, she published her first book of poetry "An Imperceptible Whiff of Socrates" through the "Cartea Romaneasca" Publishing House. In 2003, she published her second book of poetry "The Mount Placid Tirade"- a bilingual (Romanian-English) collection of poems published by the Romanian Cultural Institute Publishing House. In 2006, her most recent book of poetry, "Propilogue," was published by the Contemporanul Publishing House.

Currently she lives and works in New York.