Electric Works presents “School of the Adjusted Plan”, paintings and mixed media works by Iva Gueorguieva, April 4 - May 2 with a reception
Friday, April 4, 6-8 PM.

Gueorguieva’s features work exploring
the relationship between abstraction and figuration; marks accumulate to produce sensual surfaces and spaces, revealing the contours of various characters, some grotesque and vile, others superbly tranquil in their dismembered and tattered states. There are maps of bodies: convulsing, desiring, sometimes in need of repair by
means of stitching and bandaging.

“Forest” a hand-worked print created in the on-site Electric Works print studio will display the interaction of the artist and the digital
medium. In addition, Gueorguieva is creating with artist Matt McGavey—her long time collaborator and husband—a large mural which will incorporate a sound and video component.

With writer David Cull, Gueorguieva is collaborating and illustrating “Speed-Hump Adjusters” which will be published and exhibited by Electric Works. It is a story set in a small, generic community with an
overcontrolling neighborhood council, that follows the residents' interactions with their latest device for control: adjustable speed-humps. Original drawings as well as the completed manuscript will
be on display.

Gueorguieva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She received her B.A. in Philosophy from Goucher College in Baltimore, and her M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. She has had numerous successful exhibitions including in 2007 at the Pomona College Museum of Art in Claremont and at Carl Berg Gallery in Los Angeles This is her first solo exhibition in the Bay Area.