About: Liviu Ivanov

I am an artist born in 1952, in Romania and now living in California.
I came to the US in 1965 and lived in NY until 1984 when I moved with my wife and daughter to California.
I have attended Vassar college and received a degree in Political Science in 1975.
Between 1987 and 2014 I have worked for the State of California as a software engineer. I am currently retired from working with software, except for this web site, and am slowly getting back to creating art.
I like working with oils, drawing with pastels and finishing works in glass. I am a nut about taking lots and lots of photos, mostly digital but the for special moments with my 6x7 medium format Pentax. I have done some stained glass pieces, all highly geometric, and, currently if I work with glass, I only do fused glass.
My other interests are: staying fit swimming, some running, for the past 10 years I have run in a 10k race in Ashland, Oregon and struggling with tennis and German. The German interest might seem odd, it would have seemed strange to me when I was 20, but it has made more accessible to me the classical music that I like - Mozart, Schubert and the operas of Richard Strauss. Through the study of German I have enjoyed reading Gunther Grass in German, especially the Tin Drum and am currently reading other things in German. I highly recommend Hans Fallada's 'Every Man Dies Alone.'

Thank you for checking out my site!

Liviu Ivanov