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 developer. I am currently retired from working with software, except for this web site, and am slowly getting back to creating art.
I have not 'made my living' with art but I do 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 for the special moments with my 6x7 medium format Pentax. I have done some stained glass pieces, all highly geometric, and, 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.
In the future I hope to complete some works I have started as fused glass pieces, do more portraits and learn about the process used to create works such as those done by Lalique.
The art works displayed in this web site, unless labeled otherwise - such as 'Some Art I like,' are all mine done between about 1976 and 2015.

Thank you for checking out my site!

Liviu,

2/2015