Grappling with mortality and time is an undercurrent to my work, stemming from the experience of having multiple close family members get sick and pass away in a short period of time. Through painting, sculpture, and video performance, my work focuses on the grief and alienation that often follows traumatic events. I focus on how grief has manifested in my body, objects as a record of people/family, and abstraction as a vessel for emotion.
Studying these objects allows me to examine my family’s history and lived experiences. Being first-generation American, I was raised in the Serbian-Orthodox church with my grandparents’ war and father’s immigration stories. The pieces themselves become a ritual for healing and a space to distort the identity of familiar objects, which mimics the distortion that grief leaves one feeling about life.
Veronica Dimitrov is a multidisciplinary artist based in Southern California. Her work engages themes of memory, identity, and transformation, often drawing from personal and collective histories. She earned a BA in Art with a minor in Art History from the University of California, Irvine.
Her work has been exhibited in institutions such as UC Irvine, the CICA Museum in South Korea, and Tag Gallery in Los Angeles. In addition to her practice, Dimitrov has curated several exhibitions and independent art projects including Port Traits at Angels Gate Cultural Center and multiple shows with Honey House Art Collective. She received the ArtWorksLBC Award in 2020 in recognition of her contributions to the local arts community.