Stanka Kordic is a first generation American born of Croation parents who graduated Cleveland Institute of Art 1985 and then left the commercial world in 1988 to set up a studio, she moved from illustration to painting landscapes figures and portraits and later focused on children and adolesence in a dreamlike, poetic way. Her work is layered, intuitive and often fragile, with figures that vanish and reappear; she won awards and shows nationally but keeps a process that’s about listening to the paint not rules.




























