Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Sanda Iliescu Art ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.sandailiescu.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Pages - [Home](https://www.sandailiescu.com/) - Summer Song, no. 26Watercolor on paper 22 x 30 in., 2024 Summer Song, no. 21Watercolor on paper 22 x 30 in., 2024Summer Song, no. 37Watercolor on paper 22 x 30 in., 2024Summer Song, no. 28Watercolor on paper, 22 x 30 in., 2024Summer Song, no. 23Watercolor on paper 22 x 30 in., 2024Summer Song, no. 22Watercolor - [About](https://www.sandailiescu.com/about/) - about my workbiocurriculum vitaeabout my work Give a child a stick and some mud on the ground and she will likely begin to draw. She might trace the outline of a shadow or make a sign she knows—for example, a circle or a letter. She might also invent rules for what she is doing. Rabbit - [Contact](https://www.sandailiescu.com/contact/) - E-mail: sdi5h@virginia.edu Phone: (434) 293-8884 Address: 1515 Oxford Road, Charlottesville, VA, 22903 Gallery: Les Yeux du Monde Gallery Follow me on Instagram or Youtube: - [Art](https://www.sandailiescu.com/art/) - sandailiescu_4c4pfg2025-08-27T20:09:09-04:00 Summer Songs I, 2024 Gallery Summer Songs I, 2024 Art Summer Songs I, 2024sandailiescu_4c4pfg2025-08-15T17:00:47-04:00 Summer Songs II, 2024 Gallery Summer Songs II, 2024 Art Summer Songs II, 2024sandailiescu_4c4pfg2025-09-29T18:04:21-04:00 What the Black Sea Said, 2022 Gallery What the Black Sea Said, 2022 Art What the Black Sea Said, 2022sandailiescu_4c4pfg2025-09-11T11:38:44-04:00 Cities of the Heart, 2025 Gallery - [Public Art](https://www.sandailiescu.com/public-art/) ## Portfolio - [What the Black Sea Said, 2022](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/what-the-black-sea-said-2022/) - What the Black Sea Said, 2022Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Lines of Darkness and Light, 2010](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/lines-of-darkness-and-light-2010/) - Lines of Darkness and LightIn April 2010, Yeardley Love, an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, was beaten to death by her estranged boyfriend, also a student at the university. A special “day of dialogue” was set aside to mourn Yardley’s death and spark a dialogue about violence against women on campus. To mark this - [Angels I, 2019](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/angels-i-2019/) - Angels I, 2019Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Cities in the Sky, 2023](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/cities-in-the-sky-2023/) - Cities in the Sky, 2023Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Katherine’s Collages, 2009](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/katherines-collages-2009/) - Katherine’s Collages, 2009Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [In the Land of the Lotus Eaters, 2016](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/in-the-land-of-the-lotus-eaters-2016/) - In the Land of the Lotus Eaters, 2016Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Angels III, 2024](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/angels-iii-2024/) - Angels III, 2024Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Angels II, 2022](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/angels-ii-2022/) - Angels II, 2022Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Un-Painting: From Yellow to White, 2011](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/un-painting-from-yellow-to-white-2011/) - Un-Painting: From Yellow to WhiteThis project began with a wall that had been painted bright yellow for a temporary exhibit at the UVA School of Architecture in the fall of 2011. The building’s manager planned to repaint the wall white. Students in my painting studio and I volunteered to do this repainting, but also to - [The Rosy Fingered Dawn, 2023](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/the-rosy-fingered-dawn-2023/) - The Rosy Fingered Dawn A Mural for the School of Architecture at the University of VirginiaThe title of this permanent mural—The Rosy Fingered Dawn—references a phrase that Homer uses repeatedly in his Iliad and Odyssey to describe the beginning of a new day. The mural, which I completed on August 11, 2023, with the help - [Fragile Beauty, 2023](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/fragile-beauty-2023/) - Fragile BeautyTo create this 16-foot long, multi-panel painting, I collaborated with undergraduate student Dillon Laurie McDowell. From the beginning, Emily Dickenson’s poem “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” inspired our work. The painting’s design, process, and subject matter address the dire environmental crisis our planet faces today, but they do so in a hopeful, not - [Pierrot Lunaire, 2018](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/pierrot-lunaire-2018/) - Pierrot Lunaire, 2018Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Winter Drawings, 2023](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/winter-drawings-2023/) - Winter Drawings, 2023Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Poem Drawing, 2002-25](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/poem-drawing-2002-25/) - Poem Drawing, 2002-25Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Cities of the Heart, 2025](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/cities-of-the-heart-2025/) - Cities of the Heart, 2025Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Stories of Ivy Road: Found Objects, Portraits, Conversations, 2015](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/stories-of-ivy-road-found-objects-portraits-conversations-2015/) - Stories of Ivy Road: Found Objects, Portraits, ConversationsTo create this artwork, I collaborated with my colleague, Professor Phoebe Crisman, and 15 undergraduate students at UVA. The work celebrates the diversity of life along a commercial strip of Ivy Road in Charlottesville, Virginia. Two vertical, L-shaped, black planes, each with its own window, define a rectangular - [The American Flag: A Study in Gray](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/the-american-flag-a-study-in-gray/) - The American Flag: A Study in GrayIn the spring of 2018, I collaborated with students in my studio class “Painting and Public Art,” to create a participatory painting of a large American flag in varying shades of gray. In the project, we sought to capture in visual form both the diversity of viewpoints and the - [Dark Flag](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/dark-flag/) - Dark FlagRendered in somber tones of black and dark gray, Dark Flag is a painting of a melancholy, richly textured American flag that invites viewers to meditate on the tragedy of gun violence in our country. In the fall of 2022, one hundred community volunteers helped paint Dark Flag. Many contributors added writing and drawings - [Snowballs on Steps, 2013](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/snowballs-on-steps-2013/) - Snowballs on StepsThe site for this temporary installation was a prominent outdoor staircase on the University of Virginia campus. After a snowfall on the afternoon of January 24, 2013, my painting students and I created an evanescent work of public art. We made carefully crafted snowballs and arranged them in a grid pattern on the - [Summer Songs I, 2024](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/summer-songs-2024/) - Summer Songs I, 2024Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [271 Words: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address on Beta Bridge, 2005](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/271-words-lincolns-gettysburg-address-on-beta-bridge-2005/) - 271 Words: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address on Beta BridgeIn the early morning of September 8, 2005, as I walked towards Beta Bridge, a UVA campus bridge used as a community bulletin board, I was stunned to see racist and homophobic graffiti that had been spray painted on its parapets. They included the word “KLAN” painted in - [Cities of the Mind, 2025](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/cities-of-the-mind-2025/) - Cities of the Mind, 2025Click on any image below to see enlarged images. - [Summer Songs II, 2024](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio-collections/summer-songs-ii-2024/) - Summer Songs II, 2024Click on any image below to see enlarged images. ## Portfolio Categories - [Art](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio_category/art/) - [Public Art](https://www.sandailiescu.com/portfolio_category/public-art/)