Teuta Pula, a freelance painter, holds Bachelor of Arts
degrees in painting and graphic design from the University
of Prishtina, Kosova. She started her Master’s degree
program in painting at the University of Prishtina, but was
interrupted due to war circumstances. Since 1999 she has
worked and lived in New York with her family.
Pula has been an active participant in collective and
individual exhibitions. In her most recent private exhibition
in Long Island City, Queens, New York in 2004, she made
this statement about the influences on her art:
“As a child I used to escape to a wonderland of painting
and drawing, creating my heroes and dreams. For me
painting has always been a pure expression of my feelings
and at the same time a play with figures and colors in a
free space.
In my last years of living in Kosova, I was deeply troubled
by [the] madness and inhumanity of war. My art turned
into a silent (but loud colors) opposition based on freedom
of speech and humanity.
In my paintings I tried to reveal a moment of people’s
feelings, desperation and pain while they were alone and
unheard. Displaced objects as metaphors, such as the
displaced moon, stars, and smashed geometrical elements
evoke the turmoil of the mind.
The very intensive lines above the story made out of
colors represent the power to control my own life stating
that I am going to live my dream.”
