
Vassilina Dikidjieva
METROPOLIS
June 24 – July 12, 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26, 6-8 pm
Vassilina Dikidjieva (b. in Bulgaria) studied architecture in the Higher Institute of Civil Engineering in Sofia, Bulgaria, and graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, Russia. With her career as a professional architect, she worked in Bulgaria, Ethiopia and New York. She currently lives and works in New Jersey, USA.
“The masterfully rendered figures, some of them paraphrases of well-known classical works, intentionally span the height and width of the entire paintings – the city with its roofs, towers and windows dominates in the composition, but the incorporeal human forms dominate in their scale. It seems to me that this intentional inversion of the scale of the human against the city is one of the greatest distinctions of Vassilina’s creative work.” [Ventzislav Iliev] The full text here