The Contemporary Arts Center is pleased to present MONEY - $1000 bills, the 2008 Silver Circle sculpture by Srdjan Loncar. The edition of 70 was created using photography and wooden blocks.

Srdjan Loncar was born in Rijeka, Croatia in 1971 and moved to New Orleans at the age of three. Although he later spent his teenage years back in Croatia and served in Yugoslavia's border patrol in the 1990's during the height of the region's civil wars, he returned to New Orleans in 1991 and eventually graduated from the University of New Orleans. Loncar went on to receive his MFA in 2003 from the University of New Orleans, concentrating on sculpture and photography. Much of his work focuses on the fusion between the two mediums. In 2006, Loncar received a grant from the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation and also conducted an artist residency at the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, California.

Loncar has participated in many local and national exhibitions. In 2006, he exhibited at Arthur Roger Gallery and the Louisiana Biennial 2005-2006 at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. In 2007, he exhibited at Tulane University's Carroll Gallery, the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica as part of its Ultrasonic International II, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. His work can also be found at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Loncar was invited with eighty other artists from all over the country by CAC Visual Arts Director and Director of Prospect.1 New Orleans, Dan Cameron, to participate in the ground-breaking international art biennial running November 2008 through January 2009. Loncar's installation will be exhibited at the U.S. Mint in New Orleans for the duration of the biennial.

Artist's Statement

"My work consists of building selected objects that range from natural and organic to historical and political to domestic and seemingly mundane. My method incorporates carving forms out of Styrofoam or wood and covering them with detailed photo images of various "surfaces." The result is a distorted mosaic of small and individual photographic truths which reveal the overall complexity of observation, recording, and representation.

My Silver Circle edition is actually an introduction to my larger Propect.1 installation in November. For Prospect.1, my intention is to create a large pile of money ($100 bills) made out of photos adhered to wooden blocks resembling bundles of bills. The audience will be invited to participate by purchasing the "money" and carrying it away in silver briefcases from the U.S. Mint. I am happy to provide the Silver Circle members with a special connection to this installation as they will be the first to have their own stack of money especially tailored for them - a stack of $1000 bills."

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Srdjan Loncar joins previous Silver Circle sculpture artists Elizabeth Shannon, Stephen Paul Day, MaPó Kinnord-Payton, Mary Jane Parker, Martin Payton, Jeffrey Cook, Allison Stewart, Bernard Mattox, Clifton Webb, Mitchell Gaudet, Mignon Faget, George Dunbar, Gene Koss, Winifred Ross, Christopher Maier, Mario Villa, Arthur Silverman, John T. Scott, and Lin Emery.