Glassimo
A group of three women linked together in their individual and joint work by open dialogue. The authors met for the first time in the Glass Studio at the Faculty of Arts and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. Their joint starting point was not only their studies but also their approach to the material and its structure.
In their work they often use an artificial lighting source, which is always preceded by an exploratory search for the relations between the object, area, installation and the viewer.
At present they devote themselves to the creation of installations intended for public and private premises as well as exhibition projects. They have been working together under the joint name penocze since 2011 and their work has been developing and growing by new challenges.
Dagmar Petrovická *1987
High School of Glass Arts (SUPŠS) in Železný Brod
She then studied at the Faculty of Arts and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. She successfully completed her studies in 2013 in the Glass Studio led by doc. ak. mal. Ilja Bílek. During her studies she undertook foreign study visits at Moholy-Nagy Muvészeti Egyetem in Hungary and at Libera Academia di Belle Arti di Roma in Italy. In 2012 she won a scholarship for a work stay at the Institute of Lighting Design in Amsterdam.
Eva Nováková *1987
High School of Glass Arts (SUPŠS) in Kamenický Šenov
She continued her studies at the Faculty of Arts and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem where she completed a bachelor programme in 2012 in the Glass Studio led by doc. ak. mal. Ilja Bílek. During her studies she undertook foreign study visits at Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Belas Artes, in Portugal and at Saint-Lukas School of Art Brussels in Belgium.
In 2011 she underwent a traineeship at i2ADS Research Institute in Art, Design and Society in Portugal. Since 2010 she has been cooperating with the Institute of Lighting Design in Prague on a continuous basis. In 2014 she completed her studies in the studio Performance led by doc. Jiří Kovanda.
Irena Czepcová *1986
High School of Glass Arts (SUPŠS) in Valašské Meziříčí
From 2006 to 2013 she attended the Glass Studio led by doc. ak. mal. Ilja Bílek at the Faculty of Arts and Design of Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem. During her studies she undertook foreign study visits at Akademia Sztuk Pięknychim Jana Matejki w Krakowie in Poland and at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Music and Visual Arts, in Hungary. In 2012 she won a scholarship for a work stay at Jeffrey Sarmient at the University of Sunderland in the UK. In 2014 she was granted an Emerging Artist residency at Pilchuck Glass School.
