Victor Ţapu

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Victor Ţapu

Victor Ţapu - Self Portrait
Born March 17, 1944(1944-03-17)
Bacani, Vaslui, Romania
Nationality Romanian

Victor Ţapu (born 17 March 1944) is a Romanian visual artist, currently living in Houston, Texas.

[edit] Biography

For over twenty-seven years, Victor Ţapu has been making his living through his creativity. From stage designing to painting, sculpting and portrait commissions, his work has found its way into prestigious private and state collections in United States, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Israel, Brazil and as well as Canada, Holland and Sweden.

Deciding during early childhood that painting and theater would be his life's work, Victor Ţapu began formal training at age thirteen in his native town of Bacau, Romania. He later received his Master of Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bucharest, Romania and supplemented his education with studies at Szajna Theater Studio in Warsaw, Poland.

Victor Ţapu served as a Stage Designer for many theaters in Romania, including the C. Tanase Music Hall and the Dramatic Theater in Brasov, Romania. He worked as a Director Designer for more than twenty movies with the Studio Picture Co. in Bucharest, Romania. Since coming to the US in 1990 as an outstanding artist, Victor developed his own Fine Arts Company in Houston, Texas.

An European artist with a Romanian accent and a Texas stride, Victor Ţapu enjoys the view of Europe from Texas. He now calls Texas home.

[edit] Victor's Fine Arts

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Houston, Texas

Fine Arts Company specializing in computer aided design, digital reproductions and fine printing of original artwork. Creating multimedia content involving high-end 3D animation and modeling software. Art painting, art sculpting, and computer generated commercial signs.

http://www.victorsfinearts.com

[edit] Exhibitions and Commissions

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2001

  • Addison Art Festival, Dallas, Texas - Oil Paintings

2000

  • Monticello Gallery, Dallas, Texas - Oil Paintings
  • Earth Works Gallery, Lake Charles, Louisiana - Oil Paintings
  • Clear Lake Designer Resources, Houston, Texas - Oil Paintings

1999

  • Monticello Gallery, Dallas, Texas - Oil Paintings
  • Earth Works Gallery, Lake Charles, Louisiana - Oil Paintings
  • Dean Day Gallery, Houston, Texas - Oil Paintings
  • Clear Lake Designer Resources, Houston, Texas - Oil Paintings
  • Decorative Arts Inc., Houston, Texas - Ceiling Mural Lattice

1998

  • Fiesta Art Caravan, Austin, Texas
  • Island Art Show, Galveston, Texas
  • Houston Chronicle, Houston, Texas Artwork Presentation
  • Monticello Gallery, Dallas, Texas - Oil Paintings
  • Earth Works Gallery, Lake Charles, Louisiana - Oil Paintings

1997

  • Art Colony Festival, Houston, Texas
  • Earth Works Gallery, Lake Charles, Louisiana - One-Man Show, Collages

1996

  • Earth Works Gallery, Lake Charles, Louisiana - Oil Paintings
  • Monticello Gallery, Dallas, Texas - Oil Paintings
  • Molina S'avancer Gallery, Houston, Texas - Wood Sculpture and Oil Paintings
  • Spirit Echoes, Austin, Texas - Ten-Man Show
  • La Charl Gallery, Houston, Texas - Oil Paintings
  • Tim Hamrock Interiors, Houston, Texas - Oil Paintings

1995

  • Millioud Gallery, Houston, Texas - Oil Paintings

1994

  • Gabriel Galleries of Houston, Texas - Oil Painting
  • Portrait commissioned by Mr. John Banu Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

1993

  • Florian Arts & Antiques Gallery, Houston, Texas - Oil paintings
  • Painting and sculpting the Iconostas for the Romanian Orthodox Church "Maria Magdalena", Houston, Texas
  • First Romanian Festival, Houston, Texas - Oil Paintings and Sculpture exhibition

1992

  • Oil paintings commissioned by Mrs. Nancy Rome
  • New Orleans Gallery, Houston, Texas
  • Biedermeier Gallery, Houston, Texas
  • Creative Spaces Gallery, Houston, Texas

1991

  • Portraits of ten famous actors, commissioned by Mr. Dick Tenembaum for an Italian Restaurant
  • Portrait of Nolan Ryan commissioned by Mr. Mark Richardson
  • Portrait commissioned by Mr. Don Bray
  • Design Directions International Gallery, Houston, Texas
  • Icons for the Romanian Orthodox Church "St. Maria", Dallas, Texas

1989

  • Sculpture and Graphics - The Writers' Association, Warsaw, Poland

1986

  • Fantasy, One-Man Show, Press and Book Club, Culture Palace, Warsaw, Poland

1985

  • Stage Design Triennial, Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania

1983

  • Painting and Plastic Forms, Municipality Gallery, Bucharest, Romania

1981

  • Stage Design Triennial, Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania

1980

  • Nuances of Feelings, plastic forms, One-Man Show, Studio Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1979

  • Stage Design Triennial, Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania

1976

  • Stage Design Triennial, Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania

1974

  • Caricatures, One-Man Show

1971

  • Stage Design Triennial, Dalles Hall, Bucharest, Romania
  • Painting, One-Man Show, Bacau, Romania

1970

  • Graphics and Scene Drawings, One-Man Show, Bacau, Romania