4 Questions With Grace Korandovich

If you’ve at any time taken a selfie at Easton Town Center, likelihood are you’ve posed with one particular of Grace Korandovich’s luscious flower valances. The artist finds it tricky to contain her creativity, her daring and gorgeous art shows and installations scale partitions and fill rooms for clients together with the Diamond Cellar, The Athletic Club of Columbus, Flowers & Bread, Stile Salon and other space tiny enterprises.

“A ton of what I create is influenced by the surroundings, organic shapes, motion and the theory of circulation. Often, I’m just connecting with the product. I am an airy gentle really feel of an artist. I like to perform with texture a lot,” suggests Korandovich, who owns Grace K Layouts.

Collaborating with manner designer Tracy Powell, Korandovich will be exhibiting what she describes as a “Mad Max themed design” at this year’s Wonderball. Beneath she tells us about her journey from lacrosse to art, and how she is flourishing by contemplating outside of canvas.

Grace Korandovich

Q: You began college as an athlete, but also experienced an fascination in art. How did you reconcile equally pursuits?

Korandovich: I’ve normally been the nontraditional athlete and also the nontraditional artists. Both have balanced me my whole lifetime. I went to San Diego State University to enjoy lacrosse. I took that route versus heading to artwork faculty, and it became additional of a obstacle than I understood. I double majored organization and art, and I had to acquire a stage again from my artwork and make it a slight. It was just also tricky to do on the highway. Then I recognized that there was a deficiency of stability in my lacrosse playing.

I was not accomplishing nicely and it was because I didn’t have my regular art regimen in my life. I took some time off amongst undergrad and graduate university, just seeking to determine out my daily life. I realized I truly missed my art and that’s when I determined I essential to make that my target once again. It was a pure match to go to the Columbus University of Art and Style for grad faculty. I took a chance and it was the only put I utilized.

Q: Your operate incorporates standard canvas artwork, but even some of that arrives off of the canvas. Have you constantly been so deliberately massive and bold with your function?

Korandovich: I went from major to smaller and smaller is not truly modest for me. Most of my operate is produced up of multiples. Every item could stand by yourself, but I like to increase multiples with each other to build a more substantial piece. In grad faculty I had a mentor who challenged me to go small, mainly because I had to discover that not all people has a two-story wall in their house that they could put artwork on that spans 30 ft extensive! I went via a process to try out and scale down my operate. The smallest I have gotten to is 12×12. I tend to produce large items and tailor again.

Q: During the pandemic, it was wonderful to working experience your artwork at Easton at a time wherever most couldn’t working experience artwork in museums and galleries. Can you communicate about bringing your art to these nontraditional areas?

Korandovich: It’s about a relationship and making another person experience anything. My target is to give people pleasure, enthusiasm, one thing just to quit them in their tracks. A very little a thing to make their day far better.

Q: Your Wonderball set up is a collaboration with vogue designer Tracy Powell. What is it like collaborating with one more artist from a unique discipline?

Korandovich: Most artists are very open to collaborations. The in addition for me is mastering a further way of imagining or a different method of executing and viewing points as a result of other people’s eyes. I imagine it can teach you a large amount. I believe collaboration can only make you more robust as an artist.



Donna Marbury is a journalist, communications guide and owner of Donna Marie Consulting. The Columbus native was not long ago named as a board member of Cbus Libraries, and stays busy with her 7-calendar year-aged son and editorial assistant, Jeremiah.