IDA FLOREAK
IDA FLOREAK
Ida Floreak is a New Orleans-based artist originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied painting and scientific illustration. Floreak spent time in Rome with RISD’s European Honors Program and worked as an archaeological illustrator on the Poggio Civitate Archaeological Project in Vescovado di Murlo, which greatly influenced her creative practice.
Floreak’s work deals with ecological anxieties paired with reverence for the natural world. She explores what it means to be human in a time of ecological disaster, where to find hope and our place in the recovery, as well as the universal human trait of worship. Humanity is an ancient and vital part of the planets ecology - our belief systems and rituals are an integral facet of nature. Drawing from a classical tradition with influences in the Italian Renaissance and medieval reliquaries, she examines the importance of acknowledging a world and systems greater than oneself, and finding the sacred in the smallest artifacts of nature.
In addition to Louisiana, Floreak has shown her work in Massachusetts, Mississippi, Tennessee and Wisconsin. In 2016, she was selected for the juried exhibition “Louisiana Contemporary” at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and in 2019, she had a solo exhibition, “Punctuated Evolution” at the Staniar Gallery of Washington & Lee University. Floreak’s work was also included in the group exhibition, “The Dandelion: A Symbol of Resistance” at the Longue Vue House & Gardens (2023). Floreak’s work is included in a number of private and public collections. She was profiled by national publication Garden & Gun in 2022 and has also been featured in New Orleans Magazine and Apartment Therapy. In 2023, she was interviewed for a segment aired on the Public Broadcasting Station titled “Art Rocks!”.
Portrait of the artist in her studio.
Altar/Pomegranate Oil on panel, 48 x 48 in., $6550
Resurrect(Diptych)
Tondo/Pomegranate Oil on panel, dia. 14 in., $1900
DandelionSun Oil on panel, 14 x 11 in., $1700
DandelionMoon Oil on panel, 14 x 11 in., $1700
Float/Beetle Oil on board, 12 x 9 in., framed, $1625
Altar/Wasp Oil on panel, 10 x 8 in., $1200
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Altar/Censer Oil on panel, 10 x 8 in., $1200
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TheWatchers
Oil on panel, 4 x 4 in., $540
Archives
This work and those on the following pages are archived pieces from Floreak’s studio from the earlier part of her career.
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Altar/WaterBug Oil on panel, 35 x 35 in., $4760. Note: This work was included in Floreak’s solo exhibition at Washington & Lee University.
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Halo/Diamond Oil on panel, 12 x 9 in., $1450. Note: This an archive work by Ida that was painted in 2015.
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Altar/Beetle Oil on panel, 10 x 8 in., $1200. Note: This an archive work by Ida.
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Halo/Crystal Oil on panel, 8 x 8 in., $1100. Note: This an archive work by Ida.
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Oil on panel, 8 x 6 in., $950. Note: This an archive work by Ida.
Halo/Beetle
