Present Tense Artist Talks

Present Tense #9 Juror: C Fodoreanu, Founder, Fodorneau House, La Jolla, California; Co-Founder + Art Director, level of service not required, La Jolla, California

Each edition of Present Tense Artist Talks will have a different juror of note drawn from across North America, and each juror will select three presenters for the talks, and four additional artists for the portfolio walk. The fourth presenter at each Present Tense talk is a student selected by the faculty of a participating college.

About C

C Fodoreanu was born into a family with a long tradition of icon painting in Transylvania, Romania. He started painting before inherently transitioning to different mediums and modalities to create his art, from creative writing, photography and collages, to videos, drawings, installations and sculptures. His work pursues a poetry of light, and explores the human body as a metaphor for how humans relate to the surrounding nature and each other, faith, mythology, play, love, intimacy, memory, fleetingness of time, and the fragility of life. 

C Fodoreanu holds a BA in Philosophy from UC San Diego, an MD from Harvard Medical School, and a MFA from School of Visual Arts in New York. As a physician who studied philosophy and art, he developed an intimate knowledge of the human anatomy and psyche, and a keen psycho-social acumen. This affords him a unique position as an artist to relate, transcend, and personalize his understandings of humans and human nature into layered visual works. He is the author of three poetry books (Romanian), a photography monograph (English), and his visual work belongs to private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. 

C Fodoreanu is the founder of Fodoreanu House, a premier Art Atelier in La Jolla, CA devoted to discovering and promoting amazing emerging artists from all around the world through publishing and exhibiting their amazing works of art. Additionally, he is the co-founder and serves as the Art Director for level of service not required a Contemporary Art Gallery in La Jolla, CA. The gallery was founded in San Diego, CA by four physicians who are also visual artists with the goal of showcasing non-conformist artists with bold perspectives about the human body and quintessential human experiences and emotions. They are focused on supporting local artists in addition to introducing artists from US and around the world with visionary and in your face attitudes - this is not a usual art gallery. 

You can find C’s work on his website www.cfodoreanu.com and you can find out more about Fodorneau House at the art atelier’s website www.fodoreanu.com and level of service not required at the gallery’s website www.losnotrequired.com. Also you can check our their respective Instagram accounts @cfodoreanu, @fodoreanu.house, and @losnotrequired.

Submissions & File Formats - DEADLINE TO SUBMIT JUNE 28 , 2026

You are invited to submit 15–20 images from a single body of work. If selected, all of these files will be projected at Present Tense Artist Talks during your presentation. You will also be asked to bring printed versions of these images to the event for the public portfolio walk, in addition to the digital files used for projection. If your work extends beyond traditional prints, you are welcome to bring mixed media or three-dimensional pieces that represents the project.

File Requirements:

JPEG files only

Files must be 2000px in the long dimension, saved at 1MB or smaller

Images must be numbered in the sequence you want them seen, with title, media and year using this naming convention:

sequence #-title-media-year.jpg

example: 01-Seaweed-Cyanotype-2023

Incomplete submissions will not be considered.