About the Artist
Zorica Pavicevic
Born in Kragujevac, Serbia in 1951 to a family of architects and painters, Zorica Pavićević trained as an architect before art pulled her back in. She graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade in 1975, then spent decades building a respected career as an architect and constructor, earning recognition from the Serbian Chamber of Commerce in 2008 as the most successful female entrepreneur in her domain. In 2009 she left that career behind, moved to the United States, and recommitted herself to painting — the discipline that had shaped her family and her own student years. She now lives and paints in Las Vegas, working across acrylic and mixed media, and continues to experiment with new techniques, textures, and subjects.
“Zorica Pavićević paints the way she once built — starting from structure, then layering color, texture, and hidden meaning on top. Trained as an architect before she became a full-time painter, she brings a builder's sense of construction to canvases made from bold, sweeping strokes and rich, urban-inflected color. Every painting carries a symbol or a secret worth searching for.”
The Process
Inside the Studio
The Painting Process
Zorica starts each canvas the way she once started a building: with structure. Before color goes down, she works out the underlying construction of the piece — the lines and forms that will carry everything else. From there, she builds the background in layers, testing different textures and materials as she goes, often mixing acrylic with other media to get a surface that has real depth up close. She favors large formats, the kind of scale that lets a strongly defined stroke read across a room, and she keeps experimenting even late in a piece — adding a mark, a texture, or a hidden symbol that changes how the whole painting reads once it's finished.
