Recent Work
For the past decade Drdak’s work has employed the unique synthesis of repoussé metalwork and painting. This congress of materials—the first of its kind—was pioneered by Drdak and definitively established during her 2011 Fulbright research fellowship to Nepal where she studied with the finest living masters of this elite practice, the grandsons of the famed Kuber Singh Shakya of Patan, Nepal. Drdak is the first and only artist to date working with this material synthesis..
Aeolus 2019 Copper repoussé elements, abraded acrylic and mineral particles on archival cradled wood tondo, 36 x 1.5 inches. Private Collection, Italy
Oracle 1 2016 Copper repoussé elements, mineral particles and abraded acrylic on archival cradled wood panel, 26 x 26 x 1 inches.
Personal Collection of Rebecca Segall, Owner and Director, Gross McCleaf Gallery.
Prayer for Khaled al Asaad 2016 Abraded acrylic and mineral particles on archival cradled wood panel, 22 x 22 x 1 inches. Private Collection, USA.
An homage to Khaled Al Asaad, the great Iraqi curator beheaded by ISIS on August 18, 2015, at the age of eighty-three, for his courageous defense of the world heritage site of Palmyra in Syria; a study for a larger future work.
Weeping Banyan 1 2015 Copper repoussé elements, mineral particles, and abraded acrylic on archival cradled wood panel, 14 x 12 x 1.25 inches.
Weeping Banyan 2, 2015, Copper repoussé elements, mineral particles, and abraded acrylic on archival cradled wood panel. 24 x 18 x 1 inches.
Private Collection
Weeping Banyan 3 2015 Copper repoussé elements, acrylic mineral particles, and abraded acrylic on archival cradled wood panel, 30 x 26 x 2 inches.