Welcome! A Ringling College of Art and Design Illustration Senior, I desire to captivate my audience, enticing them to care about the world around them by evoking everyday -- or hidden -- creatures, through bold and detailed work. I work in most visual art media, including oil paint, graphite, collage, ink, and many more forms. I am also captivated by wildlife, landscape, and street life photography, sometimes enchanting with a bit of fantasy to wake things up. 
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My work has touched on a kaleidoscope of themes, from small business brand designs to greeting cards to book covers. I personally have a goal to give an artistic and interpretive voice to both climate and humanitarian concerns, which sometimes overlap. My experience with the Mote Aquarium and Laboratory sealed this goal for me. I will never cease to explore the bridge between science and art, by studying different aspects in the infinite scientific world, including botany, astronomy, sacred geometry, or anthropology, for example.
 
Increasingly, I am becoming mesmerized by nano-creatures that populate this Earth: Such a symbiotic part of our lives, whether beneath our feet in the soil, or among critters in or on our trees, or among the seeds and organisms wafting through the air. These are many of the unsung heroes of our Earth, of bio-diversity, and of our own survival. 
 
You will notice my predilection for fantasy, too. Come journey with my art. Growing up Franco-American but born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and attempting to travel far and wide whenever I can, where my next stop was/is often strange and unusual, it's no wonder that fantasy plays a significant role in my work. Life can indeed be stranger than fiction sometimes.
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I currently take commissions and am looking for career opportunities to help make a difference in the world. Please email me at czelenko@c.ringling.edu for any questions or comments.

View my resume here.