Introduction Georgia Kotretsos is an Athens-based artist, researcher and self-proclaimed professional spectator whose work transcends mediums. She has a unique way of engaging the mind and senses through the often-overlooked intricate process of viewing. Kotretsos studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a Full Merit Scholarship (2004) and at the Durban […]
Mid-September Read: Interview with Thekla Papadopoulou
.Thekla Papadopoulou is an artist currently living, practicing, and teaching art in Cyprus. She was one of the three artists included in the exhibition Sender/Recipient at the Cyprus House in New York. Thekla works on the boundaries of painting, exploring the medium as well as the concepts her works address including natural landscape and […]
Creating Alluring Dystopias: Interview with Ioanna Kythreotou
I came across the work of Ioanna Kythreotou from the group exhibition Sender/Recipient at the House of Cyprus in New York in the summer of 2017. Ioanna lives and works in beautiful, sunny Cyprus. She is among the contemporary artists who are proving painting is far from outdated or outlived. Her work pushes the boundaries […]
Art-Athina: An International Summer Art Fair
Art-Athina just came to a close in Athens where it takes place every year, and I am glad to say it was with great success! This year it took place June 21 – 24 and comprised not only of the visit-and-view-within-the-fair-grounds model of an international art fair but also offered exciting parallel programming. Art-Athina included numerous group […]
An Exhibition Catalog that will Channel your Wanderlust
The exhibition Charmed Lives in Greece: Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor opened at the British Museum in London when I was (and would be for the foreseeable future) in New York. Naturally, this led to a strong and dreadful feeling of missing out. This exhibition promised to present the intricate links between three key figures in the […]
Layered History: Jenny Saville's "Byzantium"
Jenny Saville’s latest work exhibited at Gagosian’s Jenny Saville: Ancestors in Chelsea, New York is markedly layered both literally and figuratively speaking. What do I mean? First of all, her artistic process is revealed on the canvas. After you take in a work as a whole and begin to notice sections, in one area you may […]
Currently Working on: Historical Journals
As of the past few months I have spent quite some time on a new project for a Greek-American community located in Chelsea who are celebrating 100 years of presence in the neighborhood in April. To accompany their Gala, the Community of Saint Eleftherios wanted to publish an historical journal that would account for their […]
Connecting Painting and Sculpture by way of Unsuspecting, Inanimate Objects
Have you ever walked into a gallery, and upon encountering a work, you got a sense of déjà vu? You see, like many others working in the art field, I have a habit of going about, visiting museums and galleries. This, in turn, leads to the semi-obsessive researching of artists whose works I am less familiar […]
Mapping Human Dignity, and Redefining Borders in Contemporary Filmography
, Currently, Ai Weiwei has put up works all around New York City in a multi-location and multi-disciplinary exhibition titled Good Fences Make Good Neighbors that he created by working with Public Art Fund. The interdisciplinary works the artist has made for this occasion aim to make viewers question populist notions on the necessity of barriers, and […]