Current Events Fall 2024:
My work is featured in two art gallery group exhibitions
in New York City!
Final Week:
Viewing Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10 am – 6 pm
Closing reception Friday, September 6th 6 – 8 pm
A selection of my artworks are featured in the group exhibition “Home Is You, Right Now”, curated by Hannah Studnick. For me, these pieces convey Entanglement both as meaning and as physical presence. In a sense, Entanglement in all of these works fall in-between self-obsessed states of Memory and Repetition. All the while, I intend this work to be playfully interactive with its physical and social surroundings, to incite curiosity, introspection, and repeated participation with attendees.
Untitled (Box) is a wooden box that contains a rock and a book. Printed instructions guide the viewer to engage with the piece and to leave their mark inside the pages of the book. Viewers have to overcome their normal experience with art to become part of a record of Cultural Accumulation.The piece Aged is a fully blown balloon constrained by a crocheted string entanglement to trace diffusion during and beyond the exhibition period. The piece Festered, a knitted ball made of hemp, I interpret as both an ordered form of Entanglement and diagram of non-linear time travel. Both Aged and Festered are part of an earlier series of Entanglements identified as “Websites”, due to the scale of the work. My two persona portraits of “Magda” and “Efrosini” (who stares as she holds a knitted ball to the camera) are from performance works I staged at certain sites in Athens Greece. Both personas are entangled with one another and part of a greater cross-cultural narrative called The Nested Selves.
Link to the gallery website: https://www.rubydakota.com/exhibitions
To view the work mentioned here, go to: https://elaineangelopoulos.com/
(Note: you will find Aged and Festered under the series title, “Websites”)
http://www.barristersgallery.com/angelopoulos.html
Opening Tuesday, September 3rd:
“Focus Group”
Group Exhibition on Art and Politics
at
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
31 Mercer Street, NYC 10013
Viewing Hours:
Tuesday – Thursday
1 pm – 5 pm or by appointment
(The exhibition will run through December 2024)
“Show and Tell” is part of the group exhibition “Focus Group”, curated by Marco Nocella.
Further Reading about my work in the exhibition:
The piece in its boxed form contains a collection of flyers, newspaper clippings, brochures, and vintage birth control products that date back to the 1990’s, and additionally QR codes that link to current organizations that provide resources on issues around Sexuality, Contraception and Reproductive Rights.
When I initially made this work in 1992, the box was perched on a wall shelf, accompanied by a pair of white conservation gloves and a magnifying glass. When shown in exhibitions in the early 1990’s, I added condoms and dental dams to the piece as complimentary take-aways for visitors. Inspired by the anti-aesthetic and post-modernist ideas of the time, I chose to create a work with ephemera and consumer products.The volatile subject matter pertained to all bodies, but particularly women’s bodies and LGTBQ bodies, to address multiple taboos in one piece in the context of the world of art that had parameters on how bodies were presented.
A link to the Feldman Gallery website for more information: https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/350-group-exhibition-focus-group