OPENING NEXT WEDNESDAY MARCH 4th, 2026 6:00-8:00 pm
Magda on Stone Bench Backstage of the Herodes Atticus Theater 2010; image from site-specific performance at the Acropolis in Athens Greece in 2007
Celebrate International Women's Day at the opening of
Euclid's Finite to Zeno's Infinite: Hellenic - American Women Artists
Curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos
On view through March 31st
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New York, N.Y. — The Consulate General of Greece in New York, in celebration of International Women’s Month, proudly presents the group exhibition Euclid’s Finite to Zeno’s Infinite: Hellenic-American Women Artists, curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos.
The exhibition will be on view from March 4–31, 2026, and will open with an RSVP reception on Wednesday, March 4, from 6:00–8:00 p.m.
The artworks featured in this exhibition are stylistically varied, ranging from naturalistic to abstracted and geometric approaches, a diversity that gave rise to the title Euclid’s Finite to Zeno’s Infinite. Euclid’s Elements articulate a conception of space grounded in finitude, measure, and formal containment, structured through points without magnitude, bounded lines, and circumscribed planes governed by axioms of proportionality and logical closure. This geometric order privileges clarity, presence, and tactile intelligibility over abstraction or infinity, resonating with the common characterization of the Classical Greek worldview as oriented toward the bounded body and the self-contained form. In contrast to this Apollonian logic of closed form and corporeal measure, Zeno of Elea’s reflections on the infinite introduce a decisive disturbance into the Greek confidence in finitude and stable identity. Zeno’s infinite functions as a philosophical rupture rather than an expansion of space, aligning with what Nietzsche later identifies as a Dionysian force of dissolution and becoming that destabilizes the principle of individuation.
Euclid’s Finite to Zeno’s Infinite: Hellenic-American Women Artists proposes figuration and abstraction not as stylistic opposites, but as philosophically charged modalities through which the classical dialectic between measure and excess, stability and flux, is materially enacted.
Participating artists:
Eozen Agopian; Elaine Angelopoulos; Laura Donson; Angie Drakopoulos; Morfy Gikas; Zoe Keramea; Artemis Kotioni; Eirini Linardaki; Despo Magoni; Nefeli Massia; Despina Myriokefalitaki-Zografos; Antonia Papatzanaki; Ioanna Pantazopoulou; Marita Pappa; Anna Samara; Triada Samaras; Dimitra Skandali; Lydia Venieri; Fotini Vurgaropoulou.
For more information:
Please contact the curator, Thalia Vrachopoulos, at 646-344-9009 or tv***********@***il.com, or the initiator of the exhibition, Antonia Papatzanaki, at 917-213-5949 or ap******@***oo.com.
Viewing Hours:
Monday–Friday, 10:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
Consulate General of Greece in New York
69 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10075
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