About

Artist’s Statement

I construct art projects that mirror cultural paradigms from the traumatic to the celebratory, as significant shifts in our ever-changing worlds. My installations and performance pieces invite audiences into a multi-sensory experience beyond traditional disciplines of art practices and exhibition modalities. Stories and ideas unfold as various signs and visual impressions through the arrangements of things in site-specific locations. Daily patterns, landscapes, collective memory, and community are subjects within my multi-media works, interpreted through a curated archive of ephemera and found accessories. Objects, paintings, drawings, and photography are constructed to memorialize or revive the entirety of past experiences, persons, and moments of significance, for further reflection, inspiration, or aspiration.  Conceptual art, activism and social engagement dovetail in my work. Intersectionality, Feminism, Displacement, and Quantum Mechanics have informed my interdisciplinary art practice. I come from a visual art background in painting, drawing and sculpture, but drawn to Conceptual Art and Performance Art, where I continue to forge a new path with an interdisciplinary approach.

 

Biography

 Elaine Angelopoulos lives and works in New York City. She is an artist with an interdisciplinary approach that bridges her studio practice with audience participation, of select installations and performances. Her work has been exhibited in New York, the United States, and Europe. Angelopoulos received a Franklin Furnace Fund/Jerome Fellowship in 2014/15.

For the past few years, Angelopoulos has been included in multiple group exhibitions. Among them were “Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs” and “Focus Group”, were both on Art and Politics shown at Ronald Feldman Gallery, curated by Director, Marco Nocella. In 2023, she completed an epic long term project called “Brooklyn Dreams”, a multi-narrative story and walkabout performance around the Atlantic Yards Footprint and Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn. 

Currently, Angelopoulos has several studio production projects at various stages in progress.  She has editioned pigment prints from prior installations, performances, and public protest documentation. Some are in part of her ongoing series, “The Nested Selves” that feature her persona performance practices, and “Calls to Action”, selections of her archive of activist ephemera and documentation.. Angelopoulos is embarking a production to create a large body of unique works on paper, and a series of experimental video works.

Since 1989 Angelopoulos has been on staff at Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York.

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Education

MFA     2009               Interdisciplinary Studio and Theory. Maine College of Art

BFA     1987                Major: Painting; Minor:  Communications Design. Pratt Institute (Cum Laude)

 

Awards & Grants

2018: Alumni Residency at Maine College of Art

2014/15: Franklin Furnace Fund

2013: Nominated for Anonymous Was A Woman Grant

2012: Honorarium Recipient from Amplify Action/Pratt Institute

2010: Emergency Grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art

2010: Honorarium Recipient from Five Myles Gallery

2009: Maine College of Art Student Scholarship since 2007

2006: Honorarium Recipient from SUNY Plattsburgh

2003: Jerome Fellowship Recipient through Franconia Sculpture Park

1986: Recipient of a Charles A. Dana Foundation Student Award

1983: Pratt Competitive Scholarship

 

Professional Organizations

Current                     Alumni Council, Maine College of Art

2016                         Advisory Board Member: Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Art of Un-War

Since 2010               American Association of Museums

Since 2000               Artist Membership, College Art Association      

Since 1987               Alumni Member, Pratt Institute

 

 

Collectives

2018                           We Make America – artist collective for visual fabrication of signage for street demonstrations

2017                           T.W.A.T. (The Woman’s Artist Team) – Artists who assemble personal works for collective installations and performances

2013                           Arts and Labor – Working Group focused on the rights of artists and service occupations in the art industry

2007                           Artist’s Against the War – Fiscal sponsorship with A.J. Muste Foundation since 2004

1999                           Brooklyn Pro-Choice since 1989

1993                           Woman’s Action Coalition (intermittent participation in actions with Act-UP NY, The Lesbian Avengers, ILGO, and WHAM since 1991

1990                           Coalition Opposed to Censorship in the Arts and the Artist’s Coalition for the Freedom of Expression since 1989