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.
Currently, Angelopoulos is in “Focus Group”, a group exhibition on Art and Politics at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, curated by Director, Marco Nocella. A selection of works by Angelopoulos was recently featured in an inaugural group exhibition “Home is You, Right Now”, curated by Hannah Studnick, founder/director of Ruby/Dakota Gallery in New York City. I 2024, Angelopoulos presented two performance works: “Pace the Tremors” in part of their “Furtive Speech” series at The Opening Gallery, curated by Sozita Goudouna; and “Brooklyn Dreams”, an epic work funded by Franklin Furnace. A video work for “Brooklyn Dreams” is available to view on Vimeo.
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 served as a Preparator and Manager of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc. in New York. Beginning in 2009, Angelopoulos has been a private consultant to artists and their career strategies, providing private instruction of video editing practices with artists.
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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
