Artist's Statement

Speculative Grammar

I am part of a diaspora. I navigate different longings. I want to assimilate, to rebel, to absorb, to release. Of course these dichotomies are facile and exemplary of the strictures of language, rather than the true multiplicities of experience. It is these multiplicities that are most interesting to me because they offer a more real representation of the events in our perception.

While my Greek ethnicity informs my fascination with the structure of Anglo-American class and culture (including the regulation of race), my gender experience informs my fascination with identity constructs from fashion, to color, to "taste", as well as the organization and codes of power, sex, and control. In addition, the constant changes in science and technology elicit in me feelings of wonder and concern. I explore these detail-oriented investigations through my art making process.

The contradictions and structural errors of society's systems are major sources of inspiration for me. I find that these paradigms are often tenuous despite their seeming dominance. The absurdity of daily experience, my wariness of hierarchies, and my general aversion to didactic narrative, have led me to metaphoric abstraction. The ensuing narrative, composed of mostly essential imagery, dots and lines for example, and its origination from process, reflects my interest not in specificity and oration, but rather in exploration and possibility. Still, I often work with non-art and found materials expressly for the varied metaphors inherent in them. By embracing notions that are seemingly ambiguous, whether manifested in a single artwork or extracted from a body of work, the process of observation will be enriched and perhaps revised. Specifically, I encourage the viewer of my work to visualize alternatives to hierarchies and constructs in terms of color and perspective and also in terms of socialized ideas.

Artist's Bio

BORN:        October 31, 1967, Athens, Greece

EDUCATION:
2001    MFA, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana        
1996    BFA, Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts,                    Boston, Massachusetts
1995    Fall Semester, College Year in Athens, Athens, Greece

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS:
2002        Resident Artist, Fort George, Annotto Bay, Jamaica
2001        Resident Artist, Schloss Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
Louisiana Education Quality Support Fellowship and Residency
(LEQSF)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001      μετα-PERCEPTIONS, Brown Gallery, Duke University,Durham, North Carolina
            μετα-PERCEPTIONS, Fine Arts Gallery, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
            μετα-PERCEPTIONS, Kenyon Gallery, Schoolhouse Center for Art and Design, Provincetown, Massachusetts

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001        Galerie Im Andechshof, Stadt Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
              Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana (2 Person Show)
              BING BANG, Isaac Delgado Community College, New Orleans, Louisiana (2 Person Show)
1999        THE NEXT WAVE, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana