SPEKTRE emphasizes perpetual dialogue as the connecting force that will run throughout the program of the gallery, rendering it a platform for the exchange of ideas, as well as of collaboration and constructive competition, diversity and endless discovery. The exhibition Meeting Point is an example of this dialogue.

Sculptor Antonia Papatzanaki presents luminous wall reliefs and one of laser-etched Plexiglas. The artist is creating a personal sculptural vocabulary by introducing a dialectic between light and its juxtaposition with solid impenetrable materials that are used metaphorically to express spiritual and philosophical quests.

Her new series of untitled wall sculptures are constructed from bronze or stainless steel, Plexiglas or glass, and fluorescent lights. The works emit light that is formed as it passes through the transparent or translucent materials, which penetrate the opaque metal surfaces. Light, exceeding the metal confines of the work, saturates the space and highlights the possibility of transcending the limits of human consciousness from the restrictions of our material reality.

Born in Greece, Antonia Papatzanaki currently maintains studios in both New York and Athens. Papatzanaki was educated in Athens School of Fine Arts, in Vienna Hochschule für Angenwandte Kunst, and in New York, Pratt Institute where she acquired her MFA. She is the recipient of many awards (F.V.S. zu Hamburg Foundation, Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation, Gerondelis Foundation, Lynn, MA, Foundation for Hellenic Culture, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, and Katonah Museum of Art, NY) and has gained first prizes for public art work installations.

Spektre Art Gallery is also presenting a new series of large scale photographs and a body of recent drawings by Sophia Petrides. The artist’s work evolves as an ongoing examination of personal observations of our public and private space that defies clear classification into single series. She proposes an installation based on the concept of happiness and terror of our self-imposed delusions of grandeur.

Sophia Petrides, born in Greece, currently lives and works in New York City and Berlin. She completed a BA in Sculpture at the Parsons School of Design, New York City in 1992. She also has a Bachelor of Political Sciences from Panteio University of Athens and a degree in Literature and Photography from Deree College, Athens. She has presented solo exhibitions in the US (Poetics of Intimacy, Photography, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, USA 2006 / Multi-media Installation, DHG Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 1999 / Non Fiction, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, USA 1996), and two in Korea (My Envy Multi- media Installation, Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2006).

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