Dimitrios Antonitsis: Philosophobia
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Diane Mayo: Large Vessels

Exhibition: March 18 – April 15, 2004
Reception: March 18th 6 - 8pm

 

 

Dimitrios Antonitsis: Philosophobia

A graduate of the New York Film Academy and a former fashion photographer, Dimitrios Antonitsis is keenly aware of the different ways that reality can be altered.

The artist’s source material comes from a set of slides depicting a Greek family in the Seventies. Antonitsis appropriates the scenes of daily-life yet their lives take on a universal quality through a blurring of the vignettes with digital manipulation.

Antonitsis attempts to dismantle fixed beliefs by juxtaposing conflicting stereotypes and allowing the viewer to seek his own reality.

Antonitsis says his compositions “are always asking for wonder, even awe, but not belief”. The artist’s work has been exhibited in Turin, London, Zurich, Weimar and at Documenta in Kassel.

 

 

 

 

 

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Diane Mayo: Large Vessels

Since the early nineteen eighties Diane Mayo has had fifteen solo exhibitions. Ms Mayo’s ceramic work has been widely exhibited in the United States in recent years and was shown in Germany in 1994.

The noted art critic and author Rose C.S. Slivka has written, “Diane Mayo is in a class by herself as a potter, making uncanny habitats for a world of birds, beasts, fish and creatures of her imagination. Hand-rolled from slabs, they are without a doubt among the most original pottery forms we have seen anywhere”.

Other critics who have written essays on her work include Phyllis Braff, Gerrit Henry and Amai Wallach.