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by Katrine Hildebrandt-Hussey
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by Athena Petra Tasiopoulos
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by krista Mezzadri
about the artists
(b. 1982) is a Boston-based visual artist whose work is inspired by sacred geometry and the metaphysical mapping of space and time. Using volatile processes like burning paper, the artist creates layered, geometric work. She primarily explores patterns, and meditates on the correlation between chaos and order, permanence and transience, and the interconnectivity of the universe. She earned her BFA at Hartwick College and her MFA in Sculpture at Massachusetts College of Art & Design.
Hildebrandt-Hussey’s work references sacred spaces and architecture from many different cultures, drawing on familiar visual signs or symbols and rearranging them into a new layered map. Every drawing is a diagram of energies and forces that aim to connect the conscious with the unconscious through hypnotic, trance-inducing compositions. The process of handling burning paper is ritualistic and meditative in action, but it also reflects the duality of life, permanence and transience.
is a mixed media collage artist and fine art photographer based in central vermont. Originally from Pennsylvania, Athena studied photography at the Art Institute of Philadelphia where she graduated at the top of her class in 2008.
Her work aims to illustrate the beauty, fragility, and truth of the present moment; the meditative poetry that can be found in the quiet and mundane. Tasiopoulos Works with recycled and found vintage papers encased beneath a layer of beeswax, gravitating toward soft, muted colors — warmed and stained by time. Repetitive patterns and primitive marks carved and scraped into the surface of the wax speak to the imperfections of the human hand and the vulnerability of materiality. a meditation on transience, transformation, and the beauty of imperfection, her practice is An embrace of what is — as it is.
(b. 1987) Lives and works in Buffalo, New York.
“I engage with the coexistence of opposites, therefore my work includes many opposing physical elements together, like tissue and wood, light and darkness, geometry and irregularity. Taken a step further, I’m interested in the meeting point of these opposites, their dynamic dependence which only alludes to beauty.
In my ongoing body of work, I make monotype prints by hand on translucent washi paper, layer and overlap the sheets, and laminate them together onto wood panels with paste. I arrived at my current process while investigating a way to layer forms in monotypes by utilizing translucent paper, rather than ink, as the layering element.
Throughout the work is an emphasis on a triangular motif, which I explore by relying on the gestural characteristic of my wrist in action with the tool. Additionally, the overlapped sheets create innumerable varying emotive forms, bringing an organic element to the rough geometry. There are aspects of the layering process that are spontaneous and couldn’t be replicated or considered before their immediate genesis; in effect, the imagery is born from the process.”