ATHENS OPEN ART 2 6 T H
N O V E M B E R
GALLERY
SNEHTA
NODNOL EXHIBITIONS
INDEX
1. AL3X! 2. SARAH FENWICK 3. ANDRIANA KALOGRIDI 4. ROYA ISSA 5. STAVRI PIDIA 6. DART OF ARES 7. CEYLA BUYUKSARAC 8. MARIA FELIP LLAVAYOL 9. OLGA SHCHEBLYKINA 10. BIANCA OLIMPIA ABĂCIOAEI 11. BÉRÉNICE SABIN 12. NANDAMS
AL3X!
IG: @alxktg al3X! is a Greek American abstract artist who was born in Houston, Texas.He currently resides in Athens, Greece although has spent many years living in Glasgow, UK, Houston, TX, Seattle, WA and Miami, FL. His first attempt at art was in the early ’80s when, as an elementary student, he was asked to paint his school wall. In the years that followed, his interests grew and he began to draw inspiration from abstract sounds and popular visuals. He lists the main influence on his art as a need to comprehend and outline human relationships and interactions, as well as social challenges and their impact. al3X! predominantly works with acrylics, sprays and markers on canvas and wood, with an emphasis on the use of lines and shapes, showing influence from graphic design and street art. His list of influences includes pop art culture, street art, Futura 2000, V. Kandinsky, G. Richter, and others.
SARAH FENWICK FB: sarahfenwickartist
Sarah Fenwick is an English-Cypriot artist living in Nicosia, Cyprus. Her background as a jazz singer inspires her paintings with musical themes and she is keen to transform the big ideas of life and the Universe into visual art. She is interested in artistic crossovers, where different elements become part of a whole performance. The crossroads where a face becomes part of a landscape and a tree or building become part of a dance. The crossings Where the light becomes a spotlight and you can hear music and rhythm in the flow of the paint. Where the paintbrush becomes an improvisational voice singing about a moment that brings together past, future and present in a new yet familiar way.
ANDRIANA KALOGRIDI mailto:andieinspirit@gmail.com
Graduate of English Language and Literature she finds solitude in painting. Escaping everyday hustles and modern living struggles, she achieves inner peace through the pictures that face her. Her purpose is to come closer to nature and her true self. She tries to interpret and acknowledge hidden feelings and welcome new ideas. She makes Art.
ROYA ISSA IG: @royaissa.art
I am grateful, that I saw the world through the eyes of everyone I met, so I lived many lives, those lives were the creators of my paintings not me, I was just the tool." With these words, Roya began her website. Born in 1973, is a Syrian contemporary artist, lives and works in Berlin. Although Roya has been painting since childhood, her real career as an artist began in Cologne in 2014, when she was invited by “Heinrich Böll Foundation” as an artist in residence in Cologne. Later, in 2018, she moved to Berlin, where she started her new art project.
STAVRI PIDIA IG:@stavripidia Stavri Pidia is a contemporary visual artist, born and raised in Limassol, Cyprus. She holds a Bachelor degree in Graphic Design from DMU in Leicester, a Master's Degree in Digital Media and Journalism from University of Technology in Cyprus and she is currently studying her second Master's on Art’s and Culture Management in Rome Business School in Italy. Stavri has been a professional artist since 2018. So far, she had two solo exhibitions and took part in more than 10 group art exhibitions, all over Cyprus. Her artwork is inspired by her social concerns and how she views the world through them, and usually expresses them through abstract figures and vivid colors.
DART OF ARES IG:@dartofares
Dart of Ares is a self-taught digital artist specialising in collages. She draws upon sacred places and the notion of spirituality and religion intertwined in quotidian or mundane objects and subjects. The inspiration behind the collages is the sense of a higher power watching over us. The main aim is to convey a feeling of peace and solace through them, whilst demystifying the idea of a severe and stiffed spirituality. Cocoon series represents the passage through life, death, and resurrection
CEYLA BUYUKSARAC IG: @jlartb
Turkey based artist Ceyla finds her art to be the ultimate tool of expression on her path to spiritual awakening. She starts to paint as she explores her inner self, turns her gaze inside to give form to her anger, fear, joy etc. As she explored the recesses of her psyche, she realized that only when she doesn't label her feelings as good/bad, positive/negative do they flow in harmony. You can clearly see that balance in her art. She mentions: ‘’My art is neither amazing or awful but one can feel the textures, lose themselves in colors or see worlds within worlds with endless possibilities, and hopefully see the harmony of duality in all things”.
MARIA FELIP LLAVAYOL (DEMIAMARTE) IG:@demiamarte Maria Felip is a painter from Barcelona who discovered oil paint when she was 5 years old. After 18 years experimenting through realistic portraits, landscapes, sea paintings... she is know rediscovering expression through abstract art and any kind of technique (oil, acrylic, watercolor, chinese ink...). Her main aim is to express her emotional world through art "and paint everything with passion and love". Moreover, she's been tattooing as well this last year in order to expand her horizons and bring art into the skin. These pieces are part of her first introspective work, where she found and healed herself through the pleasure of painting.
OLGA SHCHEBLYKINA IG:@olgashcheblykina
Olga Shcheblykina (1986, Voronezh, Russia) is a visual artist currently based in Steyr(Austria). Her main media are painting, installation and photography. She is exploring themes of sensitivity, vulnerability, corporeality and feminism. Studied in the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow and the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She participated in group exhibitions in such art spaces as K35 Space(Moscow, Russia), Contemporary Art (DOCA) International Festival (Moscow), White Room (Moscow, Russia). In 2015 worked with Tobias Zielony in Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts(Salzburg, Austria). Currently is studying in the fine arts program at the Art University in Linz (Austria).
ABO, ABĂCIOAEI BIANCA OLIMPIA IG: @bianca_olimpia Bianca Olimpia Abăcioaei, known as ABO, is an artist and interior architect from Bucharest, Romania. Through her art, sheintend s to offer the viewer a moment of meditation and detachment from the concrete reality. The artist’s works are characterized by an abstract, graphic style with dynamic and ductile lines that describe characters with a feminine prevalence, the symbol of the eternal and endless creation.The main themes she addresses are the ones of the human creation and the close connection between human and nature, with elements from Romanian art and tradition and also from Byzantine or Japanese art The colours she uses, black and gold symbolize the earth and the light, the terrestrial and the cosmic.
BÉRÉNICE SABIN IG: @berenicesabin
Bérénice Sabin is a self-taught expressionist abstract artist, she is currently exhibiting her works in Paris in the famous artistic district of the Marais. It was during the first confinement linked to Covid -19 that she devoted herself to painting and developed an abstract and conscious art close to action painting. Bérénice draws her inspiration from quantum physics, neuropsychology and meditation, she uses the knife technique to create a kind of MRI of her limbic brain in full neuroplasticity which releases emotions that expand in bright colors and clusters of textures and dissipate in the darkness of dark matter. Abstraction allows her to break free from the constraints of reality to question the place occupied by mental health in our society through plural and free cosmic universes.
NANDAMS IG: @nan.dams
Nandams, is a greek pop art painter and a new media artist, influenced mostly by Robert Raucshenberg and Keith Haring. Since 2019 specializes on digital art and fine art giclée prints. Her real name is Nadia Adamopoulos and she is currently based in Athens, Greece. Nandams she has studied journalism and media communications in Athens
ATHENS OPEN ART 26th November