Stanley Studio Visit with Elena Smyrniotis

Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 8:00pm to 9:00pm

During our studio visit with Elena Smyrniotis, we’ll discuss her current work and practice.  As an artist, Smyrniotis is interested in the exploration of real and fictional islands, their effect on our imagination, and their place in the utopian mentality. Islands are imbued with powerful myths; they combine materiality and metaphor and offer spaces that appear at once open and closed, fixed and fluid, defenseless and resilient, seductive and dangerous. Labyrinth focuses on three major themes...