Athena Petra Tasiopolous
Rebecca Lawrence Gallery: January 10 – February 7, 2020
Athena Petra Tasiopoulos is a mixed media collage artist and fine art photographer. Originally from Pennsylvania, Athena studied photography at the Art Institute of Philadelphia where she graduated at the top of her class in 2008. She currently resides in Barre, Vermont. Her work is collected internationally.
“I work with recycled and found vintage papers encased beneath a layer of beeswax. I gravitate 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. “
“I see my practice as a meditation on transience, transformation, and the beauty of imperfection. An embrace of what is — as it is.”