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Art Athina, Athens /Tenri Cultural Institute NYC 2007
Art Athina, Athens /Tenri Cultural Institute NYC 2007
Roberta Waddell curator of prints on Sandworks


Dark Tree in Greenwood
2007
photo, unique silkscreen on 9 pieces of sandpaper
84x69 cm/33x27 in
2007
photo, unique silkscreen on 9 pieces of sandpaper
84x69 cm/33x27 in
The black sandpaper served as a negative and the different sizes of the grain finally distorted the image, like the passing of time …
Pelagia Kyriazi
Pelagia Kyriazi


Father/Mother
2002
unique silkscreen on 4 pieces of sandpaper
45x55 cm/18x22 in
2002
unique silkscreen on 4 pieces of sandpaper
45x55 cm/18x22 in
My interest in death, the final destination to which we are all bound, began long before I could manifest it artistically. When I visited Brooklyn’s Greenwood Cemetery with a friend whose family is buried there, I was inspired to materialize the idea that germinated so many years ago. It was a cold, cloudy day in 1995. That in its poeticism appealed to my senses and I began photographing gravestones. The black and white film was a suitable medium to capture the grayness of the day, and the sorrowful gloominess of the environment brought about an impact about the finality of death.
These colorless shots acted as a matrix for me to launch a creative investigation of different printmaking techniques combining photography and silkscreen. I printed the images on sandpaper of varying grain, arriving at a textured composition that strengthened the melancholy tone of my theme. By increasing the grainy quality of the support I was able to effect a blurriness that was analogous to the fading-out of life itself. I worked with the juxtaposition of negative and positive figures and space. On the black sandpaper, the shapes materialize as phantasms if the paint application is tightly controlled or varied according to the desired effect. The key to this technique is finding the balance that renders a sensitive print.
Pelagia Kyriazi
These colorless shots acted as a matrix for me to launch a creative investigation of different printmaking techniques combining photography and silkscreen. I printed the images on sandpaper of varying grain, arriving at a textured composition that strengthened the melancholy tone of my theme. By increasing the grainy quality of the support I was able to effect a blurriness that was analogous to the fading-out of life itself. I worked with the juxtaposition of negative and positive figures and space. On the black sandpaper, the shapes materialize as phantasms if the paint application is tightly controlled or varied according to the desired effect. The key to this technique is finding the balance that renders a sensitive print.
Pelagia Kyriazi


Sandwork
2009
unique silkscreen overpainted with soft pastels on 4 pieces of sandpaper
56x46 cm/22x18 in
2009
unique silkscreen overpainted with soft pastels on 4 pieces of sandpaper
56x46 cm/22x18 in


"Sandworks" exhibition
2007
Printmaking
2007
Printmaking
Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City
exhibition curated by art historian
Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos
exhibition curated by art historian
Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos
Sandworks
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