Shift. Breathe. Expand: Painting in Space
13 Sep - 20 October, 2023
Amelie A Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, New York
Expanding our understanding of painting and sculpture, Eleanna Anagnos and Alexis Granwell teamed up to present Shift. Breathe. Expand. Painting in Space. Featuring works made of handmade paper, this exhibition brings forth the artists' drive and ability to shed light on the potential of this undermined medium: making it shift, making it breath, making it expand in space.
Anagnos (Mexico City) and Granwell (Philadelphia) met in 2019 and engaged in a prolific exchange that would soon become friendship. Together, they explored the potential of paper pulp to challenge their own position as female contemporary artists.
Shift. Breathe. Expand.Painting is Space featured works from the last decade to the present and allowed the spectator to experience first hand the pillars of their unique process. In this three room installation, the viewer had the opportunity to walk through the artists’ ongoing collaboration and experimentation with new techniques shifting from common painterly practices; their assertion and defiance towards the ‘feminine’; and their constant research on paper as a malleable, sustainable, medium, which enables us to expand our approach to painting.
“This apposite pairing of two conceptually rigorous artists provokes myriad questions about process, composition and the materiality of paper”
