ELEANNA ANAGNOS
RESUME
Evanston, Illinois (1980)
She is a Greek-American artist and curator whose practice is situated at the crossroads and thresholds between painting, sculpture and drawing. For over twenty years, she has developed research around primitive memory, symbol-making, touch, ritual, color, and the formation of meaning, with the goal of generating a body of work that is difficult to categorize or experience univocally within a single medium. Since 2017, paper pulp has become the material that has best allowed her to expand this exploration, opening for her a vast field of creation.
Her approach to paper arises from an experimental and process-oriented practice, where the pulp functions as a tactile material that generates a sense of intimacy. Her works, introspective and haptic, are often presented in three-dimensional installations: suspended from the ceiling with monofilament or floating in front of the wall, defying gravity. He is interested in the duality of this medium - its physical lightness versus its appearance of weight - a paradox that attracts the viewer's attention and broadens his or her perception.
Lives and works between Mexico City and New York. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art and a BA from Kenyon College, with an emphasis in Women's and Gender Studies. Her work has been exhibited internationally and published in media such as The New York Times and Hyperallergic, and has been recognized by institutions such as the Rauschenberg Foundation, Yaddo and the Joan Mitchell Foundation. Since 2014, she co-directs Ortega y Gasset Projects, a non-profit gallery in Brooklyn dedicated to supporting artists from marginalized communities, with curatorial projects featured in Art in America and Artnet.
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Over the last twenty years, Eleanna Anagnos has conducted extensive research into the intersections and thresholds between painting, sculpture, and drawing. Her aim is to produce a body of work that resists categorization and cannot be unequivocally experienced as belonging to any one of these three mediums. Her practice explores themes such as primal memory, symbol-making, touch, ritual, color, and the formation of meaning.
Since 2017, paper pulp has become the material that has most effectively allowed her to expand this investigation, opening up a broad field of creation. Her approach to working with paper is rooted in a process-oriented, experimental practice that treats pulp as a tactile medium, used to create a sense of intimacy. This process leads to works that are haptic, tactile, and introspective.
Anagnos creates three-dimensional experiences in which pieces may hang from the ceiling on monofilament, appearing to be suspended in space, or mounted on the wall in ways that make them seem to float. Paper pulp is an exceptionally dynamic material; however, what fascinates her most is the duality between its actual lightness and its perceived weight. These deceptive or paradoxical qualities function as a way to draw the viewer in and expand their awareness.
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Solo Exhibitions
2023 –Feria Material Vol. 9, solo booth with High Noon, CDMX.
2022 – Fever Logic, High Noon, New York, NY (catalog).
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Eleanna Anagnos & Alexis Granwell, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College, curated by Tally De Orellana, Old Westbury, NY.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2022 – Modular Mosaic, Underdonk, co-organized by Elisa Soliven & Leonora Loeb, Brooklyn, NY.
2021 – Studio Archive Project, Eric Hibit Presents!, Brooklyn, NY.
2020
– Monaco, Bite the Hand, St. Louis, MO.
– PDF1:Distance, curated by Alex Paik, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY.
– Flat File: Year Seven, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY.
– Shelter/ Place, High Noon Gallery, New York, NY.
SELECTED PRIVATES COLLECTIONS
– Tom and Alice Tisch, New York, NY.
– Kenyon College, Gambier, OH.
– Lake Forest High School, Lake Forest, IL.
– The Silent Wolf, LLC, Lake Forest, IL.
– Toasted Head Wines, San Francisco, CA.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022
– Krieger, Fawn, “Rock, Paper, Scissors”, BOMB Magazine, March, 2022.
– Burrns, Emily, Feature: Eleanna Anagnos, Maake Magazine, February, 2022.