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Eleanna AnagnosVisit Eleanna's work at: Eleanna Anagnos Eleanna Anagnos describes her painting process as an ongoing dialogue between herself and the canvas. Her vision lies in the synthesis of accumulated marks and her marks, in concert, bear evidence of the events that fill our own lives: not just the noticeable ones, but also the moments sometimes beneath notice—those too small to see, even though daily life is suffused with them. Anagnos is not interested in the conventional beginning/middle/end narrative. Instead, her work is born without the notion of conclusion. Through a deep connection to her own process—by building up and breaking down, incorporating and wiping away, flipping the canvas, working more intuitively in one session and more formally in the next—Anagnos focuses on creating a system of exchange between personal history, mood, and the anxiety of a never-still mind and the formulations (volume, variation, repetition, touch, and color) of drawing and painting. To Anagnos, energy is what counts. Her process imbues her paintings with a pulse, a rhythm that endures long after the artist decides her content can stand alone. She gestures with the sturdiness of architecture, thereby holding together the elements of disorder. In relinquishing control of the work, Anagnos finds that meaning reveals itself. Her paintings breathe and exist as living proof of the abundant information, feeling, and physicality so intimately encoded in the process and therefore, in the raw paint itself. A Greek-American Chicago native, Eleanna Makris Anagnos received her MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art and her BA, with distinction, from Kenyon College. She has exhibited in Chicago at the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center and, through GenArts, at Chrysler PT events and has shown in solo and group exhibitions in Manhattan, Philadelphia, Georgia, and Rome, Italy. Living in Italy and Greece and time spent in India, have significantly informed her work. Currently, Anagnos lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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