Calliope Pavlides (b.1998) is a greek artist based in Los Angeles, California. She received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design were she was awarded the Florence Leif Award for Excellence. She has had solo exhibitions in New York (Harkawik) and Los Angeles (Monte Vista Projects) and in Athens, within the scope of Art Athina 2022.
Her work shifts between drawing, painting and woodblock printmaking. Utilizing the possibilities of mark making to create visual and narrative hierarchies. Pavlides guides us within her symbolic world of natural phenomena and climate disaster, surveilled spectacles and deceptive miracles, happenstance, and a shapeshifting witness. Like plant clippings propagating new roots, Pavlides dislodges myopic cultural understandings by re rooting them and sometimes quite literally putting them under the magnifying glass. Her tendency to dissect moments and environments, classifying properties and the way light splits relates to a restorative process from life’s most recent curveballs.
