Athena Petra Tasiopoulos
is a mixed media collage artist and fine art photographer based in central vermont. Originally from Pennsylvania, Athena studied photography at the Art Institute of Philadelphia where she graduated at the top of her class in 2008.
Her work aims to illustrate the beauty, fragility, and truth of the present moment; the meditative poetry that can be found in the quiet and mundane. Tasiopoulos Works with recycled and found vintage papers encased beneath a layer of beeswax, gravitating toward soft, muted colors — warmed and stained by time. Repetitive patterns and primitive marks carved and scraped into the surface of the wax speak to the imperfections of the human hand and the vulnerability of materiality. a meditation on transience, transformation, and the beauty of imperfection, her practice is An embrace of what is — as it is.
