PANOS EVANGELOPOULOS
ANNE ELISABETH HOGH
The Byzantine heritage of Panos Evangelopoulos and the modern art he encountered during child­hood sojourns in Europe coexist in his sensibilities. He revels in every painter’s right to conceive “his or her own alphabet from A to Z.” He allows the concrete and the abstract to mingle freely. He believes in dia­lectic, in the play of opposites, and projects this onto canvas. He de­scribes the light of his native Greece as “a big explosion...too bright, too violent,” and yet his paintings are drenched in it. His backgrounds are often composed of tesserae of col-or—or even text—on top of which
“An abstract painting is not what you see,” says Anne Elisabeth Hogh, “it is what it makes you feel.” She also speaks of the necessity of ex­pression, the desire, the obses­sion. A childhood spent on the coast of Denmark revealed to Hogh the ever-changing na­ture of light, and she brings this afflatus to every work she creates. She expresses herself in layers of acrylic, and her art roils and shimmers with a pri-
Painting 001
Acrylic on Canvas 36”x 30”
Crucifixion 2
Oil on Canvas 88”x 48”
mal urgency that borders on aggression. But each viewing opens itself up for renewed contact. “Let the paintings lead you, and then look again,” she instructs. “The light changes, and suddenly you see something else.”
Hogh’s canvases are suspended from their frames by metal lacings, allowing the viewer to approach each piece as an inter­nal phenomenon suspended outside the self. And Hogh means for each painting to stake for itself a place outside of past and future—capturing a present moment, the time and place where life is. Website: http://www.americanindustrialart.com
line-drawn figures stand in relief, conveying a dynamism whose source is hard to pin down but nonetheless apparent. He strives to give a life to his subjects that they acquire outside the paregon and in the mind and soul of the viewer.
Evangelopoulos graduated with honors from Aristotelio Uni­versity. His education and background enable him to instruct stu­dents in everything from painting and color theory to gilding and metalwork.
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