1a.nightlblsm4mse1r - Print 15'' x 20'' For Greek, New York-based artist Hariclia Michailidou, the world resembles infinitely divisible and multiplying formations of spheres, minute and massive forms in kaleidoscopic colors that fly apart and congeal throughout her mesmerizing prints. After works that dwelled on darker and more ambiguous imagery, Michailidou has found an inexhaustible source of optimism and possibility in these billowing shapes. They appear alternately microscopic, like primordial atoms, and elsewhere astronomically massive, sprawling galaxies flying across unknowable distances. The undeniable structural quality of these hypnotic, rounded forms owes much to the years Michailidou spent working as an architect. Each composition is literally constructed with a computer using her previous watercolors as building blocks.

Constantly re-shaping and reusing old materials to create visionary new worlds, her method mimics the cyclical nature of the universe she portrays. In these hyper-kinetic snapshots of worlds with unknowable dimensions and depths, the level of activity and movement is infectious and exciting.

Disks of neon colors in every size and palette swirl and shimmer across Michailidou’s abstract, amorphous backdrops. She achieves a great variety of emotive effects by varying the density, proximity, direction and apparent velocity of her circular building blocks: in places the landscape seems frantic, elsewhere calm and Zen, sometimes epic and sometimes intimate. Throughout, Hariclia Michailidou creates magnificent worlds that offer infinite possibilities.

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