Douglas Maxwell, independent curator, art critic and assistant professor of arts at New York University, will join Venieri, the well-known Greek American multimedia artist, to discuss her work and "See No Evil," her installations of color photographs.
Born in Athens into a family of architects, Lydia Venieri studied in Paris. In 1987 for the tenth anniversary of the Pompidou Center, she was invited to exhibit an installation of forty sculptures which represented a court of miracles with allegorical scenes. Since then her work has been shown in many exhibitions through out Europe. In 1999 she settled in New York where her art moved into a new domain. In 2002 she completed the first part of her trilogy, Hibernation followed by For Ever After, The Last Conflict, and War Games which were exhibited in New York, Paris and Athens. In 2001 she won the Medal for Sculpture by the Academie Francais de Paris for sculpture, and in 2004 she was commissioned by the Athens Olympic Committee to create two large paintings.
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