Artist & Photographer.

 

I received my Bachelor of Art degree from Empire State University in 2024, with a concentration in Studio Art Practice.

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My travels to various parts of the Northeast, as well as other countries--Greece, Mexico, and Peru--as well as living in New York, have provided me with wondrous templates and ideas with which to expand my creativity.  In 2025, I will be visiting the Netherlands, Germany France, and Belgium.

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I have had the honor to participate in various exhibitions through the years, both online and in-person:

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• “Shadowscapes”, Online Exhibition – Photo Gallery, Boston, MA                      April, 2025

• “Best of Me”, Online Exhibition and Times Square Billboard, NYC                   Oct 1-31, 2024

• “Still Life”, Virtual Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA                                               Feb 1-29, 2024

• “Black, White, or Gray, 2024”, Virtual Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA                Jan 4-26, 2024

• “FlashPoint, 2023” Virtual Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA                                   Nov2-25, 2023

• “Abstract – 2023” Virtual Exhibition, Terravarna                                                  Jun-July, 2023

• “Storytellers 2023” In_Person Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA                               Oct 5-28, 2023

• “Open Theme, 2023” In-Person Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA                             July 6-29, 2023

• “BRILLIANCE” Virtual Exhibition, ArtFluent, Boston, MA                               April, 2023

• “Botanical Art”, Virtual Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA                                        Jan 5-28, 2023

• “Fall Colors” In-Person Exhibition, Watersmeet, MI                                             Sept 2-23, 2022

• “Outside In, Upside Down” In-Person Exhibition, Cape Cod, MA                      July 22-Sep 16, 2022

• “Women in Art” Online Exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA                                       July 7-30, 2022

• “Ellarslie Open 39” In-Person Exhibition, Trenton Museum, NJ                          June 25-Oct 2, 2022

• “Monochromatic” – O’Hanlon Center Virtual Exhibition                                    Feb 14-April 9, 2022

• “Captured (Photography) 2022 – Virtual Exhibition                                             Feb 9-26, 2022

• “Botanical Art & Illustration” – Virtual Exhibition Laguna Beach, CA               Dec 2 – Dec 31, 2021

• “Digital Art, Assemblage or Collage” – Laguna Beach, CA                                   Nov 6-27, 2021

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Many of my photographs can be found on Behance. (behance.net/aphroditevairaktaris)

 

Art gave me an outlet with which to help cope with the loss of my husband.  It started as an escape from grief but later transformed into a channel with which to explore my quest for self-awareness, to find my individuality which somehow got lost through the years.

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My pieces are mostly representational, yet I added a sprinkle of abstract pieces in my portfolio.  Many of my representational pieces appear to possess similar methods to the works of David Caspar Friedrich, Marc Chagall, Mark Klett, and Gordon Matta-Clark.  This parallelism gives me permission to continue creating similarly to these great artists:  to view the mystical reality of life.  My abstracts, on the contrary, hint at my playful side.  I love to experiment with various tones and color mixes, fluid and acrylic blends, various types of paper.  I create textures with rollers, sponges, molding paste, and gesso, to name a few.  Abstraction permits me to escape.

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My personal objective as an artist is to create a visual welcome mat that will invite the audience to visit me, not only as an artist, but as an individual.  If successful, I will have proven to myself that I have reached one of my most important goals as an artist.  I write a personal message behind the artwork I sell.  This hopefully can open a silent conversation between me and the one whom I have befriended through my piece.

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Through my photography, I capture landscapes,  cityscapes, and people in action.  I apply them into the pieces I create.  

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I look forward to the future, to what imagery and beauty await me with my camera or in plein air mode...because there is always something or someone that will ignite my desire to create.

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