Neon: Who's afraid of red yellow and blue?
a group exhibition at the Maison rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
February — May 2012

"Arimathea" 2001
Gold leaf on wood, various color neons
48"h x 48"w x 6"
Photography: D. James Dee

"GOLD"
a group exhibition at the Belvedere, Vienna
March — June 2012

"Red Incomplete Neon Square" 1975
Red Neon
36" x 36"
Photography: Greg Heins

"STEPHEN ANTONAKOS: TESSERES"
SAVANNAH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
OCTOBER 28, 2011 — MARCH 4, 2012

This is one of the exhibitions celebrating the opening of SCAD's stunning new Museum of Art, by Savannah architectural firm Sotttile and Sottile. The four square Panels are placed in the four glass showcases that project from the new museum's facade, allowing the Panels' changing aspects from daylight to nighttime to be fully appreciated. Tesseras is the Greek word for four.

Left to right:"St. Anthony 1996, For John Climacus" 1999, "He Was Lost and Is Found" 2001, and "Tell No One" 2001.

Photography: D. James Dee, New York

"Stephen Antonakos: The Search"
Eleaourgio, Eleusina, Greece
September 1 — October 31, 2011

Antonakos has chosen almost 30 art locations within this former industrial site. The entire area is one experience that viewers may move through -- a unity of structures, spaces, and the neon installations. "The Search" is the exhibition component of the city of Eleusina's annual Aeschylus Festival. It is open to the public from 9 PM to midnight throughout the two months.

To walk through the exhibition, click on THE SEARCH on the menu above.

Photography: Panos Kokkinias, Athens

GREEK AMERICA FOUNDATION LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Gabby Awards, Ellis Island, New York, Saturday June 4, 2011

This award was presented by Helen C. Evans,
Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ART LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD — SCULPTURE
National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Avenue, New York, May 19, 2011

This award was presented by Brett Littman, Executive Director, The Drawing Center, New York

SPACES
May 25 — June 25, 2011

Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 138 10th Ave., NYC

Works of various media and from different periods in this exhibition will highlight Antonakos's central concerns with space — space within the work of art and the space activated by the art, which is occupied also by the viewer.

Model for "Meditation Space" 1998-2002
Paint, wood, plexiglas, 18" x 14" x 14"

Photograph: D. James Dee, New York

"See the Light"
May 20 — October 23, 2011

Curated by Jonathan Thompson
Espace Louis Vuitton, Hong Kong

"And Looking Up" 2009
Gold leaf on MDF, neon, 30" x 24"

"Channa Horwitz, Carl Andre, Stephen Antonakos:
Works on Paper"
April 9 — June 11, 2011

Organized by Daniel Marzona
Cream Contemporary, Berlin

Untitled drawing (Ju #2) 1977
India ink on French vellum, 19" x 14"

"Transformation" 2011

This permanent Public Work spans the facade of the fine new ArtsQuest building on the site of the revitalized historic Bethlehem Steel Works in Bethlehem, PA. At the left, the sculpture extends into the space itself.

Painted metal, neon
ArtsQuest
Bethlehem, PA

Photograph: Alexander C. Marsh, New York

"ENTER"
February 2011

This new sculpture is installed in the offices of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

The work is a formal response to the proportions and arrangement of the walls and spaces of this area and to the horizontality of its modernist architecture overall. During the day and at night, and from various distances, partial views of "ENTER" can be seen through the various windows.

"Enter" February 2011
27'h x 5"w x 3'd
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens

Photograph: Stamatis Schizakis, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

"ALPHAVITOS" RELIEF
February 2011

This silver Relief from the "Alphavitos" series of the late 1980s has entered the collection of the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, as a gift honoring the memory of its great director Dr. Dimitrios Konstantios.

Photograph: Jeffrey Sturges, New York

"PHAROS"

February 2011This new 10' x 5' x 5' column stands outside the new Onassis Cultural Center on Syngrou Avenue in Athens. It was made specifically for this site for the exhibition "Polyglossia" — Greek artists of the diaspora, March 14 - June 30. "Pharos" is the Greek word for lighthouse.

Photographs: Rebecca Konstantopoulou & Fanis Vlastaras, Athens, 2011

DRAWN/TAPED/BURNED: ABSTRACTION ON PAPER
January 23 - May 1, 2011

A Kramarsky Collection Selections Exhibition
Curated by Ellen J. Keiter
Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester County, NY.

Untitled drawing (A-92-95) 1995
Multicolor pencil on vellum, 5" x 5"

Photograph: Jeffrey Sturges, New York

DRAWING IN PROGRESS
November 26 , 2010 — March 20, 2011
Middleborough Museum of Modern Art, UK

In the late 1960s through the early 1970s, Antonakos produced a continuous group of these "proposal" drawings for works in neon. These vivid demonstrations document the range of his thinking — from delicate to monumental and from work on pedestals to "Rooms" and installations of public scale.

Six are in this group show of about 40 post-war American drawings now in the collection of Britain's Middleborough Museum of Modern Art. The collection was assembled in partnership with The Drawing Center in New York.

"Four Side Neon"
April 13, 1968
Pencil and colored pencil, and fixative on paper, 14" x 22"

Photograph: Jeri Coppola, New York

"LISTEN"

The incomplete square is one of Antonakos's most classic forms. Placed outdoors on the rough stone wall in the garden of Spondi Restaurant in Athens, this work's daytime aspect shows a distinctively different aspect at night. This photograph was taken in the evening.

"Listen" 2009
Neon on painted metal raceway, 79" x 79"

Photograph: John Boone, Brooklyn

VOGEL COLLECTION DISTRIBUTION
Continuing

As part of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection's "50 Works for 50 States" program, Antonakos works are now entering museums in Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, and Washington -- in addition to the works that will remain in the collection of the National Gallery in Washington D. C.

Photograph: D. James Dee, New York