Antonakos: 2 neons, 12 drawings

The Drawing Room
East Hampton, New York
January 12 -- March 3, 2013

Fragment of A Circle # 32, November 27, 1976,
Colored Pencil on paper
14" x 11"
Photograph: Jeffrey Sturges, NY

"Mail Art"

Curated by Erik Verhagen
Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris
February 1 -- May 5, 2013

During an Artist-in-Residency in Fresno, California in 1971, Antonakos wrote to nearly 100 friends in New York and elsewhere, asking each to "send me something in a package for a project I am doing . . . ." They did, and he hung them in the 1972 "California Show" -- unopened. The "Package Project" was exhibited again the Rose Art Museum's "Antonakos: Time Boxes 2000" and in the artist's 2007-2008 Retrospective at the Pireaos Benaki Museum in Athens.

"Package Project" 1971
Ink on paper and mixed media
Various sizes
Photograph: Greg Heins, Boston

"Stephen Antonakos: Pillows -- 1962-1963"

Lori Bookstein Fine Art, 138 10th Ave., NY
February 14 -- March 16

Each assemblage in this distinct, historic body of wall works
and drawings defines a moment with intense psycho-physical
reverberations.

Untitled Pillow, 1963
Mixed Media
30" x 17 5/8" x 9"
Photo by Jeffrey Sturges, NY

"Stephen Antonakos: Gold Works and 1977 Neon Wall"
Konrad Fischer Galerie Berlin
March 1 -- April 20

This is the first European exhibition to feature the recent work of gold-leaf
on mylar and Tyvek sheets that have been cut or crumpled. Both the single
sheets and the series extend the artist's investigations of planar and three-
dimensional space and light.

"Land #5" 2011 Gold leaf on mylar, with cuts
30" x 22"
Photo by Jeffrey Sturges, NY

"Ruby Neon Incomplete Circles
on a Light Blue Wall" 1977
Neon, paint, wall
9' x 24'
Photo by John Ferrari, NY

"DYNAMO. A century of light and movement in art. 1913 -- 2013"
The Grand Palais, Paris
April 8 -- July 22

This ambitious survey of 100 years of light and kinetic art will feature Antonakos's "Hanging Neon" from 1965. This powerful sculpture is one of the first in which the artist placed the bare neon tubes in geometric patterns in the open three-dimensional space that is occupied by viewers themselves.

"Hanging Neon"
Neon, aluminum, paint
6' x 3' 8" x 21

"The Pop Object": The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art"
Acquavella Galleries, 18 East 79th St., NY
April 10 -- May 24

One of the best-known and evocative works from the Pillows series has three round red lights that can be turned on and off with chain-pulls.

Untitled Pillow (March 26, 1963)
Mixed media, 29" x 23" x 10"
Photo by Jeffrey Sturges, NY

"The National Academy Annual Exhibition: 2013"
The National Academy Museum
1083 Fifth Avenue, NY
January 30 -- May 5

One of the newest of Antonakos's recent series of neon Panels with distinct geometric planes with white or metal- leaf surfaces, "Archangels Michael and Gabriel" manifests a certain Byzantine rigor. Its surrounding aura of colored light responds to its physcial and spatial architectural site in many ways.

"Archangels Michael and Gabriel" 2012
Gold leaf & aluminum leaf on Versacel, neon
4' x 3' x 5 1/2"
Photo by Jeffrey Sturges, NY

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

NEON. LA MATERIA LUMINOSA DELL'ARTE
MACRO, TERRAZZA, ROME
Summer 2012

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

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

"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