Cefalonia
Organization
Cefalonia is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing international contemporary art to the Pacific Northwest through site-specific projects. Taking its name from the birthplace of Juan de Fuca (b. 1536 as Ioannis Phokas on the Ioanian island of Kefalonia), Cefalonia is committed to working with artists and locales that reveal issues of ecology and the socio-political climate of our time while promoting public discourse through the presentation of compelling art.
Cefalonia
Organization
Cefalonia is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing international contemporary art to the Pacific Northwest through site-specific projects. Taking its name from the birthplace of Juan de Fuca (b. 1536 as Ioannis Phokas on the Ioanian island of Kefalonia), Cefalonia is committed to working with artists and locales that reveal issues of ecology and the socio-political climate of our time while promoting public discourse through the presentation of compelling art.
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Authored Articles
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Hear You AthensPhotobook PublicationHear You Athens is a series of 50 photographs and two letters, a correspondence between two friends, Georges Salameh and Alexandros Mistriotis. Their conversation, over the years, is summarized in this book. (more…)
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Flavio-ShiróA DocumentaryFlavio-Shiró is a cult artist, a painter’s painter. His work defies categorization or association with any artistic group or movement. For more than six decades, his work has simply been modern. (more…)
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Wallace StevensPoetMore than any other modern poet, Wallace Stevens was concerned with the transformative power of the imagination. (more…)
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100 Days into UkraineARTPIL / Prescription .128This past Friday marked the 100th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Not counting the continuing conflict which began in 2014, this latest invasion starting earlier this year sees not a clear end. (more…)
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Lu GuangPhotographerLu Guang was born in 1961, in Zhejiang Province, China. He has been passionate about photography since he held a camera for the first time, in 1980 when he was a factory worker in his hometown in Yongkang County. (more…)
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Joseph BeuysArtistJoseph Beuys was born in 1921, in Krefeld, Germany. During his school years in Kleve, Beuys was exposed to the work of Achilles Moortgat, whose studio he often visited, and was inspired by the sculptures of Wilhelm Lehmbruck. (more…)
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Ibrahim Mahama: Garden of ScarsNov 5, 2022 – Mar 19, 2023Ibrahim Mahama created a new, space-filling installation especially for Amsterdam’s oldest building. Walk through the centuries-old church building and discover the shared history of ancient places connected by trade networks (more…)
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Bob Thompson: This House Is MineOct 11, 2022 – Jan 8, 2023Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine offers a rich reconsideration of a visionary African American painter and borrows its name from a diminutive but exquisite painting created by the artist in 1960. (more…)
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Angela Davis JohnsonArtistAngela Davis Johnson creates paintings, public art installations, and ritual performances to examine the technologies of black people, in particular black women/femme. (more…)
