adrift
Exhibition dates: March 3-7, 2025
Closing reception: Thursday, March 6th, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
manspreading, stoneware, underglaze, 2024
both, and (limp wrists), stoneware, underglaze, 2024
καλή μου ναυτης (my dear sailor), earthenware, oil paint, 2024
Artist Statement
Raised by immigrant parents under pious Orthodoxy, I spent the majority of my life trying to be as small as possible. The need to defend my queerness became an obstacle to celebrating my heritage and culture. Constrained by forced binaries and the politicization of queer bodies, I was always too feminine or too masculine, too gay or too straight, too Greek or too American.
The use of nautical imagery serves as a metaphor for feeling lost between binaries, seeking a safe shore. It recalls my childhood by the Mediterranean Sea, as a soft queer kid trying to relish in the fluidity of identity despite the rigorous gender roles I was repressed by. These representations of the queer body take up space as a form of resistance and affirmation of the sacredness of queer identity, embracing openness, complexity, and defiance.
adrift invites viewers to engage with masculinity as a spectrum — one that is shaped by the personal, the emotional, and the embodied. My work imagines how gender, sexuality, and culture can exist with one another, and celebrates the immense spectrum of love, grief, and belonging within the body.