Athena Petra Tasiopoulos

Athena Petra Tasiopoulos is a mixed media encaustic and collage artist. Originally from Pennsylvania, she currently resides in central Vermont and is represented by Soapbox Arts gallery in Burlington, VT. Her work is collected internationally and has been featured in publications such as ELLE Magazine (USA and Japan), Frankie Magazine (Australia), Collage by Women: 50 Essential Contemporary Artists by Rebeka Elizegi (published by Promopress, Spain).

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ABOUT / Portraiture & Figurative Works:

Athena describes herself as a collector of second hand images – primarily ‘cabinet card’ portrait photography from the late 19th - early 20th C.

"My imagination is continuously lured by the mystery of found photographs – 'instant relatives' discarded and forgotten in antique stores. It is as if these souls exist in an interesting sort of limbo – simultaneously trapped yet saved within the photograph. I find myself feeling compassion for them. By re-inventing the portrait, I aim to disjoint my subjects from an antiquated identity, allowing them to transcend the constraints of time and place."

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ABOUT / Abstract Encaustic Collages:

"I’m interested in our mental and emotional blueprints. The push and pull of interconnectedness. T...

Three Stones Gallery: "Inner Sojourns"; Concord, Massachusetts, USA (2025)

FUTURE FAIR: NYC Art Week hosted by Soapbox Arts Gallery; Chelsea, New York City, New York, USA (2025)

The Bryan Fine Art Gallery: "New Visions" Exhibit; Stowe, Vermont, USA (2025)

SCOPE Art Show: Miami Art Week hosted by Soapbox Arts; Miami, Florida, USA (2024)

Soapbox Arts: "Refrain" Exhibit; Burlington, Vermont, USA (2024)

Daemen University: "Eclectic" Exhibit; Buffalo, New York, USA (2023)

The Kent Museum: "Traces" Exhibit; Calais, Vermont, USA (2023)

Museo José Carlos Mariátegui: "KRAFTSTROM B22: II International Art Collage Peru"; Group Exhibition Curated by the Colorbox Group; Lima, Peru (2022)

Cusco Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art: "KRAFTSTROM B22: II International Art Collage Peru"; Group Exhibition Curated by the Colorbox Group; Cusco, Peru (2022)

Sala Central de Exposiciones del “Consell de Formentera”; Collage by Women Book Exhibition Curated by
Rebeka Elizegi; Formentera, Balearic Islands, Spain (2022)

Soapbox Arts: "INNER SPACES"; Burlington, Vermont, USA (2022)

Tubac Center of the Arts: "Metamorphosis" Exhibit; Tubac, Arizona, USA (2021)

Poker Flats Gallery: "Feelings are Facts" Exhibit; Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA (2021)...