2024 Review
Photo Credit: Karl Jones aka Karl Marks
2024 Highlight: Oklahoma
Why Oklahoma?
During my last years of high school in Athens, Greece I had the good fortune of participating in the production of the "Oklahoma!" musical at Athens College, the US endowed Boys High School and my father’s Alma Mater. It was a spectacular production with a live student band. I delighted in the whole experience and Oklahoma was branded on me, as it turns out, for life.
When I graduated from Columbia Journalism in 1967 I made New York my home. Last year, I came across Ken Burns’ American Buffalo. My jaw dropped at the man-made destruction orchestrated in the central US, with the fate of the Native American tribes and the Buffalo at its center. I knew nothing about it!! My heart ached and I started investigating and painting a series of Buffaloes as a tribute to their majesty and the cruel human attempt to exterminate it thereby also causing the first man made ecological disaster with the advent of the dust bowl.
Recently, during a conversation with a friend at a reception at Columbia, I mentioned my obsession with the Buffalo and she said: “If you want to see the Buffalo you should go to Oklahoma.” OKLAHOMA! My whole being came alive upon the mention of Oklahoma. That one word became the nexus of my 16 year old innocent self square dancing and singing on stage and my recent knowledge of what actually happened there, opening a new chapter in my life’s investigations.
Explore the Bison Bison Buffalo Blues series.
"Delalis/The Town Crier" (2014) ongoing group exhibition Women, Together,
National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, ΕΜΣΤ permanent collection.
"Delalis/The Town Crier" (2014) participation in the Talks & Crafts program at ΕΜΣΤ.
Installation view of "Delalis/The Town Crier" (2014) at Women, Together
Partial installation view of Alex Mylona: Fulfillment
"EF/EM" (1986) and "The Executioner" (1986) in “Herstories” Photographic Practices, 1974-2024 at MOMus Museum of Photography
Thessaloniki [May 17, 2024 - September 15, 2024]
Installation shot of "EF/EM" (1986) and "The Executioner" (1986) in “Herstories” Photographic Practices, 1974-2024 at MOMus Museum of Photography.
"A goat from Vermont” (2024) in The goat group exhibition curated by Giannis Bolis at the “MALI VENI” estate, Markopoulo, Attica, Athens [1st July - 30th September 2024]
"A goat from Vermont” (2024)
Small Buffalo works printed on aluminum at Galerie Françoise Heitsch booth
ArtAthina 2024 [19-23 September 2024]
"SeaMonster II" (2024) ArtAthina video program curated by Panos Gianikopoulos [19-23 September 2024]
Installation view of "SeaMonster II" (2024) at ArtAthina
Installation view of Bison Bison Buffalo Blues at Galerie Françoise Heitsch
Fire in the Lake
ERT Radio - Kosmos - Interview with Thalia Karamolengou
The Experimental Film Festival Podcast - Interview with Kenneth Hess
Several performative video works featured at Lucid (PerformVu) platform
By Panos Balomenos
Portrait of Eleni Mylonas in Panos Blomenos' solo exhibition "Cults of Personality" at SIC Athens.
By Chloe Akrithaki