May 1st - May 8th, 2021

Monte Vista Projects is pleased to announce Calliope Pavlides’ inaugural solo show, Seasons of Unravelling. The exhibition will be open by appointment from May 1st to May 8th, 2021.

Seasons of Unravelling features Calliope Pavlides’ latest body of work that formed during a challenging year. With her series of paintings starring embodied natural disasters, Pavlides marks time by creating a metaphor for the pandemic as a personal apocalypse. Digesting her experience through a set of dark tales on canvas enables her to dream of a sunnier reality. The title refers to “unravelling” as the motion of spiralling out of control, as well as the idealistic anticipation for a disentangled world. Using line as a form of unravelling, her brushwork spins, loops, and breathes, in a kind of reckless abandonment to motion. Despite the dark undertones of the subject matter, Pavlides’ mark-making and narrative playfulness bring a lightness to these works. At times, she takes on a child’s perspective, assigning human features to a spring breeze and repeatedly filling in the cracks with rainbows. The show includes 9 paintings on canvas and 9 works on paper.

Calliope Pavlides is a Greek artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. She is a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where she received her BFA in Painting in 2020 and was awarded the Florence Leif award of excellence. This is her inaugural solo show, a culmination of her personal practice in combination to a sustainable sculpture residency alongside Monte Vista Projects co-director Emily Blythe Jones.