Gorgeous Discontent
Come experience the Gorgeous Discontent exhibition by Lydia Panas at the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts .
Gorgeous Discontent Show Description
Come experience the Gorgeous Discontent exhibition by Lydia Panas at the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts.
The flowers in these still-life photographs draw on the formal qualities of the Dutch Golden Age. Gathered from my garden, dahlias and other blossoms are suspended against dark backgrounds. They mingle throughout the scenes, floating, falling, and weaving in various stages of bloom, hovering between growth and decline, darkness and light. Reflecting on time beauty, and decay, I hope that the photographs will invite viewers to approach them with a sense of curiosity and self-reflection.
About the Artist
Lydia Panas is a visual artist working with photography and video. A first-generation American, she was raised between Greece and the United States. Panas’ work looks at identity and what lies below the surface, investigating questions of who we are and what we want to become. Her work is made in the fields, forests, and studio of her family farm in Pennsylvania. The connection she feels to this land is the foundation of her work.
Panas’ work has been exhibited, both in the US and internationally, in places such as at the Brooklyn Museum, Michener Art Museum, and Zendai MoMA Shanghai, and more. Her work has appeared in the The New Yorker, the New York Times, Popular Photography, amongst others. Panas has received numerous awards and honors, including the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize Exhibit, she has won first place at London Calling, and was a solo exhibition winner at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts.
Panas has degrees from Boston College, the School of Visual Arts, and New York University. She is the recipient of a Whitney Museum Independent Study Fellowship and a CFEVA Fellowship.
