ELENA SOTERAKIS

ELENA SOTERAKIS

EDUCATION

2004  Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of Visual Arts, New York, New    York

2008  New York Foundation For the Arts, Professional Practice Program, Huntington, New York

2006  Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York

2005   Charles Cecil Studio, Florence Italy

2003  School of Visual Arts, Study Abroad Program in Florence, Italy 

1998  Parsons School Of Design, Study Abroad Program in Paris, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Abandoned Landscapes, Syosset Public Library, NY

2007 Silent Beauty, Huntington Library Gallery, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009-2010 Dialogue of Art: Let's See, WNYC's The Greene Space, New York, New York

2009 Krasdale Galleries, White Plains, New York

2009 Beat the Devil Out of It, Gallery Bar, New York, New York

2009 Spring Art Auction Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2009 Junior and Scholarship Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY

2009 Opera Night Art Exhibition, Northport, New York

2008 In Vitro Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008 Something Old, Something New, Salmagundi, New York, NY

2008 Emerging Artist Market, Agni Gallery, New York, NY

2008 M.A.R.K. Artist Presentations, Exit Art, New York, NY

2008 Community Word Project's 8th Annual Benefit, National Arts Club, NY

2008  Virtual Creativity, Online Exhibition, The Artists Objective

2007 Concepts of Landscape, Main Street Petite Gallery, Huntington, New York, NY

2007  Rejuvenation of Hope, La Vuelta Café, Long Island City,  NY

2007 Street Haven at the Crossroads Charity Auction, Toronto, Canada

2006 Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Holiday Program, New York, NY 

2006 Krasdale Galleries, White Plains, New York

AWARDS

2009 Winner of W.N.Y.C.'s The Greene Space Competition 

2009 Al Barker Award For Outstanding Work, Salmagundi Club, New York

2008 Frank Dumond Award for Outstanding Work, Salmagundi Club, New York

2008 New York Foundation for the Arts, M.A.R.K. Program

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Mr. & Mrs. Eric and Lisa Ober, New York, New York

Mr. Joseph Macari, Mattituck, New York

Ms. Parisa  Golestaneh, New York, New York

Ms. Elena M. Paul, New York, New York

Mr. Mauricio Fernandez, Old Brookville, New York

Mr. & Mrs. Joel Maxwell, Forest Hills, New York

Mrs. Sally Allegretti, Muttintown, New York

Ms. Marisa Macari, Oxford, United Kingdom

Mrs. Marta Castro, Surfside, Florida

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Livanos, Roslyn,  New York

Mr. Charles Guckenberger, Huntington, New York

Mr. & Mrs. Stephan Cybek, Astoria, New York

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Loughrane, Huntington, New York

Mr. George A. Defina & David S. Kanal, Woodstock, Vermont

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Arcon Corporation- Crown Enterprises, Great Neck, NY

Coran Ober P.C., Flushing, NY

The New York Times, New York, New York

Newsday, Long Island, New York

The Times Huntington, New York

Arts Cultural News, Huntington, NY

Great Neck Record, NY

Port Washington News, NY

Glen Cove Record Pilot, NY

Huntington News, Huntington, NY

BIOGRAPHY

 I'm a New York based artist and received my BFA from the School of Visual Arts, in New York City and studied paintings in Paris, France, and Florence, Italy. Upon graduation I returned to Italy, for a year, to further pursue my painting, where I adopted Renaissance Painting techniques into my work, including the “sight size method” and glazing techniques. I paint with oil on white mahogany wood panels, beginning with an umber under -painting, building layer upon layer of color glazes, creating the illusion of light.

Afflicted with wander lust, I created a body of work documenting my travels abroad in cities such as, Venice, Rome, Brussels, and Amsterdam. Upon returning to the United States, I became increasingly fascinated with the Southwest, traveling to New Mexico, creating an entirely new series of landscape paintings, unlike any of the work I  painted before. Currently I have been focusing on my new passion for industrial urban landscapes and have been painting scenes with on an emphasis on Queens and Brooklyn.