Artist Name: Johniene Papandreas

Johniene Papandreas merges the art of the classical masters with the intensity of the cinematic close-up in large-scale paintings that are at once overtly powerful and intensely intimate. She selects her models from past masterpieces lifting them free of their historical context to reveal glimpses into personality and emotions sensed rather than seen. “It’s those micro-expressions…the expressions between expressions and what you see when you are not looking that intrigues me.”

The paintings are created entirely by brush on sized, heavyweight muslin in casein, a paint derived from milk or soy protein. The paint is applied in thin layers, building visual depth without thickness of paint, and the result is a soft, luminous quality that appears to glow from within even in the dimmest of light.

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Johniene Papandreas

Johniene Papandreas

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