On the Other Side consists of a selection of works created by Eozen Agopian during her six-month residency at the ArtCake, which are shown alongside earlier works. Agopian incorporates various techniques of drawing, painting, sewing and weaving, creating visual parallels between rational and cosmological worlds through constructing and deconstructing, layering and erasing, scraping and marking, unravelling and reconnecting.
Eozen Agopian is an artist of Armenian descent born in Athens, Greece. She has received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., (1993), Bachelor of Fine Arts, (magna cum laude) from Hunter College, N.Y., N.Y., (1989), and Associate Degree in Graphic Design from F.I.T, N.Y., N,Y., (1987).
She has had thirteen solo shows. Her most recent exhibitions, “Sheds of Light”, took place at Officinenove in Rome, 2023, and at High Noon Gallery, NY in 2024. Some others are: “Passages”, Chashama, NY, “The Fabric of Space”, Greek Consulate of Greece in New York, N.Y., 2018, “Persistent Dichotomies, Fox Gallery NYC, 2017, “Traverse” Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, Athens, 2015, “Underthread” Kaplanon Gallery, Athens, 2011, “Invisible threads”, Michael Walls Gallery, N.Y., N.Y., 1993.
Her work is shown in several group shows in Greece, France, Italy, Germany, China, Russia and the United States, such as, Shiva Gallery of the John Jay college (New York), Hellenic American Union (Athens), AAW Gallery, (Beijing), Museum of Contemporary Art Crete (Crete), State Museum of Contemporary Art, (Thessalonica), Greece, Freud’s Dream Museum (St. Petersburg), Lesley Heller Workspace, N.Y. ,Smack Melon (N.Y).
She divides her time between living and working in New York and Athens.