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Artist Statement:
www.angeliqueantoniou.com
"A Glimpse of Life"
My photographs represent my
life. They show how I see the
events that occur around me. I
am exposing my life to you,
for these photos are the
moments in my life which I
thought were worth preserving
and exhibiting. Each moment
can never be recaptured. That
is one aspect that makes
photography so powerful and
amazing. Who can ever recreate
that moment in time, that
feeling! No one. So, my aim is
to grab that moment that might
have passed unnoticed or been
forgotten in order that we
might reflect on it, and on
ourselves. I want you to see
"a glimpse of life" through my
eyes. As Henri Cartier-Bresson
said, " We are passive
onlookers in a world that
moves perpetually. Our only
moment of creation is that
1/125 of a second when the
shutter clicks, the signal is
given, and motion is
stopped..."
"Dancers"
My first love was ballet. I
began dancing at the age of
three. Due to an injury I was
forced to quit when I was
fourteen. Though I shall never
again feel my body move across
the floor as a dancer, I can
still experience ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
SELECTED ONE PERSON
EXHIBITIONS
1998 - Brand Art Galleries,
Atrium Gallery - Los Angeles,
CA
1998 - Torrent Art Gallery,
Online Gallery
1997 - The Finer Side
Galleries - Salisbury, MD
1997 - Spartanburg County
Museum of Art, Milliken
GallerY Spartanburg, SC
1996 - St. Joseph Foundation,
Healing through Art - Burbank,
CA
1996 - Gallery of Photography,
University ...
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Artist Galleries:
angeliqueantoniou.com
Gloria Delson Contemporary
Arts.com - Los Angeles, CA
Art Dimensions.com - Los
Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Contemporary
Musuem of Art Sales and Rental
Gallery - Los Angeles, CA...
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Collections:
Corporate Collection
1. Castle Rock Entertainment -
Beverly Hills, CA
2. Atlantic Investment Co. -
Atlanta, GA
3. Poppa Productions, Inc. -
Burbank, CA
4. Rabun Gap Films - Smyrna,
GA
5. Valkyrie Theatre of Dance
and Drama - Los Angeles, CA
Private Collection
1. Jaclyn Smith
2. Melita Easters Hayes
3. Mark Rydell
4. ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Reviews for Angelique Antoniou:
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Los Angeles Times Art Review - April 2, 1998
"Conceptual Contrasts" In Brand Library exhibits, one photographer toys with shapes and space, while another explores details of dancers.
Photography is the medium of the month at the Brand Library, but the artists involved in the dual exhibition are two minds about their chosen craft. One uses the medium as a part of a larger process, as a conceptual ploy, while the other heads down the middle of photojournalistic tradition....
Reality Checking: On the other hand, photographer Angelique Antoniou is quite content to let the medium be itself. Her photography adheres to the time-honored convention of using the camera as a means of capturing what Henri Cartier-Bresson called "decisive moments."
In the case of her show in the Atrium Gallery, the moments worth capturing are all about the world of dance, often behind-the-scenes, or to the side of center stage.
Coincidentally, Antoniou is also showing work as part of the "Human Presence" group exhibit at the Century Gallery - a rare time when an artist shows different work concurrently in the Valley. There the subject is more human, in the expected, everyday sense, focusing especially on children and the elderly.
At the Brand, her images reveal an artist piqued by the things that captivated Degas with his enigmatic paintings of dancers - a half-lit, kinetic, athletic, graceful domain. Shot at various spots around the globe, Antoniou's imagery works best when the subject is not onstage, but to the side.
There are telling details and precious glimpses of dancers. In "Degas Remembrance," leggy ballerinas lounge in the wings, in nervous anticipation. And in "Legs in a Row," dancers form an echoing cascade of diagonal limbs across the composition, contrasting the gauzy rustle of their costumes.
This is the best image of her bunch. It says a lot about the almost paradoxical elements of muscularity and flight in dance, as well as the sentient eye of the photographer, artfully lurking, waiting for the right decisive moment.
Joseph Woodward
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