When We Lie Awake

NY Exhibition at Greek Consulate - Catalog Excerpt

“The artist Milton Resnick said, ‘Painting is — when you are together in an internal sense — a correspondence between what you are and what you see. It’s a moment when something is holding together in such a way that it is a universe in itself. It approaches as much completion as it possibly can. Within this is a test and also a judgment upon yourself, your capabilities, your promises, and the part that you play in the world. And nobody else can test that for you.’

Konstantinides’s work establishes a relation between losing oneself in nature, and losing oneself in the process of painting. It is an allowance of the possibility that Resnick suggests: where the very substance of painting can become a universe in itself. It is an aspiration at odds with our contemporary culture — where nameability and full disclosure is prioritized over the more subtle, gentler “unconcealments” that Konstantinides creates in time.”

— Jennifer Samet, Ph.D.

You can access the complete exhibition essay and catalog by downloading it here.