Alexis Avlamis

The Glacier
Issue Three
Winter 2024

Against the Current

Encaustic on plywood

Reconciliation

Encaustic and oil on plywood

Cracked Yet Not Broken

Encaustic and oil on plywood

Alexis Avlamis (b. Athens 1979) received an early art instruction in Painting and Ceramics from Bennington College, Vermont and later on a BFA (hons) in Painting and Mosaic from the Athens School of Fine Arts. He uses both painting and language to investigate the complexities of memory and identity. Through improvisation, intuition and by tapping into a stream of consciousness his work blurs the boundaries of both material and imagined worlds. While his practice has engaged collage, acrylic painting, and colored pencil, he is best known for his use of the ancient Greek encaustic technique. He is currently engaged in an experimental archaeology project with the Acropolis Conservation and Restoration service on the use of both Punic wax and Encaustic within the architectural polychromy of the Parthenon in Athens. Avlamis’ work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, published in numerous American poetry anthologies and literature journals, as well as for Art21’s blog: Inside the Artist’s Studio, 2010. He has attended artist residencies in the United States, China and Finland. Alexis was the recipient of the International Emerging Artist Award (Drawing and Illustration category) based in Dubai. His works may be found in private and public collections worldwide.

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