Zoe Keramea
Athens, Greece
3 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Athens, Greece and New York, NY, USA
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Works by Zoe Keramea
Zoe Keramea explores enfolded surfaces using sculpture, printmaking, drawing and ceramics.
She was born in Athens in 1955 and received a Meisterschülerin degree from the Universität der Künste Berlin in 1981.
She was awarded a Fulbright Grant in 1989 to work on her printmaking project "Two Stage Intaglio Matrix Prints - Zoetypes" in New York.
Zoetype is a printmaking process that involves the transfer of images from a worked metal plate (etching, aquatint, sugarlift etc.) on to the paper, via a woven cloth matrix, either directly or by retransfer on to a second metal plate. This process gives the print a much greater range of tonal and textural effect. The matrix can give a sharp relief with either its printed or unprinted side or the two maybe used in combination.
Zoe Keramea has participated in numerous exhibitions most notably Geometry of Paradox, 2005, at The Drawing Center, New York, the 18th Biennale of Sydney all our relations, 2012 (including the designs for the 18th instalment brand and campaign), and the Magnae Chartae exhibition curated by Michele De Lucchi as part of the 2022 Homo Faber event Creating A More Human Future in Venice.
Zoe Keramea has published numerous artist's books including:
Do Not Write Inside the Lines, and
Write Outside the Lines
Zoe Keramea - 2008. Each was printed in a limited edition of 500, in 2008, in Athens by Panos Davias.
The Twelve Months
Zoe Keramea - 2007
Twelve paper cut-outs of twelve Greek proverbs one for each month of the year.
These folk sayings trace the now vanishing human relationship to the cycle of the seasons.
The text of each proverb has to be deciphered hidden in the pattern of every image.Printed by Panos Davias in Athens in 2007 in a limited edition of 500 signed and numbered by the artist
She is included in the 2022 Homo Faber Guide as artisan paper sculptor.