Mahy Polymeropoulos

Executive Director of West City Contemporary and Ancient Mahy Polymeropoulos' post-fauvist and abstract oeuvre employs intense color as a means to express light and space, her artistic practice operates in an idiosyncratic atmosphere where the artist's emotional state, unconscious and personal inner vision become the vocabulary for her to express and communicate subtle and complex narratives that redefine notions of form and pure color. Her paintings are inspired by nature, the human body, sound and rhythm, while her current work employs diverse media (painting, sculpture, installation) to research on notions of survival and humanism. Polymeropoulos' often explores the border between painting and photography in her attempt to emulate nature, and primarily she works with metal, wire, wood, concrete, yarn, fabric and oil painting so as to poetically blend reality with imagination, darkness with light and surface with depth. Solo Shows
2022 - April, Superfine Art Fair, Washington DC
2021 - June, Rose Cherry, Paintings @Anargyrios&Korgialenios Foundation, Spetses, Greece
2020 - January Pop Up at Ralph Pucci furniture gallery LA
2019 - June - Big White Gallery, Mykonos, GR
2019 - February - July, "Time Change", Athens Plaza Hotel Explorers Club, Syntagma Square, Athens, GR
2018 - Consulate General of Greece NYC
2016 - Summer, Installation of 5 welded metal sculptures at Arts Club, DC Garden
2014 - St. George, Light Design Installation, Bethesda, MD
2014 - Art Soiree, Ritz Carlton, Washington, DC
2014 - Mosaic Installation, The Cloisters of Georgetown, DC
2013 - De Chirico Museum, Volos, Greece
2006 - Warehouse Theater Gallery, Washington, DC
2003 - Logo Design for Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Washington, DC
2002 - Wayside, Scenery for W***y Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Potomac, MD
2001 - Beverly Farms ES, Scenery and stage Installation for "Dinosaur Land" under the direction of Valia Vassila, Potomac, MD
1985 - White Hall Recreation Center Exhibition, Bethesda, MD. Private French Club of Georgetown, Washington DC

Group Shows
2022 - April, Sculpture NOW 2022, Washington Sculptors Group, Harmony Hall Arts Center, Fort Washington, MD
2021 - December, Design Project, Saint George Greek Orthodox Church, Bethesda, MD
2020 - Represented by Contemporary Athens Gallery, Kolonaki, Athens, Greece
2019 - November - Art Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair
2019 - Movement- Greek American Artists from New York, Potomac, MD
2018 - Marquis Miami, FL
2018- IFAC Gallery, 'The Fourth Stage', Lower East Side New York, NY
2018- Big White Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2017- Consulate General of Greece, New York, NY
2017- National Museum, Volos, Greece
2016- De Chirico Museum, Volos, Greece
2016 - 100 Canvases for 100 Years, Washington, DC
2015/16 – Maryland Agricultural Research Center, Baltimore, MD
2015 – Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. Interior Design (with knoll furniture) Washington, DC
2015 – Four Seasons, Washington, DC
2013/14 – Arts Club Group Exhibition, Washington, DC
2012 – Spilsbury Gallery, Washington, DC
2012 – National Museum of Women in the Art, Washington, DC
2007 – The Herman Maril Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, DC
1983 – George Mason University Student Union, Fairfax, Virginia
1994 – St. George Hall, Bethesda, MD
1978 - French Bistro _Cafe De Paris, Private Club, Georgetown DC. Installations
2020 Wood Installation, Fleeting Nature Nostalgia, Potomac, Maryland
2017 Georgetown University Lombardi Institute
2016 - Concrete sectional amphitheater, Potomac, Maryland
2016 - Concrete sectional amphitheater, Potomac, Maryland

The artist is a member of the Special Exhibition Circle of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The President's Circle of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Executive Board of the Washington Sculptors Group 2013-2021
Collector's Council Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

Memberships at the following Art institutions:
MOMA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Whitney Museum
AU Katzen Museum
GW Luther Brady Foundation
WPA
Arts Club of DC
Kreeger Museum,
National Portrait Gallery

Special Sponsorships of Exhibitions:

2016: Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Reverence, National Gallery of Art
2017: Vermeer and the Masters of the Genre Painting Exhibition, National Gallery of Art
2018: Rachel Whiteread Sculpture, National Gallery of Art East Wing
2019: Pat Steir, Color Wheel. Hirshhorn Museum and Scupture Garden

Publications:
Time Change, 2018
Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt, NGA 2016
Stylus, UMD 2007
Not all that I wanted to say, GMU 2003