http://www.irenepantelis.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1531404741030-BIWCUVB8NHPQPRWD5ZFV/Oil+and+Water.jpg Mapping blemishes - Oil and water (2018) Ink, linseed oil, water on paper (12" x 12.5"). First Place Award, Two-Dimensional Category, Sadat Art for Peace Competition: Confronting Prejudice and Hate, The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland at College Park (2018) (now held in its permanent collection) It is often said that oil and water do not mix. Yet, when placed on a surface, they come together forming blots and swirls. One element shapes the other until they find a perfect balance. The blotting and swirling can be captured with ink, forming a pattern, one that I imagine as being ancient, the strength of which lies in the coexistence of materials that have a different density and polarity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1531404741030-BIWCUVB8NHPQPRWD5ZFV/Oil+and+Water.jpg Mapping blemishes - Oil and water (2018) Ink, linseed oil, water on paper (12" x 12.5"). First Place Award, Two-Dimensional Category, Sadat Art for Peace Competition: Confronting Prejudice and Hate, The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland at College Park (2018) (now held in its permanent collection) It is often said that oil and water do not mix. Yet, when placed on a surface, they come together forming blots and swirls. One element shapes the other until they find a perfect balance. The blotting and swirling can be captured with ink, forming a pattern, one that I imagine as being ancient, the strength of which lies in the coexistence of materials that have a different density and polarity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1454732053294-4N55X2PJW59VFYZJ1N2A/Pantelis15.jpg Mapping blemishes - Muro abierto (2015) Wood, fabric, acrylic (14" x 17" x 9") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1515893448380-4K07SYG5K4A68N5BB38D/IMG_E4820.jpg Mapping blemishes - Washington DC by memory (2017) Ink on paper (49.5" x 38") Held by the District of Columbia Commission on Arts and Humanities Art Bank Winner of the Juror’s Choice Award, American Landscapes, Maryland Federation of Art (awarded by Joann Moser, Senior Curator Emerita, Smithsonian American Art Museum) (2018) This large ink drawing was inspired by an old-fashioned map of Washington, D.C.--the large and bulky paper kind that one hardly sees around anymore. I used this kind of map to navigate the region when I first moved with my family to D.C. from my native Bolivia in the 1980s. Its all-encompassing pages laid down the various neighborhoods and roads, going from zoomed out views in the first pages to close ups in the later pages. As the years went by, as most others, I set the paper map aside in the abyss of a drawer, coming to rely instead on GPS, which, for the most part, does not show large overviews, but rather limits the view to one’s location and the few blocks around it. Stumbling upon the paper map after many years of disuse, before even opening it, I wondered if I could still remember what the region’s zoomed out topography looked like. So, I set myself to draw Washington D.C. by memory, laying down inks for the terrain and atmosphere, scratching out the houses and roads with a needle, finding out that I could only recall the beltway, major highways, and the neighborhoods that I have personally traveled since moving and settling in this adopted homeland of mine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1487281800603-DZHPTXBD1U7FWV1XO3BA/concrete+landscape.jpg Mapping blemishes - Landmarks (2016) Cement, acrylic on paper (24" x 12") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1487282851620-M2WZSZF965F5QZTA9SHF/airplane+view+two.jpg Mapping blemishes - View from an airplane I (2016) Cement, wax, ink, paper on wood (24" x 12") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1633985035193-AISOHZGN62SOXFFJ0P0O/airplane%2Bview%2B2.jpg Mapping blemishes - View from an airplane II (2016) Cement, ink, acrylic, beeswax on wood (24" x 12") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1487283169976-CZ0RKXHT0KL91EZ7ZN3B/airplane+view+3.jpg Mapping blemishes - View from an airplane III (2016) Clay, plastic mesh, beeswax on wood (24" x 12") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1487281492714-PI5PP7JEJ1DIMHP5K4VR/concrete+map+1.jpg Mapping blemishes - Cement continent I (2016) Cement, ink on paper (30" x 22") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1487281548545-KX69X3LZRHIQXQRXF02O/map+2.jpg Mapping blemishes - Cement continent II (2016) Cement, ink on paper (30" x 22") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1487282239271-PTOF59GCKG06RV5UT7AU/brown+drawing.jpg Mapping blemishes - Before the advent of grids on maps (2016) Cement, acrylic, ink, beeswax on paper (23" x 8") https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/56b56fabab48de0b9cf598d8/58aa07bb9f74561f4dc03a77/1736719406406/ Mapping blemishes - The Origin of Grids (2016) Video (1:49) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/56b56fabab48de0b9cf598d8/58aa085b9f74561f4dc04281/1736720477601/ Mapping blemishes - Aquel lago (2016) Video (1:42) Awarded the Graduate Award, Visualizing Migration, Center for Literary and Comparative Studies, University of Maryland at College Park (2017) Aquel Lago is a short video inspired by a childhood memory. Before moving to the United States as a teenager, I used to visit Lake Titicaca often. My most salient memory of this stunning, large mountain lake is looking at the stones under its pristine, blue water. The video is, to some extent, a meditation on that memory, as I experience it today, being an adult, living in a different part of the world from where I grew up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1736722033513-EA5M745D6SJUS31GUZ2G/image-asset.jpeg Mapping blemishes - Coalescence (2016) Video (1:59) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/56b56fabab48de0b9cf598d8/58ac8e9b46c3c46d21daa8ba/1736722119361/ Mapping blemishes - Aquel Lago (2016) Video (1:42) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/56b56fabab48de0b9cf598d8/58aa08129f74561f4dc03f2f/1751420485337/ Mapping blemishes - Padre Nuestro (2016) Video (2:49) The circular shape in this video is an ink drawing of the internal structures of my eye based on a photographic image my ophthalmologist gave me at a regular exam visit. The sound is a layering of my voice repeating in Spanish the Methodist version of the Our Father prayer, a moving meditation about the landscape, the body, and the soul. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/56b56fabab48de0b9cf598d8/56b56fcaab48de0b9cf59964/1736720477619/ Mapping blemishes https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/56b56fabab48de0b9cf598d8/58aa083b9f74561f4dc040cc/1736722119364/ Mapping blemishes - Observation (2016) Video (1:25) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1487698348978-LPIXMXH2RN9G4VETEYGM/city+pattern.jpg Mapping blemishes City Fabric (2017) Acrylic, wax, ink, cement, paper on canvas 50"x 50" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1454732868718-NZ66FXC91TBS4JSGFSIK/image-asset.jpeg Mapping blemishes http://www.irenepantelis.com/quipus daily 0.75 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1633812888651-8G4DLMZXFOC7227I9ILI/image-asset.jpeg Quipu reverberations - Knots, fractals and roots Exhibition view at Holzhauer Gallery, Mattie Kelely Arts Center, Niceville, Florida (August-October 2021). Ink and oil paint on mylar (20 panels, 12” x 12” each) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1524796310638-OPSDQVNM3UX5IEI3D6BP/Quipu+Reiteration+1.jpg Quipu reverberations - Quipu reiteration I (2018) Overhead projector, sumi ink on mylar (dimensions variable) What we know today about the quipus, the string and knot records made by the Incas to record tax and population data, as well as collective narratives, is mostly based on the drawings and accounts left by the early Spanish settlers, followed by the subsequent studies of legions of anthropologists. The majority of quipus themselves were destroyed by the Spanish colonizers. Learning about the quipus is immersing oneself in a litany of renditions and writings all marked by the writers’ views and agendas. My projections of gestural drawings of quipus reflect on the elusiveness of our past and how much our understanding is derived from a precarious process of transmission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1633812888651-8G4DLMZXFOC7227I9ILI/image-asset.jpeg Quipu reverberations - Knots, fractals and roots Exhibition view at Holzhauer Gallery, Mattie Kelely Arts Center, Niceville, Florida (August-October 2021). Ink and oil paint on mylar (20 panels, 12” x 12” each) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1524796465301-VN7N5GBUVMJPSO9PLSA9/Quipu+Reiteration+2.jpg Quipu reverberations - Quipu reiteration II (2018) Overhead projector, ink and oil paint on mylar (dimensions variable) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1520685860760-5NM4PTWJWETXZ7OAPW86/khipu+2.jpg Quipu reverberations - Quipu with lacerations (2018) Ink on paper (17" x 14") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1524796566986-X37ZCH49IYSWU7ITU6TL/Quipu+Reiteration+3.jpg Quipu reverberations - Quipu reiteration III (2018) Overhead projector, ink, linseed oil on mylar (dimensions variable) Quipus were made as part of maintaining a thriving nation. While not fully deciphered yet, quipus are believed to have recorded census and tax data, as well as computations, on a decimal system. The records also served as nemonic devices to pass down oral traditions. This and the next drawing envision the quipus as part of the landscape and built environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1524796630167-HNDGVKWYDY1GKLWKE9C8/Quipu+Reiteration+4.jpg Quipu reverberations - Quipu reiteration IV (2018) Overhead projector, sumi ink on mylar (dimensions variable) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1520654676208-LF9IINCSBGTSVOXNAZTX/khipu+1.jpg Quipu reverberations - Sino quipu (2018) Ink on paper (17" x 14") Gestural drawings are uniquely both ancient and fresh. They are complete, but at the same time have the quality of being unfinished, like the sketch of something seen in passing, or the diagram for a future piece of art. This quipu drawing and the one above dabble in Chinese calligraphy, in a nod to the finding of quipus in China that precede those of the Andes, as well as the growing influence of China in the region. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1524796735924-XGHNFNV0CZYP0BQRLWRI/Quipu+Reiteration+5.jpg Quipu reverberations - Quipu reiteration V (2018) Overhead projector, white oil paint on mylar (dimensions variable) The fate of the quipus is symbolic of so much ancient history, forgotten yet still viable. These artifacts were, except for a few, destroyed by the Spanish colonizers. This and other quipu gestures I made came out looking like a bundle of roots, rich and complex, whose sprout or plant above ground is no longer there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1554645232824-F8WY8H5L2ATMQVIM9ECR/quipu+midpoint.jpg Quipu reverberations - Quipu (string and knot record) 2018 Polylactic acid filament, pins (approximately 6' x 5') The basic composition of a quipu looks a lot like a computer data sheet. Strings of information stream down in parallel line, creating an enigmatic pattern along the horizontal markings. The composition also looks like the branching of trees or the delta of a river in that a string splits into smaller ones that split even further. This also mimics our present-day flow charts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1527473224949-CD0UBHV9UA2DV594NBHP/Quipu+grid+detail+4.jpg Quipu reverberations - Root inklings (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1527473144109-0WWH1OOWK7NOITSRUQPE/Quipu+grid+detail+3.jpg Quipu reverberations - Root inklings (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1527473421921-6C087SNXK2XFVFTTHYWK/Quipu+Grid+detail+1.jpg Quipu reverberations - Root inklings (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1527473499282-RGV8TQCT731E856HBTSC/Quipu+grid+detail+2.jpg Quipu reverberations - Root inklings (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1736720836785-RP76615VX5CZKDX6O61Y/image-asset.jpeg Quipu reverberations - Capacocha (2021) Video (2:24) A message in a bottle, washed ashore, perhaps in my heartland. Inspired by the child sacrifices of the Incas. Are their spirits, released into the world through elaborate rituals and hypothermia to protect us from natural forces, still out there? Music is a fragment of Agua, composed by Patricia Bedregal Velazco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1616613400571-01H667AVSU47I343YXUX/image-asset.jpeg Quipu reverberations - Capacocha (2021) Video (2:24) A message in a bottle, washed ashore, perhaps in my heartland. Inspired by the child sacrifices of the Incas. Are their spirits, released into the world through elaborate rituals and hypothermia to protect us from natural forces, still out there? Music is a fragment of Agua, composed by Patricia Bedregal Velazco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1523038713155-GOE2X9L94PXIA70C3500/Khipu+%28string+and+knot+record%29.jpg Quipu reverberations - Quipu (string and knot record) (2018) Polylactic acid filament, pins (approximately 6' x 5') The basic composition of a quipu looks a lot like a computer data sheet. Strings of information stream down in parallel line, creating an enigmatic pattern along the horizontal markings. The composition also looks like the branching of trees or the delta of a river in that a string splits into smaller ones that split even further. This also mimics our present-day flow charts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1520649289519-L06ZF2LH7IDA28CFT6J3/Khipu+bristol+1.jpg Quipu reverberations - Khipu with Musical Calligraphy (2018) Ink on paper (17" x 14") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1522447026703-7WLW492QKVGKALA44SUZ/Khipu+long+cells.jpg Quipu reverberations - Twenty Seven Equivalents (2018) Ink on paper (15" x 14") Quipus were made by tying a series of strings in parallel fashion to a major cord and then tying knots on the strings. The type and placement of the strings and knots created a sophisticated code that has not yet been fully deciphered. My gestural drawing was made by placing 27 long streams of water on paper and then floating dots of black ink on the surface of the water, creating my own code. http://www.irenepantelis.com/burbs daily 0.75 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1515895213786-KKJIUC114G1TBRAB5PSP/IMG_E4816.jpg Beneath my lawn - The strata beneath my house (2017) Ink and charcoal on paper (27" x 48") Joann Moser, Senior Curator Emerita of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in selecting this drawing for an exhibition organized by the Maryland Federation of Art, wrote that “[t]he unseen layers of earth beneath a house have little to do with visual reality but instead emerged strictly from the artist’s imagination. . . . [a] composition that stimulated my imagination to consider landscape from a nonliteral point of view.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1515895213786-KKJIUC114G1TBRAB5PSP/IMG_E4816.jpg Beneath my lawn - The strata beneath my house (2017) Ink and charcoal on paper (27" x 48") Joann Moser, Senior Curator Emerita of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in selecting this drawing for an exhibition organized by the Maryland Federation of Art, wrote that “[t]he unseen layers of earth beneath a house have little to do with visual reality but instead emerged strictly from the artist’s imagination. . . . [a] composition that stimulated my imagination to consider landscape from a nonliteral point of view.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1548210697654-0NUOKLBGSKZHC7B08X7A/Floor+installation+closeup+2.jpg Beneath my lawn - Exhibition: "Beneath my lawn," Common Grounds Gallery, VisArts, Rockville, Maryland (December 2018-January 2019) Polylactic acid filament (8’ wide). Looking at my lawn one day, I became curious as to who might have lived on our lot of land before we purchased it. I embarked on a research project to find out the history of my neighborhood. I learned that it once belonged to indigenous peoples who were forced out, that tobacco farmers settled it, bringing slavery along, that the locals fought in the Civil War, that the area became estates for former army officials, that it was slowly developed into suburban residential slots, and that many locals have been active in civil rights and other movements. All these stories struck me as a web of sorts that connects with my daily life somehow. I imagined these stories as a network of nets vibrantly quiet beneath my lawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1554612196116-PEZFEPI3TY2T96ZQUQXG/Detail+banner.jpg Beneath my lawn - Beneath my lawn (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1515970584210-V45UVCAOX001LFDTAHAU/IMG_E4798.jpg Beneath my lawn - Window screen imprint (2017) Ink and charcoal on bristol paper (24" x 19"). Exhibited at Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, New York, 2019 This drawing captures with ink the pattern left by running a brush loaded with ink through one of my home’s window screens, then corrected with charcoal dots https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1516394082374-SAJA5FGSCFEA25WW8TBE/image-asset.jpeg Beneath my lawn - Heartbeats in a Jar Pinewood, varnish, glass jars, mini speakers, speaker wire, anduino circuits, recordings of my heartbeat and recordings of the heartbeat of my father, mother, son, daughter, brother and nephew (made in collaboration with Marcos Pantelis) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1515732744670-5K01TQKZJ57E0XNG79ZD/image-asset.jpeg Beneath my lawn - Sink Connections (2016) Soundtrack (1:03) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1548210201693-5KN4DWKZ7WKA71H4DMZ1/Detail+1.jpg Beneath my lawn - Beneath my Lawn (detail) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1515696020984-501L1ARL4U2JAEF8LYJ6/image-asset.jpeg Beneath my lawn - Me, Myself and Home (2016) Soundtrack (1:23) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/5a565f5a53450afb1400c1e7/5a57af94a6525a22e806778a/1515696019045/ Beneath my lawn http://www.irenepantelis.com/marks-of-existence daily 0.75 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1559057102507-AZFSQ0XEBSUAYDG0UH17/At+this+moment+warm+light.jpg Marks of existence - At this moment (2019) Exhibition: “Marks of existence,” University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park (May 2019) impermanence, becoming, dissatisfaction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1559057102507-AZFSQ0XEBSUAYDG0UH17/At+this+moment+warm+light.jpg Marks of existence - At this moment (2019) Exhibition: “Marks of existence,” University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park (May 2019) impermanence, becoming, dissatisfaction https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1559057012318-CR349RSGDX6N3XIHD7VV/At+this+moment+warm+light+installation+view.jpg Marks of existence Polylactic acid filament (30 ’x 11’ Installation) The three-dimensional forms in this site-responsive hanging installation quote simultaneously natural formations, alive creatures, and manufactured artifacts, as these share, in my view, the same source and destiny. The forms pile on to create a drawing in space that moves gently with the circulation of air in the room. Illuminated with warm lighting that casts shadows in a wide range of tonalities, creating complex echoes and depths, the forms force the eyes to continuously move around. This was one of my earliest works in which I begun to brake down the dichotomy between what’s human and what’s natural, portraying their juxtaposition and interconnection instead, propelled by a nascent awareness that romanticized depictions of the environment are a myth and that we are living in a moment in history where many currents are asking us to reassess our place in the universe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1559060392397-03R2T0TDIK5IOTV18S4V/Just+About+Still+2.jpg Marks of existence - Almost Video (10:48) http://www.irenepantelis.com/bystanders daily 0.75 2025-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1736721272375-D7FF8NDQW1VDLHSSK51N/Thumbnail+copy.jpg Soft edges - That Eyelash (2021) Video (1:45) When ink and water are set to motion, they spring to life, unfolding narratives, softening the edges of drawings, revealing the inner mush in the subject matter which, in this case, are eyelashes, those mindless moments in which we touch ourselves, intensely alive, seeking refuge internally https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1736721272375-D7FF8NDQW1VDLHSSK51N/Thumbnail+copy.jpg Soft edges - That Eyelash (2021) Video (1:45) When ink and water are set to motion, they spring to life, unfolding narratives, softening the edges of drawings, revealing the inner mush in the subject matter which, in this case, are eyelashes, those mindless moments in which we touch ourselves, intensely alive, seeking refuge internally https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1641249593995-W805JM9BD183G9MSQI39/Thumbnail+copy.jpg Soft edges - That eyelash (2021) Video (1:45) When ink and water are set to motion, they spring to life, unfolding narratives, softening the edges of drawings, revealing the inner mush in the subject matter which, in this case, are eyelashes, those mindless moments in which we touch ourselves, intensely alive, seeking refuge internally https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1624896027072-RRGPMEBXSSB0YWSCJL9W/Every+Time.jpg Soft edges - Every time (2021) Acrylic and ink on plexiglass, fabric (22” x 28”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1705250884191-2LIVVY9WAXN5ROOW0ZDB/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - Entre Eros y Thánatos (2021) Video (5:38) This experimental short is a collaboration with Patricia Bedregal Velasco de Avila, an amazing musician and childhood friend who lives and works in La Paz, Bolivia. She composed the music and I did the animation. The musical score features her at the piano and Roberto Morales on the saxophones, all mixed into a chamber piece by Studio 66. My ink drawings respond to the music, together unfolding a renewed tale about love, death and the cycles of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1707432716919-OAP33NZEQ60AL3T3UKUF/Now+I+Close+My+Eyes.jpg Soft edges - Now I Close My Eyes (2020) Ink and color pencil on paper (22” x 30”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1601492099067-MVFGOFSLBBWON823DUEJ/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - La tía (2020) Ink and color pencil on paper (22” x 30”) Held by the Mattie Kelley Arts Center permanent collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1616122819241-AELHUAZQRJ76W34WTDWM/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - 2021 Ink and watercolor on paper (22” x 30”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1707432127978-FRVP85IM2CG98L9MYOLU/08+Fancy+Hat.jpg Soft edges - Fancy Hat (2020) Sumi ink on paper (18” x 24”) (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1621781944239-7NH1BWHPNUAVOPPNUPZ8/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - Quizás (2021) Video (2:06) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1613600514952-KFSKD7IC6C3DU0FDKGUL/Al+barro+volvemos.jpg Soft edges - Al barro volvemos (2021) Ink and color pencil on paper (22” x 30”) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1614353877303-Y3KQ7E3P7NMQASM2J304/face+touch.jpg Soft edges - Eyelash (2021) Ink and color pencil on paper (22” x 30”) those moments when we mindlessly touch our face https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1736721468410-VQPLJ8MTDC3J4ZT6U3H3/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - Undertow (2021) Video (5:08) Undertow came about when I was hiking on a drizzly day along the Patuxent River in Maryland. While I have always been a frequent hiker, the pandemic and disturbing events of this past year have made being outdoors even more important to me, distilling my thoughts, dissipating my worries, endlessly inspiring my ink drawings. While on this hike, I recorded the sound of the river and drips falling near me. As I was standing still, I noticed I could see my own reflection on a puddle, all bundled up, like an assailable warrior of sorts. This moment inspired this two-part filmed drawing about 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1613012184177-F3FBSTFX5CLBIIBHOU0B/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - Undertow (2021) Video (5:08) Undertow came about when I was hiking on a drizzly day along the Patuxent River in Maryland. While I have always been a frequent hiker, the pandemic and disturbing events of this past year have made being outdoors even more important to me, distilling my thoughts, dissipating my worries, endlessly inspiring my ink drawings. While on this hike, I recorded the sound of the river and drips falling near me. As I was standing still, I noticed I could see my own reflection on a puddle, all bundled up, like an assailable warrior of sorts. This moment inspired this two-part filmed drawing about 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1624764076740-F5ZT9AQMW276AMGUK23G/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - Stubborn beneath (2021) Ink and acrylic on paper (22” x 30”) Collaging cutouts from drawings found in my discarded experiments pile; rearranging split natures; conjoining old and new, here and there, them and I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1736721512096-SL6EJVK3CUI2TFSJVMXO/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - When Our Edges Grow Soft Video documentation 3:24 Thinking about our “edges,” I set out to draw portraits, initially of myself, and then of others whose photographs caught my attention on the internet. I began each drawing by placing on the paper a puddle of the most basic of elements, which comprises most of our bodies, and which we share with the rest of nature—water. Mindful of the water puddles’ physical edges—their borders and surface tension—I drew mostly with inks. As the water’s expressive power transformed my rhythmic mark making, I felt as if I was watching a story unfold on the paper, a narrative about the fluid and murky nature of identity and memory, freshly extracting from my present-day subjects older, maybe even ancient, archetypes of sorts, echoing back to me the last line in José Antonio Rodríguez’ poem In the Presence of Sunlight—"I’ve written about this so many times.” Many thanks to Aneta Georgievska-Shine for her advice curating this show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1633894018771-JAD2037RC8Z3Z41ECL21/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - Exhibition: "When our edges grow soft," Stone Tower Gallery, Glen Echo Park, Maryland (July 2021) Video documentation 3:24 Thinking about our “edges,” I set out to draw portraits, initially of myself, and then of others whose photographs caught my attention on the internet. I began each drawing by placing on the paper a puddle of the most basic of elements, which comprises most of our bodies, and which we share with the rest of nature—water. Mindful of the water puddles’ physical edges—their borders and surface tension—I drew mostly with inks. As the water’s expressive power transformed my rhythmic mark making, I felt as if I was watching a story unfold on the paper, a narrative about the fluid and murky nature of identity and memory, freshly extracting from my present-day subjects older, maybe even ancient, archetypes of sorts, echoing back to me the last line in José Antonio Rodríguez’ poem In the Presence of Sunlight—"I’ve written about this so many times.” Many thanks to Aneta Georgievska-Shine for her advice curating this show. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1612112874747-SE8ZJ3EZE1VPJJBEIZVD/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - Maria (2021) Video (2:50) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1612112760834-JRT1Z91UADWUP3PTJAMZ/image-asset.jpeg Soft edges - Undertow (2021) Video (2:39) http://www.irenepantelis.com/its-not-easy-becoming-a-fossil daily 0.75 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1736721660443-WY8XY7KOX0PA2QPQFX18/image-asset.jpeg Becoming a fossil - Because I wanted you not to know Video (2:29) Drawing an erotic scene from the Sun Temple of Konark, I had the urge to wash the drawing away, to somehow get rid of the guilty pleasure of using an image so explicit and so belonging to a different time and culture, but as I poured water, the ink swirled into the present moment and told a story anew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1736721660443-WY8XY7KOX0PA2QPQFX18/image-asset.jpeg Becoming a fossil - Because I wanted you not to know Video (2:29) Drawing an erotic scene from the Sun Temple of Konark, I had the urge to wash the drawing away, to somehow get rid of the guilty pleasure of using an image so explicit and so belonging to a different time and culture, but as I poured water, the ink swirled into the present moment and told a story anew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1692659602734-Q62ZLSEI4ZOFXV1K65TZ/image-asset.jpeg Becoming a fossil - Because I wanted you not to know (2020) Video (2:29) Drawing an erotic scene from the Sun Temple of Konark, I had the urge to wash the drawing away, to somehow get rid of the guilty pleasure of using an image so explicit and so belonging to a different time and culture, but as I poured water, the ink swirled into the present moment and told a story anew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1637451337338-QGPESIHD6OME8RC742ZS/image-asset.jpeg Becoming a fossil - Wrapped (2021) Ink and collage on paper (14.25” x 17.75”) Riffing off of a photograph of a mummified parrot found in the Atacama Desert, believed to be the victim of an ancient poaching trade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1618423342221-Y61ME3K0655I0X4994KF/image-asset.jpeg Becoming a fossil - Just the same two (2020) Ink, pigment and color pencil on paper (22” x 30”) Riffing off of a picture of the Ain Sakhri Lovers, a small sculpture 11,000 years old found in a cave near Bethlehem, credited as being the most ancient sculpture of lovemaking found to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1591123395680-2YLHXJNP2SIC67ZGNH3L/Sometimes+we+turn+into+a+puddle.jpg Becoming a fossil - Oh man that kiss (2020) Ink and color pencil on paper (22’ x 30’) Another watery and hot one inspired by the Sun Temple of Konark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1633876000006-9LLK3FK4AJ9KXYTB6C27/image-asset.jpeg Becoming a fossil - Exhibition: "It's not easy becoming a fossil," Mattie Kelley Arts Center, Holzhauer Gallery, Niceville, Florida (August-December 2021) Video documentation 4:18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1590598844973-IH54MO8LT7F5R83IR6YY/image-asset.jpeg Becoming a fossil - Satyr gazing (2020) Ink and color pencils on paper (22” x 30”) Awarded “Best in Show” by Ndubuisi Ezeloumba, curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art, at the 28th Annual Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibit, Mattie Kelly Arts Center Galleries, Niceville, Florida (2020) Satyr Gazing started with splashes on the paper of the most fundamental of elements—water. Comprising most of our beings, indispensable to our survival, yet a formidable destructive force at times, water created a pattern on the paper, on which I drew gesturally the portrait of an ancient Greek satyr. This mythological character was a goat-man nature spirit that followed Bacchus, the god of wine and debauchery. While drunk and rambunctious, he also had a great sense of intuition and loyalty, and could deliver pearls of wisdom. In my drawing, the water’s expressive power transformed my mark-making, dubbing the initial narrative into a story anew about the satyr still in us all—that animal nature that is all very human, that human thing that is all pretty much nature, that captivating sensuality of our ambiguous temperaments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1594838707830-I0GACM4MHZGJUAN6KVKW/image-asset.jpeg Becoming a fossil - Skeletons in the cave (2020) Ink on paper (11” x 13”) Riffing on a photograph of the remains of a young couple that perished about 6,000 years ago. Their skeletons were found embracing in a cave near Mantua. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1736721691473-AGX32PYB5AXTW5705GU9/image-asset.jpeg Becoming a fossil - It's Not Easy Becoming a Fossil Video documentation 4:18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1590599101529-XKKTLY6U5H4T16552W15/image-asset.jpeg Becoming a fossil - Yea, art thou from the planets, or the fiery womb? (2020) Ink, pigments and color pencils on paper (18” x 24”) Riffing on Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss, and one of his inspirations, poet Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil, channeling Rodin’s practice of drawing from sculptures and moving models, enveloping the figure in washes to find new edges http://www.irenepantelis.com/cactus-of-the-sands daily 0.75 2026-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977849278-IXBUSTS32GGLOQP9SK91/mineral+roots.jpg Cactus of the sands - Mineral roots (2022) Inks and color pencil on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. Winner of an Honorable Mention, Positive/Negative 38th National Juried Exhiibition, Tennessee State University, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, Tennessee (awarded by Mark Scala, Chief Curator of the Frist Art Museum in Nashville) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977849278-IXBUSTS32GGLOQP9SK91/mineral+roots.jpg Cactus of the sands - Mineral roots (2022) Inks and color pencil on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. Winner of an Honorable Mention, Positive/Negative 38th National Juried Exhiibition, Tennessee State University, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, Tennessee (awarded by Mark Scala, Chief Curator of the Frist Art Museum in Nashville) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977846671-FNILW03VL9B4BKVN1YEP/moist.jpg Cactus of the sands - Moist (2022) Inks on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. Winner of an Honorable Mention, Positive/Negative 38th National Juried Exhiibition, Tennessee State University, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, Tennessee (awarded by Mark Scala, Chief Curator of the Frist Art Museum in Nashville) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977844857-ABXWS95T2RV37ITP42VG/utmost+solitude.jpg Cactus of the sands - Uttermost solitude (2022) Inks on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977846391-497YCIPBG9B031ZWUZL3/tranquil.jpg Cactus of the sands - Tranquil (2022) Inks on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1667183629443-63MD6R9GPW8DAOLH3NYI/in+the+whip.jpg Cactus of the sands - In the whip (2022) Inks on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977850164-QNING26PJMGTTRQGK5UN/prickly+health.jpg Cactus of the sands - Prickly health (2022) Inks on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977850953-8C16BXOCZ6PFYPGOM0TW/earthly+rings.jpg Cactus of the sands - Earthly rings (2022) Ink on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977851458-DJKX3WYWGCJ90RGM4BV7/Fragrant.jpg Cactus of the sands - Fragrant (2022) Inks on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1667183669082-56R1JHJW6IWC4L0UM9EF/since%2Bancient%2Btimes.jpg Cactus of the sands - Since times unknown (2022) Inks on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977842708-QXSVGO1QRZ5BQB1R8ORS/plume.jpg Cactus of the sands - Plume (2022) Inks and color pencil on vellum, 19.5 x 19.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977870419-TPTQ11FIP87Y2N2UB2HH/los+suenos+del+erizo.jpg Cactus of the sands - Los sueños del erizo/Wishful thinking (2022) Ink and color pencil on paper, 37.5 x 31 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977861209-YQZV2HQTQ5P19D337X9A/brotes.jpg Cactus of the sands - Brotes centenarios/Hundred year old sprouts (2022) Ink, color pencil and mesh on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645977872073-7PSC158OXVLBZ774VRPX/envueltito.jpg Cactus of the sands - Envueltito (2022) Ink, color pencil and mesh on paper, 16.5 x 16.5 in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1645978182981-O6IUS6RP1Y0PE0U27XXC/image-asset.jpeg Cactus of the sands - Los cactuses de la costa desde el espacio/Satellite view of the remaining cactus mounds (2022) Ink, acrylic and color pencil on paper, 37.5 x 25 in. (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1646178206805-SUAB2N1PIIB8DNJVZ9TB/image-asset.jpeg Cactus of the sands - Review: Mark Jenkins, "In the Galleries: The art of looking inward to create societal change/Irene Pantelis," Washington Post, February 11, 2022 Many thanks to Adah Rose Bitterbaum for curating this exhibition http://www.irenepantelis.com/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699651163267-L2MCLUGC8U0XX7XAXQBP/Washington+Post+Review+Of+Water+Too+Are+the+Grasses.jpg Of water too are the grasses - Review by Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, "In the Galleries/Irene Pantelis," November 10, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699651163267-L2MCLUGC8U0XX7XAXQBP/Washington+Post+Review+Of+Water+Too+Are+the+Grasses.jpg Of water too are the grasses - Review by Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, "In the Galleries/Irene Pantelis," November 10, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699649581215-3EBILWB7ZR1FM59QGS65/image-asset.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - Give and take (2023) Sumí and walnut inks, acrylic on vellum, 60 x 36 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699648948678-YHDBG3MDP9LDUBXU2HYX/The+dry+world+knew+to+stay+wet+2M.jpg Of water too are the grasses - The dry world knew to stay wet (2023) Sumi, walnut ink, watercolor on vellum, 60 x 40 inches (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699649993394-S2RFQFEUVP3CDNS167TW/Of+Water+Too+Are+the+Grasses+%2820+M+300+dpi%29.jpg Of water too are the grasses - Of water too are the grasses/De agua somos (2023) Winner of the Leon Andrus First Place Award, 2024 Adkins Arboretun Juried Show, Ridgely, Maryland. Curator Mehves Lelic wrote: “I love how the ink is traveling on the paper and telling us about the intentions of the artist, but there are parts of it that are so controlled. I also like the undercurrents of decay, which to me is such an important part of our relationship with nature. I think this piece touches on that while carrying a sense of exuberance.” Sumi ink and color pencil on vellum, 60 x 36 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699650132496-GBRKDRDURU7QOLFQM90K/Water+replenishes+all+the+parts+20M.jpg Of water too are the grasses - Water replenishes all the parts (2023) Sumi ink on vellum, 60 x 36 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699755770682-KGQ4M2WZXOHCCC36M4LR/Weeping+grass.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - Weeping grass/El pastito que lloraba (2023) Inks and watercolor on vellum papers, 24 x 19 inches (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699755928932-PU6MRU6OM5A5Q86DK3SN/We+are+the+clovers+in+your+lawn.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - We are the clovers in your lawn (2023) Sumi and walnut ink on vellum, 24 x 19 inches (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699755985039-3357I3IGNP5D7BVIEOS7/Thankfull+for+all+your+careful+care.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - Thankless for all his careful care (2023) Sumi ink on vellum, 24 x 19 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699755983889-KQVLOMHIOMSUEHYPMKUH/An+thou+shalt+find+me.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - And thou shalt find me (2023) Sumi ink on vellum, 24 x 19 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699755982640-6JQZUD282D7DMK2IWZYX/No+turmoil+on+sight.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - No turmoil on sight (2023) Sumi ink on vellum, 24 x 19 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699756128138-PSXONKSHLGKVHVXK55ED/A+couple+dozen+grasses.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - A couple donzen grasses (2023) Ink, acrylic on vellum, 20 x 36 inches (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699756125732-5S0DJ1WRX4L6278AJ3Y0/Hooves+and+heads.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - Hooves and heads (2023) Sumi, walnut ink and watercolor on vellum, 20 x 36 inches (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699755986495-WF9ZZ3O6ER149LQBT5S9/The+worm+still+slumbered+there.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - The worm still slumbered there (2023) Sumi ink on vellum, 24 x 19 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699648573530-0MW37LX936XELUTJ4P5Z/Desde+abajo+%2820M%29.jpg Of water too are the grasses - Desde abajo (2023) Polylactic acid filament, approximately 12 x 12 x 24 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699755769550-67KEJ6NXG3XV7X3HM7II/String+trimmings.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - String trimming (2023) Walnut ink and watercolor on vellum, 14 x 11 inches (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699758155463-Q3WGIT53CD5I9YIMW8SJ/An+inch+of+sod.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - An inch of sod (2023) Sumi ink on vellum, 14 x 11 inches (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699758080177-3EPESPN9KAI5Y3PVOLDU/Low+sweet+notes.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - Low sweet notes (2023) Sumi ink, watercolor on vellum papers, 14 x 11 inches (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699761953501-41V9XMSI4H3VW7IV9CE3/Lucious+soils.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - Luscious soils (2023) Sumí ink and watercolor on vellum, 14 x 11 inches (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699758225916-A4AEZ7JKNEAMFECQLF1E/The+weed+gone%2C+the+grass+bled.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - The weed gone, the grass bled (2023) Watercolor on vellum papers, 19 x 6 inches (private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1699747498011-XC9ZDTMER35B82TR183Q/image-asset.jpeg Of water too are the grasses - Artist Talk: Conversation between visual artist Irene Pantelis and curator Aneta Georgievska-Shine, "Of Water Too Are the Grasses," Studio Gallery, Washington, D.C., November 4, 2023 http://www.irenepantelis.com/when-time-is-a-keyhole daily 0.75 2025-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277600747-CX7S4TOIDIYM0GE3VYVB/Leaf-Hole+I.jpg When time is a keyhole - Leaf-Hole I (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on printmaking paper, 18 × 12 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277600747-CX7S4TOIDIYM0GE3VYVB/Leaf-Hole+I.jpg When time is a keyhole - Leaf-Hole I (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on printmaking paper, 18 × 12 inches https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/6712ae013b00387fe949bb39/6712ae1f2e717a647e0274f8/1729278714643/ When time is a keyhole https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277601095-AXSI21SOQI6FV4O9VJMC/Leaf-Hole+II.jpg When time is a keyhole - Leaf-Hole II (2024) Walnut ink and watercolor on printmaking paper, 18 × 12 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277602699-2TOIR4GKQWHP0LAAV1VK/Leaf-Hole+III.jpg When time is a keyhole - Leaf-Hole III (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on printmaking paper, 18 × 12 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277604456-RRH6QXKLIV8ZLHI6K4QU/Fragments.jpg When time is a keyhole - Fragments (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on vellum, 24 × 18 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277607631-YED54GAXM5W00GK6LWXJ/Search.jpg When time is a keyhole - Search (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on vellum, 24 × 18 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277607944-Q1L5O5U6F4JODFM3WCB6/Oozing.jpg When time is a keyhole - Oozing (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on vellum, 24 × 18 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277609266-XCDHTLEQE6KSAI1IOIZ8/Wripple.jpg When time is a keyhole - Wripple (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on vellum, 24 × 18 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277605938-JXFK1MHYHGOG3CD3KO2I/Retreat.jpg When time is a keyhole - Retreat (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on vellum, 24 × 18 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277602759-OK4XFSH061V8LP400LF1/Through.jpg When time is a keyhole https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277606101-KJTXXLHOCBSVZHM96O5A/Shift.jpg When time is a keyhole - Shift (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on vellum, 24 × 18 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277609651-GODTJV7N7ZH7WFLT1Z71/Schism.jpg When time is a keyhole - Schism (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on vellum, 24 × 18 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277604291-CHTJ0YSJWNSWIUI1N0BZ/Effervescence.jpg When time is a keyhole - Effervescence (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on vellum, 24 × 18 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277610939-AW6BT3DAFB7SW84FHCWX/Temptest.jpg When time is a keyhole - Temptest Sumi ink and watercolor on vellum, 24 × 18 inches (held in a private collection) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1729277612861-RSWN95ZV0XRP8A81CVPB/Breadth.jpg When time is a keyhole - Breadth (2024) Sumi ink and watercolor on yupo paper, 14 × 11 inches http://www.irenepantelis.com/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1751421487206-92L0EZBXM4FLD9V6N4A2/Willowsong%2Broom%2Bview.jpg Willowsong - Willowsong Restaurant Mural (2025) Acrylic panels back printed, 18 × 7 feet I created a large mural for the Willowsong, a restaurant that opened in March 2025 at the Intercontinental Hotel by the Wharf in Washington, D.C. I was intrigued by the fact that Jeffrey Williams, the restaurant’s chef, picked Willowsong as the name because, upon landing in the city, he noticed that willow trees dot the Washington landscape. I have always loved willow trees. I like the shape of their branches, the droopiness of their leaves, and their proximity to water. They seem so modern and ancient at the same time. I made several drawings of willow trees with inks and watercolors on vellum paper, inspired by one down the street from where I live, some found by the Potomac River, and even one I recalled from childhood near my grandparents’ farm in Uruguay. I then collaged my ink drawings digitally to create depth by layering them and back printed the image on large acrylic panels, which are mounted on a folding wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1751421487206-92L0EZBXM4FLD9V6N4A2/Willowsong%2Broom%2Bview.jpg Willowsong - Willowsong Restaurant Mural (2025) Acrylic panels back printed, 18 × 7 feet I created a large mural for the Willowsong, a restaurant that opened in March 2025 at the Intercontinental Hotel by the Wharf in Washington, D.C. I was intrigued by the fact that Jeffrey Williams, the restaurant’s chef, picked Willowsong as the name because, upon landing in the city, he noticed that willow trees dot the Washington landscape. I have always loved willow trees. I like the shape of their branches, the droopiness of their leaves, and their proximity to water. They seem so modern and ancient at the same time. I made several drawings of willow trees with inks and watercolors on vellum paper, inspired by one down the street from where I live, some found by the Potomac River, and even one I recalled from childhood near my grandparents’ farm in Uruguay. I then collaged my ink drawings digitally to create depth by layering them and back printed the image on large acrylic panels, which are mounted on a folding wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1743880594542-JCENB6UGOMIMQ8BJX3VG/Willowsong+with+Irene+copy.jpg Willowsong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1751421712270-HHJS66G9V823C6JS0GB2/Willowsong+room+view.jpg Willowsong https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/67f17df063c035294cb6aeae/67f17e4f8fedf366d18a5d79/1770602221795/ Willowsong http://www.irenepantelis.com/new-gallery-4 daily 0.75 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1767588700740-L2MS5MPLMZM5XRQUBXSJ/image-asset.jpeg This Little Glade - Installation views of "This Little Glade," Mixed Media Works by Irene Pantelis and Rhonda Luckey, Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, Maryland, November 4, 2025-January 2, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1767588700740-L2MS5MPLMZM5XRQUBXSJ/image-asset.jpeg This Little Glade - Installation views of "This Little Glade," Mixed Media Works by Irene Pantelis and Rhonda Luckey, Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, Maryland, November 4, 2025-January 2, 2026 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1767664677787-R9U7MGF3S8DXOF9G6GYX/A+Muddy+Cliff+20MB.jpg This Little Glade - The Muddy Cliff Sumi and walnut ink, vegetable dyes, watercolor on paper, 30.8 × 33 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1767664821362-UXZNHJFORSGPX8FB9800/The+Drip+20MB.jpg This Little Glade - The Drip (2025) Sumi and walnut ink, vegetable dyes, watercolor on yupo paper, 24.6 × 33 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1767668194622-3PW8EPUL8STHQCDGPIRD/That+something+else.jpg This Little Glade - That Something Else (2025) Sumi and walnut in, watercolor, on yupo paper, 42 × 32 inches https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/695b27a363369436bb5ae977/695b33511191fe26989375c8/1770601967602/ This Little Glade http://www.irenepantelis.com/new-gallery-5 daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774924290995-6OO7IC757MIZX8IB286U/image-asset.jpeg Bitter Bark - Protective Sheath (2026) Sumi ink, cinchona bark dye, watercolor on yupo paper, 30 × 20 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774924290995-6OO7IC757MIZX8IB286U/image-asset.jpeg Bitter Bark - Protective Sheath (2026) Sumi ink, cinchona bark dye, watercolor on yupo paper, 30 × 20 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774924803614-7O97IW26G4XSZXMRZT9I/Jesuit%27s+Bark.jpg Bitter Bark - Jesuit's Bark Watercolor, walnut ink on yupo paper, 20 × 15 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774924661374-49I9LEAL34SQXTCIKCIZ/Robustas.jpg Bitter Bark - Robustas (2026) Sumi ink, watercolor on yupo paper, 30 × 20 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774925229600-VRZTG2KKFOSC3HTFDK8G/Fever+Tree.jpg Bitter Bark - Fever Tree (2026) Walnut ink and watercolor on yupo paper, 20 × 15 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774924610598-WHVSQYLYR4O44MER2TGF/Royal+Efforts.jpg Bitter Bark - Royal Efforts (2026) Sumi ink, watercolor ink, cinchona bark and watercolor on yupo paper, 30 × 26 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774925069561-S6GAB95X5H50TI3SWB94/Blue+Mass.jpg Bitter Bark - Blue Mass (2026) Sumi and walnut ink, cinchona dye, watercolor on yupo paper, 30 × 20 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774924924013-CI21HL6P2U75QGT71SM4/Encounter.jpg Bitter Bark - Encounter (2026) Sumi ink, cinchona dye, watercolor on yupo paper, 30 × 20 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774925126468-GGFIEP635TQCQI0S37N3/Heme.jpg Bitter Bark - Heme (2026) Sumi ink, cinchona dye, and watercolor on yupo paper, 30 × 20 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774925178194-RU3DVO49ZS57AH1DERTG/Seedlings.jpg Bitter Bark - Seedlings (2026) Sumi ink, cinchona dye, and watercolor on yupo paper, 30 × 20 inches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56a7e6284bf118831a4a80e7/1774925833925-8KIAP36Y8QC2RCP2UOJ3/Bitter+Bark+Artist+Talk+Pic.jpg Bitter Bark - 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