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Born in Sparta, Greece, raised in Montreal, Canada and living in St Louis, USA. Angie Antonakis (known professionally as Angakis) is a Greek American abstract painter whose multi-cultural experiences are woven in her works. In 2025, Antonakis presented her solo exhibition "I'Il Be Your Mirror" at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, a major body of thirty black-and-white paintings exploring reflection, duality and psychological depth. She extended her visual vocabulary into stage installation and immersive spatial language with her painting "Equality" being featured in the theatrical production "The Hood" at the Plyfa Theatre in Athens, Greece. Before devoting herself entirely to painting, Antonakis owned and curated two galleries in Greece. She played a key role in the arts community development in Virginia, where she served as President of the Parsons-Bruce Art Association. As President she spearheaded the transformation of a historic tobacco factory into The Prizery, an arts and cultural center affiliated with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Her art has been collected and exhibited internationally throughout Europe and the United States. She currently resides in St. Louis and travels between her studios in Belleville, Illinois and Sparta, Greece.

Artist Statement

I paint to translate emotion as it happens into abstract form, an immediate record of pressure, speed, and choice. Working primarily in acrylic, I use a palette knife and roller to build and revise the surface through intuitive improvisation. Layers accumulate, then shift: I scrape back, rework wet passages, and allow accidents to become structure. My paintings often hold more than one image at once. Transparent strata conceal earlier marks, so what is present can remain hidden until the viewer spends time with the work. As details emerge and recede, a quiet dialogue begins: the painting offers a field of sensation, and the viewer completes it through perception, memory, and association. The work is shaped by the emotional weight of personal and world events. I return to the studio from an instinctive urge to make the invisible visible to transform what is undefined into lived experience.