Demetra Tassiou: Reflections & Constance Cone: Drawing Wilfred Owen

The 3rd Street Gallery is pleased to present two solo exhibitions this May. Demetra Tassiou: Reflections, and Constance Cone: Drawing Wilfred Owen will be featured in the Main Gallery from May 3 through May 28, 2017.

First Friday, May 5, 5-9 pm.

Demetra Tassiou Artist Reception: Sunday, May 21, 4-6 pm

Constance Cone Artist Reception: Sunday May 7, 2-4 pm

Regular Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 12-5 pm

Demetra Tassiou

Tassiou builds on her past work to construct new and sometimes surrealistic interpretations of the world around her. Abstract forms and elemental movement coupled with her thoughts, ideas, and imaginative reconnections are at the center of her artistic process. She incorporates shapes and lines that mimic the rhythms and the forms of organic materials found in nature, using mixed media that can include acrylics, oils, pastels, embossing paper and digital prints. Tassiou holds an MFA in printmaking from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Athens in Greece, where she majored in Painting and minored in Art Education and Ceramic. She has exhibited extensively in the Philadelphia area and surroundings as well as New York City, Greece, and Italy.

Constance Cone

In Drawing Wilfred Owen, Cone presents work based on the poems of Wilfred Owen, one of the British "Trench Poets" of World War I. After a pause of several years, she returned to the poems and made a journey to the battlefields from Verdun, France to the Menin Gate, a monumental portal in Ypres, Belgium that honors the 54,395 missing Commonwealth war dead killed in the Ypres Salient. It was through the original city gate at the site that British and American soldiers left for the front. Having come of age during the Vietnam War, Cone finds that the poetry of the Great War is incredibly powerful and resonates with her. She translates this feeling into her visual work. Her show includes pastel drawings, photographs, and mixed media. Cone has an MFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Prior to that, she was a fine art photographer working in platinum and palladium. Cone has exhibited extensively in Philadelphia, the Tri-State area and around the country including Maryland, Texas, New York City, and New Orleans. Her work is in collections in the Delaware Art Museum, and the art galleries of the University of Notre Dame and Vassar College, as well as in corporate collections at museums, as well as in corporate and private collections.