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We are very pleased to present Conversations – Part I, the first in a series of exhibitions that examine affinities in the work of artists separated by generation and geography. This dialogue between celebrated Greek artist Yiannis Moralis and young American Sarah Crowner addresses form, analogies, reductions, repetitions, and substitutions played out within a particular strain of modernism associated with geometric abstraction. Despite an insistence in non-illusionist space both artists appear to direct their work towards a more organic type of abstraction which rooted as it is in form, color and line, also uses personal and older visual languages as aesthetic solutions.

Yiannis Moralis (*1916), lives and works in Athens and Aegina. Recent exhibitions include Traces, a retrospective of his work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros and Yiannis Moralis, Drawings 1934-1994, at the Educational Institution of the National Bank, Athens. Apart from a large body of work consisting of paintings, sculptures and drawings he has also designed theatrical sets and costumes for the Greek National Theatre and the Greek National Ballet; has illustrated the poetry of Odysseas Elytis and Giorgos Seferis and has been involved in public projects including the design of the Athens Hilton façade, a mural for the Metro-Station "Panepistimiou" and the Athens Central Station. He is represented by Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens.

Sarah Crowner (*1974) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include Paintings and Pots at the Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, NY and Ceramics and Other Things (with Paulina Olowska) at the DAAD Galerie, Berlin. She has been involved in the design of various artists’ books including “Beatrice’s Library” which was produced on the occasion of her one person exhibition Handbuilt Vessels at Nice and Fit in 2008. She has participated in a series of collaborative projects with Dexter Sinister and she teaches at the Hudson Art School.