About the Artist

Artist Johniene Papandreas set up a makeshift studio in a vacant storefront in Provincetown, MA in the summer of 2002 as respite from her career as a theatrical designer for corporate events.  By the end of that summer it was clear she had found the way back to her "road not taken" and so she stayed, making new friends from all over for 14 summers. 

 

In 2016 she relocated her gallery to cyberspace and studio to Peterborough, NH where she would be happy to see you any time.

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About the Art

Artist Johniene Papandreas employs scale and the intensity of the cinematic close-up in her portraits and lushly atmospheric botanical paintings inspired by classical masters such as Caravaggio, Da Vinci, and Michaelangelo as well as Pre-Raphaelite and French Romantic artists.

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Her portraits zero in on the micro-expression, the fleeting expressions between expressions that we sense rather than see, to reveal moments thought private, unobserved; moments when you may glimpse the absolute truth...the moments just before the walls go up.  

As one engages her work, it is not unusual to experience a sensation of communion when the subject sparks something  in the viewer's memory  “My paintings can be emotionally provocative.  Every reaction is unique because we each carry different emotional baggage”, says Papandreas.  “As you gaze into their eyes your subconscious is unpacking that baggage.”

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Employing an unusual technique using casein, a type of milk paint, the paintings have a soft, luminous quality that appear to glow from within even in the dimmest of light. ​

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