Anastasia Pelias

Anastasia Pelias

b. 1959, New Orleans
lives in New Orleans

Anastasia Pelias received a BFA from Newcomb College of Tulane University, New Orleans (1981), and an MFA from the University of New Orleans (1996). She is a painter and sculptor whose work explores color and the tension between object and form. Pelias creates site-specific installations in which she examines personal history, familial relationships, and human ritual. She draws from her Greek and New Orleanian heritage to infuse her work with her preferred subjects: love, sex, death, destiny, and the female experience. Pelias’s work invites viewers to immerse themselves in the expression of her story, but also to examine that story introspectively. Pelias has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums nationwide, including the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Ford Foundation Gallery, New York; Pensacola Museum of Ar, Floridat; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; and the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art; McNay Art Museum; Ogden Museum of Southern Art; Newcomb Museum; Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, and in private and public collections around the world. Pelias is represented by Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans.

Anastasia Pelias. Etsi einai i zoë (So is life), 2019. Limestone, clay, wood, grass, water based paint, and sheep. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist