Dimitra Skandali, an artist motivated by her love of Paros, works with materials like seaweed, flowers and boat fragments...

An article about Dimitra Skandali and her art practice.

In Italian. First edition of the Quaderni di Peripli magazine, March 2024.

From VoyageLA, Local stories.

August 2023.

A review of ‘reality check chapter II: inner sanctum’.

By Vicky Papageorgiou. January 29, 2022.

Athensinsider.com. December 27, 2021.

Athinorama.gr. By Aggelos Kladis. October 14, 2021. In Greek.

Art-agenda.com. October 12, 2021.

In.gr. October 9, 2021. In Greek.

Monopoli.gr. October 8, 2021. In Greek.

ARCHICHEARCH.COM. October 7, 2021.

Popaganda.gr. By Christiana Baxevani. October 1, 2021. In Greek.

Theartnewspaper.gr. By Alexandra Koroxenidi. October 1, 2021. In Greek.

Ozon magazine. October 1, 2021. In Greek.

...Exit paths, beds made of hand watches and 'small dazzled nothings': full page feature on Sunday's Kathimerini Greek National newspaper. September 26, 2021. In Greek.

Athens Insider. September 24, 2021.

MaxMag.Gr. By Christina Michailidou. September 24, 2021. In Greek.

Protagon.gr. September 20, 2021. In Greek.

Athens Voice. September 16, 2021. In Greek.

Feature on Saturday's Kathimerini Greek National newspaper. September 12, 2021. In Greek.

Monopoli.gr. By Spyros Kakouriotis. September 9, 2021. In Greek.

An imaginative celebration of trees as a source of aesthetic inspiration for human societies. In two international exhibitions, in Greece and Shanghai, with the collaboration of Fondation Cartier... In Italian.

A great interview from fellow artist and friend Alison (Ali) Woods in Shoutout LA, where she mentions our collaborations and inspirations:

This week, artists reflect on quarantining from their studios in Los Angeles, Nova Scotia, and a Grecian island.

We Are Here/Here We Are — a Google Maps-based self-guided tour of outdoor/street view site-specific sculptures opening at about 100 locations across the county, from DTLA to Long Beach, the Valley to Venice:
Press from LA Times, LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, KCRW, We Like LA, Art Clout Long Beach, ART AND CAKE, LONG BEACH POST, WEHOVILLE

(in Greek)

Fishing nets, nautical strings and seaweed are crocheted together to make this ethereal piece, whose shadow on the wall becomes part of the artwork. The artist sees it as a depiction of the "fragile networks" that are the seas' ecosystems.

"In The Stillness Between Two Waves of the Sea" was selected as one of the Memorable Art Events of 2018 by Contributor Kristine Schomaker from ArtAndCakeLA Art Magazine of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

In Greek.

On Vimeo
Curated by Alison Woods and Dimitra Skandali
Run of the show: September 9-23, 2018

Artists include: Carlos Beltran Arechiga, Anastasios Babatzias, Jorin Bossen, Gul Cagin, Jennifer Celio, Foteini Diella, Dani Dodge, Kio Griffith, Jenny Hager, Dimitris Katsoudas, David Leapman, Alanna Marcelletti, Stella Meletopoulou, Aliki Pappa, Despina Nissiriou, Max Presneill, Nikos Sepetzoglou, Fran Siegel, Dimitra Skandali, David Spanbock, Eleni Tziortzi, Elli Velliou, and Alison Woods.

by Janelle Bitker, for East Bay Express.

Alison Woods and Dimitra Skandali have assembled a beautiful collection of exibiting artists: Natasa Biza, Kio Griffith, Nancy Ivanhoe, Dimitris Katsoudas, Despina Nissiriou, Aliki Pappa, Ty Pownalll, Nikos Sepetzoglou, Fran Siegel, Dimitra Skandali, Valerie Wilcox, and Alison Woods.
You’ll want to visit this show here – it flows as beautifully as waves against the shoreline – before it travels abroad.

...The phrase “cartography of places” best captures the essence of what makes this show so special. As the viewer moves from piece to piece, they become aware that a story is being mapped out. The sea, as a physical entity and as a romantic notion, is the connective thread that weaves throughout the storyline....

On Vimeo
Curated by Alison Woods and Dimitra Skandali
Run of the show: June 2-19, 2018

Artists include: Natasa Biza, Kio Griffith, Nancy Ivanhoe, Dimitris Katsoudas, Despina Nissiriou, Aliki Pappa, Ty Pownall, Nikos Sepetzoglou, Fran Siegel, Dimitra Skandali, Valerie Wilcox, and Alison Woods.

A review in SquareCylinder for my solo show at Don Soker Contemporary Art in San Francisco, CA: "In my end is my beginning". Up through June 23, 2018.

while an Artist-In-Residence at The Studios of Key West, FL (March-April 2018).

The Catalogue.
Duration of the exhibition: April 18-June 16, 2018
Traveling to The Archaeological Museum of Patras, Patras, Greece: December 2018 - January 2019.

Plankton: Wonders of life, under the auspices of the Hellenic Center for Marine Research & the University of Patras, @Gounaropoulos Museum, Athens, Greece. Traveling to The Archaeological Museum of Patras, Patras, Greece: December 2018 - January 2019.
Duration of the exhibition in Athens: April 18-June 16, 2018

Pick from Art Practical for the Meltemia and Other Stories @Don Soker Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA.

Photographs by Alan Bamberger in the opening of Meltemia and Other Stories @Don Soker Contemporary.

I grew up in Alyki of Paros, Greece. I graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts in 2010 and went to the US to pursue my MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2011, where I graduated in 2013. Since then, I live and work in both lands. I carry my island with me everywhere and it shapes the way I see the world....

Dimitra Skandali is showing recent work at The Aegean Center this summer in her first show since she was a student here many years ago. She is from Paros but now lives and works in San Francisco....

(in Greek)

@Yerba Buena Center for the Arts website, San Francisco, CA

San Francisco artist Dimitra Skandali is long accustomed to going with the flow. Raised on the Greek island of Paros, she made her way to the city to pursue her master’s degree at San Francisco Art Institute in 2011, thinking she’d continue to create installations with branches and blossoms, or chicken wire and lightbulbs....

“The Ocean After Nature”: San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts these days is hosting exhibits that blend art, politics and current events. [...] And “Ocean After Nature,” which opened last week and runs through Aug. 28, features more than 20 works in various mediums that examine how oceans uniquely reflect the impact of a rapidly changing world. Bay Area artist Dimitra Skandali, known for her seaweed art and other sea-themed works, will be represented in the traveling exhibit.

Wendy Vogel reviews The Ocean After Nature exhibition for Frieze. In her review, Vogel explores the “meditative, essayistic approaches to the theme” of the exhibition taken by the 20 artists and collectives featured in The Ocean After Nature.

…the exhibition’s strength is in its framing of the ocean not just as a site of environmental catastrophe, but as a metaphor for all in nature that cannot be tamed. This is best expressed in works that consider the ocean’s affective qualities – as in Renée Green’s film Endless Dreams and Water Between (2009), an epistolary exchange about ‘archipelago mind’ – rather than in a single powerful image. By offering more poetic speculations than activist solutions, ‘The Ocean After Nature’ is like a diver, breaking the surface to plumb the depths of our perceptions....

Sam Lefebvre reviews The Ocean After Nature in The Wire 390.

The Ocean After Nature provokes viewers to reconsider the contours of global capitalism. It does not explore the plaza or the town square, widely thought to have supplanted the factory floor as the foremost sites of political expression. And it does not really explore the gaseous, diffuse networks of international finance that many political-economic theorists consider the definitive feature of contemporary capital circulation. The exhibition, curated by Alaina Claire Feldman, centres instead on the transport of goods and bodies and bodies-as-goods across bodies of water, a hallmark of globalisation with a pervasive impact on everyday life that’s often neglected in the age of seemingly instantaneous commerce online....

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts announces the debut of the traveling exhibition The Ocean After Nature, on view June 17 through August 28, 2016. Curated by Alaina Claire Feldman and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, the exhibition explores the ocean as a site reflecting the ecological, cultural, political, and economic realities of a globalized world. ...

Catalogue of the traveling exhibition, edited by Alaina Claire Feldman. Forward by Renaud Proch. Texts by Negar Azimi, Ursula Biemann, Yonatan Cohen and Rafi Segal, María del Carmen Carrión, Övül O. Durmusoglu, Kodwo Eshun, Patrick Flores, Ed Halter, Ebony L. Haynes, May Joseph, Amanda Parmer, Lisa Le Feuvre, Lucy R. Lippard, Andrey Misiano, Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, Lanka Tattersall, Virgil B/G Taylor, Jordan G. Teicher and Sarah Wang....

@San Francisco Travel

Exhibition catalog for the 2016 2x2 Solos featuring artists: Luca Antonucci, Sahar Khoury, Dimitra Skandali, and Christie Yuri Noh can be found here: http://www.blurb.com/b/7511734-2x2-solos-2016 or at ProArts Gallery @150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612
510-763-4361
info@proartsgallery.org

This interview was conducted between Dimitra Skandali discussing her site-specific installation for the 2 x 2 Solos at Pro Arts with curator, Samantha Reynolds.

As KQED joins the BBC at the Monterey Aquarium for a three-day maritime extravaganza, BIG BLUE LIVE in the coming days, KQED Arts marks the occasion with profiles of 10 Bay Area artists mining the depths of that same ocean.

enfolding was a piece that I made for the MAKE SPACE show at Berkeley Art Center, curated by Aimee Le Duc. Made from debris and sounds harvested from around the Berkeley Art Center.
Video by Heejin Jang

6885 miles was the piece I made for the NextNewCA show at San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art: an exhibition that featured a sampling of works by 2012 and 2013 graduates from 11 MFA programs across CA state including University of Southern California (USC), San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), California College of the Arts (CCA), Claremont Graduate University (CGU), Mills College (Mills), California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), San Francisco State University (SFSU), San Jose State University (SJSU), University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), University of California Berkeley, and Stanford University.

A review by Alan Bamberger for the ArtBusiness.com on the group show Wabi Sabi curated by Microclimate Collective @Alter Space,
March 2014

A review by Monique Delaunay for the SF ArtEnthusiast.com on the group show Wabi Sabi curated by Microclimate Collective @Alter Space,
April 2014

On the group show "Sustainable Art" at Refusalon - JW Marriott Hotel

Happy to be among the first shows at the Savernack Gallery.

"the Best Darned Little Art Show in Venice"

"For site-specific relevance nothing else in the show compared Dimitra Skandali’s installation of huge seaweed ball nearby gave off a musky scent, intensifying the maritime feel; but the bigger payoff from her part of the installation came from visual stimuli: woven strands which made the catacomb-like space appear even spookier than it actually is. (It received the Anne Bremer Memorial Prize, SFAI's best-in-show award.)"

"Dimitra Skandali, one of our favorite SFAI grads" at KQED

[...] "On the opposite side of the spectrum, dark, moody, and slightly spooky works are particularly well-suited to installation in the Mint's thick-walled downstairs rooms and vaults. In one excellent pairing, Dimitra Skandali's delicate seaweed chains droop overhead while Tom Loughlin's booming sound installation, Foghorn, makes the floor shake ominously." [...]

from Art Enthusiast

an article at ArtBusiness.com

Best in show goes to Thalassa Dimitra Skandali and Tom Loughin’s installation in the basement vault’s hallway. (Skandali above, Loughlin’s sound piece with wool, below)

Photos of the exhibition at the SOMArts

May 2011
for the piece: "Amaranta Sea/Sky"

Select: Exhibition, 2010
Location: City Link, Syntagma Square, Athens, Greece

Announcement at CultureNow.gr ((in Greek)