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Education
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Bachelors of Fine Arts, May 2001
Concentration: Sculpting/ Painting
Residencies
Saltonstall Foundation – August 2000
Exhibitions & Festivals
2013
State of the Art: Art Trail Group Show – Ithaca Ny, 14850 – October, Group
Artist Row Market – Rochester Public Market – September 15, Group (Hon. Men.)
Plein Air Festival - Damiani Wine Cellars, Hecter, NY 14818 - July 27, Group
Ithaca Artist Market – Steamboat Landing, Ithaca, NY 14850 – July 26, Group
Damiani Wine Cellars – Hector, NY 14841 – June, Solo
Leidenfrost Vineyards – Hector, NY 14841 – June, Solo
CAP ArtSpace - Ithaca, NY 14850 - February, Solo
2012
Storytellers - Briarcliffe College Gallery - Bethpage, NY 11714 – November-January, Two Person
MAC 650 Gallery – Middletown, CT 06457 - October, Solo
Stella's Cafe - Collegetown, Ithaca, NY 14850 - September, Solo
Plein Air Festival - Damiani Wine Cellars, Hecter, NY 14818 - July 28, Group
Ithaca Artist Market – Steamboat Landing, Ithaca, NY 14850 – July 27, Group
Art Barn (Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival) – Trumansburg, NY 14886 – July, Group
Benjamin Peters (Ithaca Commons) - Ithaca, NY 14850 - June, Solo
Silky Jones – Ithaca, NY 14850 – April –May, Group
Guerrilla Gallery @ Standard Art Supply - Ithaca, NY 14850 - March, Group
Studio West – Ithaca, NY 14850 – February –April, Solo
Found in Ithaca – Ithaca, NY 14850 – January, Solo
2011
Kosmos - The Space @ Greenstar, Ithaca, NY 14850 - December 16-17, Group
Holiday Artist Market - Women's Community Building, Ithaca, NY 14850 - December 10, Group
Ryan McGuire Pseudo Gallery – Trumansburg, NY 14886 – November, Group
Benjamin Peters (Ithaca Commons) - Ithaca, NY 14850 - October, Solo
Art in the park – NewPark, Trumansburg, NY 14886 – August 27-28, Group
Corks and More (Wine bar & tapas) – Ithaca, NY 14850 – August, Solo
Art in the park – NewPark, Trumansburg, NY 14886 – July 30, Group
Ithaca Artist Market – Steamboat Landing, Ithaca, NY 14850 – July 29, Group
Art Barn (Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival) – Trumansburg, NY 14886 – July, Group
Greenstar Oasis (café) – Ithaca, NY 14850 – June, Solo
NY Lifestyle Magazine Launch (Union Square Studios) – NYC, NY – May 5 – Exhibiting Solo Artist
Gimme Coffee (Cayuga Street) – Ithaca, NY 14850 – April, Solo
Alternatives Federal Credit Union – Ithaca, NY 14850 – January, Solo
2010
Gimme Coffee (Green Street) – Ithaca, NY 14850 – December, Solo
The Westy (tavern) – Ithaca, NY, July – September, Solo
2009
“Painted Violins”, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra - Ithaca, NY, September 2009 – April 2010. Group
Lifeline Chiropractic - Ithaca, NY, February 2009 – May 2010
Race Orchestral Strings - Ithaca, NY, October 2009 – Ongoing, Solo
2007
ABC café - Ithaca, NY, June, Group
2001
Saltonstall Residence Artist Group Show, State of the Art Gallery – Ithaca, NY - September
Senior Art Show. Handwerker Gallery - Ithaca College. April – May, Group
2000
“Boxed In” by Jeff De Castro. State of the Art Gallery - Ithaca, NY – August, Group Collaboration
“Drawing from Perception III” Dayton Ohio - Wright State University – August, Competition
Del Mar College
Silverbird Café, Ithaca, NY – April, Solo
Moosewood Café. Ithaca, NY – March, Solo
Reviews
2013
Ithaca Times – “Zakos Bifurcated Self-Nudes at CAP Artspace
“Both austere and rich, Zakos’s sculpture has a memorable intensity of physical presence, a viscerally compelling quality. The play between picture and sculpture offers another pathway for engagement: thought provoking while going beyond mere novelty. “
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February 20, 2013, Arthur Whitman
http://www.ithaca.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_f7b91354-7b7d-11e2-94dc-0019bb2963f4.html
What’s Hot – “Anesti Zakos – A Sculpture Artist”
“His art is very much a story. A story of his life and rebirth through his artistic process.”
February, 2013, Allison DeDominick
http://www.readwhatshot.com/files/63163351.pdf
2012
Tompkins Weekly - Pictorial Sculpture Explored in Exhibit
"An ambiguity between picture and sculpture animates much of the work of local sculptor Anesti Zakos. The wall-mounted constructions that make up “The Myths of Gulliver,” his current show at FOUND Antiques, convey some of the possibilities for both expression and awkwardness inherent in this approach."
January 9, 2012, Arthur Whitman
http://www.tompkinshosting.com/tompkinsweekly/TompkinsWeekly120109.pdf#page=7
2011
Ithaca Times - Anesti Zakos: The Myths of Gulliver
“If you have never stopped to consider the symbolic ramifications of that plot point, then the sculptures of Anesti Zakos will make you do so now.
December 22, 2011, Bill Chaisson
http://www.ithaca.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_b737b6fa-2b56-11e1-892f-0019bb2963f4.html
2002
Ithaca Knowledges
"Anesti Zakos's arresting metal sculptures were a prominent attraction at last year's show."
Spring 2002
2001
The Ithacan
“…featured sculpture by Ithaca College graduate Anesti Zakos.”
September 13, 2001, Michael Geller
http://www.ithaca.edu/ithacan/articles/0109/13/accent/3ithaca_galle.htm
2001
Ithaca College News
"Anesti Zakos '01, art, recently displayed one of his works in a national juried show called Drawing from Perception III at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. In addition, he received a grant from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and spent a month this summer at the Saltonstall Arts Colony near Ithaca."
http://www.ithaca.edu/icnews/vol23/23-01/kudos.htm
2000
Ithaca Times, “Boxed In”
"Anesti Zakos, a recent Ithaca College graduate, focuses on how we look at consumer objects…"
Lauren Byler, 08/16/2000
• anesti zakos •
Born in Queens, NY
Lives & works in Ithaca, NY
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My work attempts to explore many of the elements that drive we endlessly fascinating humans each day – our inescapable relationship with our emotional state, the barriers of our own creation, and the curiosity that keeps us striving forward despite those obstacles.
Each of us lives our daily lives in a labyrinth of emotion; even the most self-assuredly rational among us is, in ways large and small, reacting to these chemical and biological surges of feeling from deep within. These emotions (and our responses to them) are both constricting and liberating, keeping us in a constant state of motion. They bind us to one another and they bind us to the natural world in ways that each of us is just beginning to understand.
At the same time, we are throwing up barriers, keeping ourselves safe. We construct these walls to protect our fragile selves – from our surroundings, from our desires, and even from our growth as fully realized components of the world in which we walk, live, love, and work. Yet these very barriers can come to define us – what we can and will tolerate, with whom we will relate and how, and our ability to respond to challenges that arise. In many ways, we are housed within the walls we construct for ourselves, and while they may keep us warm and safe from the winter of the world beyond, so too do they stifle us.
At our core, we are born of curiosity. Often the simplest questions are those that plague us the most, becoming the most confounding. Simply put, what is real? What is unreal? Where is the liminal zone that defines the two, and how do our own limitations on our perceptions allow us to define, experience, and value each?
It is this curiosity that powers each of our journeys, and mine in particular. As I work with these varied materials, I am exploring my own journey through my emotional reality, my protective barriers, and my existential curiosity. Each has tangible and intangible qualities that define it, as do we all. As these emotions struggle to find their voice, their outlet, their escape, they become manifest in a piece that speaks to our individual and collective journeys. Each is a marker of an emotional mile travelled; each is a milepost along the road to the inevitable destination.
