Isis Lykou was born in Athens where she lives and works.
She studied painting at the Fine Art School of Athens (ASFA).
She also has a degree in design from EDIM Geneva.
Her work is inspired from the organic elements of nature.
She uses ink and acrylic.

Education:
BA in Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts,
2017, Athens Greece
BA in Design, EDIM Geneva, Switzerland

Exhibitions:
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Open Studios, Trii Art Hub, Athens Greece
2017 Trans Allegoria, Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos Greece
2017 New Documenta, Gallery of Books, Athens Greece
2016 Shimmer Hydra, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens Greece
2013 Art for All, Gyzi Megaron Festival, Santorini Greece

More About Isis Lykou

How would it seem like to portray the boundless and the specific at the same time?
The aura of the flow and the sensation of the staticity? Isis Lykou experiments with
exactly that sense of fusion between precision of microcosms’ elaborate structures
and macrocosms’ abundance and vagueness. She creates abstract universes where
the whole absorbs the partial and vice versa, thus inventing an aesthetic perpetual denaturation.

She is mainly inspired by biological elements and shapes one finds in nature, focusing on their anatomy.
Faint and sometimes almost invisible organic looking forms merge with each other synthesizing broader,
constantly expanding structures. The artist creates illusory mosaics of microscopic and panoramic perspectives
in which science pretends to meet utopia and complexity joins abstraction.

Isis presents her own imaginary “biology” and “physics” of seeing and perceiving, embracing the very sense
of duality which nature itself assimilates. There are no concrete forms prevailing in her artworks; there are no
beginnings or ends, each and every component of her paintings contributes to a peculiar scheme of “synergy”
through which equilibrium and harmony emerge.

Isis Lykou’s artworks are kaleidoscopic amalgams, attempts of a unique aesthetic alchemy as well as aesthetic
experiments on entropy: everything in our universe is transformed; every possible “usefully ordered” system
tends towards a disordered state, towards chaos.

Vana Verriopoulou, Art Historian