Bio
Emerging artist and spiritualist, Tia Koulianos, channels her art work due to a near-near death experience which awoke her connection to the Divine. While learning to balance her life with illness her main focus is on healing, well being and unity consciousness through her meditative art practice.
Koulianos was born in 1969 in the New York City Suburbs. She lives and works in White Plains, NY. Her Father was an art teacher at a Scarsdale Elementary School. Her Mother is a Columbia University English Literature graduate and author. Koulianos has studied sculpture (Under Sarah Katz and Barney Hodes) and design at various schools throughout New York City. Her work is in private collections in NY, CA, SD, NC, CT and Sweden.
Statement
My new body of work reflects human beings' connections with one another and how we can use these interconnections to create change on an energetic level. Painting the abstract female figure with large swaths of hair wildly splayed, reveals our uniqueness as well as our interconnectedness. We have roughly 100,000 hairs on our heads which to me represent a small fraction of the associations we have to one another.
Intricate networks of lines, lacing throughout the hair and figure link us, we are woven together as one. There is a force and an energy coming through these lines, because the healer in me creates from an expanded state. The vivid colors represent our energy centers. Healing occurs as we connect to the chakra colors, because we feel them. For example, green is used as the frequency of love, which is our heart chakra. We reach one another primarily through love. And orange is our sensuality, our emotions, our sacral center. This is where our rootedness and passion can harness that love and use it for good.
I prefer to paint women or the divine feminine aspect of the whole. She represents motherhood, the womb, nurturing and healing aspects within us. She is the ultimate creator and through her I envision these magnificent shifts in thinking and alignment. Thoughts are things and we are all energy. If I feel what you feel and vice versa, then my interest lies in how we can transform the planet and one other through conscious intention.
Having moved almost entirely to oil paints, oil pastels and oil sticks, I weave and layer textures in a way that reflects this idea of connection. We are individual facets of this planet yet we are all one. This commonality is where genuine transformations are sown.
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Tia Koulianos
1969 Born in Bronxville, US
Currently lives and works in White Plains, US
Education
2004-2006 Sculpture studies under: Barney Hodes
2004-2006 Sculpture studies under: Sarah Katz
1995,1996 Summer Study Abroad, Renaissance Immersion, New York School of
Interior Design, Italy, (under Paul Otto Heyer, President)
1994 New York School of Interior Design, Interior Design Certificate
Solo Exhibition
2018 “Tia Kool:The Painted Pooch”, The Living Gallery Outpost, New York,
US
Group
2023 Spectrum Gestalt, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Sprung 3, Arthouse NYC, New York, US
2019 Mamaroneck Art Stroll, Mamaroneck, US
Collections
2023 Private Collection, Greenwich, US
2023 Private Collection, Millbank, US
2022 Private Collection, New York, US
2022 Private Collection, West Covina, US
2021 Private Collection, Las Vegas, US
2021 Commission, Dover, US
2021 Commission, Clinton Township, US
2021 Commission. Alford, US
2021 Private Collection. San Francisco, US
2021 Private Collection. Lulea, SE
2019 Private Collection. New Rochelle, US
2019 Commission. Yonkers, US
2018 Commission. Mt. Vernon, US
Teaching
1987 Half Semester General Art Course, Scarsdale Alternative High School
Curatorial Project
2001 “Exhibit for Peace”, Synagogue Cafe. Chania, GR. Fundraiser for
Kosovo Refugees
Publications
2024 Addition Magazine, Issue Four