Now Working On
Eleni Smolen
Now Working On
PHOTO BOOK PROJECT
What have I been working on since January 2026 in my new tiny studio here in the West End of Vancouver? Well, actually, as the cliché goes, the world is my studio so I’ve never stopped taking photographs - iPhone and Sony 35mm - everywhere I go: people, dogs, people with their dogs, cityscapes, landscapes, seascapes, trees, forest, beaches, seaweed, shells, geese, gulls and crows, buildings, museums, galleries, public art, bookstores, ferries, islands, artists, friends in their studio, curatorial projects over the years, art I’ve made, people looking at art, patterns, colors, abstractions….there’s always something somewhere.
I started a photo book project to try to organize them which, hopefully, becomes an interesting journal and record of the past several years. If nothing else it will serve as a memento for me to refer back to and reminisce on. Maybe I’ll call it my ‘memory book.’
* I call the new studio ‘full-circle’ because this is how I started – in a small, upstairs bedroom on Vail Road in Gulf Summit, New York, in the mid-nineties , I started to paint for the first time (biophilia series) and over the years my studio went through various iterations in size and location. Now I have returned to that small, upstairs bedroom – this time in beautiful Vancouver. Full-circle as well, because, like most artists, I will periodically circle back to an earlier idea or theme using a different medium.
August 7, 2026
Eleni Smolen
Now Working On
PHOTO BOOK PROJECT
What have I been working on since January 2026 in my new tiny studio here in the West End of Vancouver? Well, actually, as the cliché goes, the world is my studio so I’ve never stopped taking photographs - iPhone and Sony 35mm - everywhere I go: people, dogs, people with their dogs, cityscapes, landscapes, seascapes, trees, forest, beaches, seaweed, shells, geese, gulls and crows, buildings, museums, galleries, public art, bookstores, ferries, islands, artists, friends in their studio, curatorial projects over the years, art I’ve made, people looking at art, patterns, colors, abstractions….there’s always something somewhere.
I started a photo book project to try to organize them which, hopefully, becomes an interesting journal and record of the past several years. If nothing else it will serve as a memento for me to refer back to and reminisce on. Maybe I’ll call it my ‘memory book.’
* I call the new studio ‘full-circle’ because this is how I started – in a small, upstairs bedroom on Vail Road in Gulf Summit, New York, in the mid-nineties , I started to paint for the first time (biophilia series) and over the years my studio went through various iterations in size and location. Now I have returned to that small, upstairs bedroom – this time in beautiful Vancouver. Full-circle as well, because, like most artists, I will periodically circle back to an earlier idea or theme using a different medium.
August 7, 2026
Dialogue in a Variable Key / recent work by Susanna Ronner & Eleni Smolen
Dialogue in a Variable Key
recent work by Susanna Ronner • Eleni Smolen
February 10 - March 3, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, February 10th 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Hudson Beach Glass Gallery 162 Main Street, Beacon, NY
Beacon, NY - Hudson Beach Glass Gallery is pleased to announce Dialogue in a Variable Key, an exhibition of recent work by Susanna Ronner and Eleni Smolen. The artists will include collage and monotype (Ronner) as well as oil painting and accordion-fold books (Smolen). The exhibition runs from February 10th through March 3, 2024 at Hudson Beach Glass Gallery (second floor), 162 Main Street. Hours: Monday through Saturday 10:00 - 6:00 and Sunday 11:00 - 6:00.
During a recent conversation between the two artists, it became apparent that their present studio work shared abundant common ground, especially in their series, Piccola and Little Consolation; color, line, composition and abstraction all played out across either paper, for Ronner, or small wood panel for Smolen. Dialogue in a Variable Key uses these two series as a foundation to incorporate larger works created over the past couple of years.
recent work by Susanna Ronner • Eleni Smolen
February 10 - March 3, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, February 10th 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Hudson Beach Glass Gallery 162 Main Street, Beacon, NY
Beacon, NY - Hudson Beach Glass Gallery is pleased to announce Dialogue in a Variable Key, an exhibition of recent work by Susanna Ronner and Eleni Smolen. The artists will include collage and monotype (Ronner) as well as oil painting and accordion-fold books (Smolen). The exhibition runs from February 10th through March 3, 2024 at Hudson Beach Glass Gallery (second floor), 162 Main Street. Hours: Monday through Saturday 10:00 - 6:00 and Sunday 11:00 - 6:00.
During a recent conversation between the two artists, it became apparent that their present studio work shared abundant common ground, especially in their series, Piccola and Little Consolation; color, line, composition and abstraction all played out across either paper, for Ronner, or small wood panel for Smolen. Dialogue in a Variable Key uses these two series as a foundation to incorporate larger works created over the past couple of years.
Artists' Benefit for Doctors Without Borders
Thirty-five artists from the community donated one hundred percent of their art sales to Doctors Without Borders in this one-day fundraising event - December 9, 2023 - for the humanitarian organization. Thank You Beacon!! xxEleni
Thirty-five artists from the community donated one hundred percent of their art sales to Doctors Without Borders in this one-day fundraising event - December 9, 2023 - for the humanitarian organization. Thank You Beacon!! xxEleni
Beacon Open Studios 2023
happy to be participating in Beacon Open Studios 2023/Upstate Art Weekend
# 8 on the map
July 22 and 23 12-6 PM
Link to map in headline
happy to be participating in Beacon Open Studios 2023/Upstate Art Weekend
# 8 on the map
July 22 and 23 12-6 PM
Link to map in headline
Unfolding Vision Leporellos & Corresponding Work Vol. 1
Beacon, New York – The Lofts at Beacon Art Gallery is pleased to host Unfolding Vision Leporellos & Corresponding Work curated by Eleni Smolen, TheoGanz Studio. The exhibition will run July 8 – August 26, 2023; the opening reception is July 8th from 3:00 – 5:00 pm. Inspired by the luminous leporellos by poet/essayist/artist Etel Adnan (1925-2021), the curator invited eleven artists to create one or several leporellos (accordion style, fold-out books) as well as any related 2D work. The artists are Joseph Ayers, Sunok Chun, Vivien Collens, Ronnie Farley, Matt Frieburghaus, Elana Goren, Beth Haber, Matt Kinney, Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh, Samantha Palmeri and Joe Radoccia.
