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Vika
was born in the village of Paliokastro, in the northern Greek region
of Thessaly, and grew up in Berlin and Athens. She went to the United States to
go to college, receiving a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in
1972. Most of her sculpture is cast bronze, but some is ceramic or mixed
media. Other work includes drawings, paintings, and earthworks. Vika
endeavors to have the richness and excitement of living and loving in
her work. She believes in an art with courage which takes position against
the commercial exploitation of art and against self-promotion for money
and shallow glories, art being the greatest celebration of human freedom
in all of life.
Vika
was co-founder of the Sculptors' Union of Greece (based in Athens) in
1973 and is currently a member of the Administrative Council of the
Union. Her bronze works are part of the permanent collection of the
Greek Ministry of Culture, and one large piece, "Hero", is
on permanent exhibit at Pandeios University, Athens, Greece. The bronze
sculpture, Third World, was presented as a gift to visiting ex-Chancellor
of Germany, Willy Brandt in 1990. Her many favorable press reviews
include one in the Athenian Kathimerini in which the Greek critic,
Dora Rogan, wrote: "Very dynamic, a fountainhead talent, Vika reminds
us that there still exists even in rare instances the great art of sculpture."
Her
selected exhibitions include: annual group shows of the Sculptors' Union
of Greece, Athens, Greece; Two Person Show, the DADA Gallery, Athens,
Greece; the Greek National Garden, Athens, Greece; the two all-Greek
Panhellenic exhibitions, Athens, Greece; Solo Exhibition, Sevo Studio,
Athens, Greece; Solo Exhibition, the Syn Gallery, Athens, Greece; Solo
Exhibition, Pleiades Gallery, Athens, Greece; and three Solo Exhibitions,
Kreonidis Gallery.
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