Ellen Pavlakos
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Ellen Pavlakos’ commitment to art began with studies at the Arsakeion in Athens, Greece, her birthplace. She grew up where sculpture was very visible in her everyday life. Ellen played around archaic sculptures and steles of classical grave reliefs in Kerameikos, which had a profound effect on her awareness and love of art. In the U.S., she studied under Bruno Lucchesi & Ruth Nickelson at the National Academy of Design, New York, NY- 1980-1981. And at the Norton Museum School of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida with Luis Montoya - 1976-1979. The human figure is Pavlakos’ vehicle of expression. Human emotions and experience inspire her work. A large part of her work is the female figure. She is particularly interested in the symbolism of it, which are life and the future. Pavlakos has exhibited and competed in many statewide and national competitions, as well as in Paris, France, Athens and Thessalonica, Greece, and Nicosia, Cyprus.