On Wednesday., October. 4, at 6 pm , join Judith Allen-Efstathiou for an artist talk and tour of Diagonal Latitudes, our current two-person exhibition of her own work and that of her daughter, Eirene Efstathiou. Judith’s book, Mapping the Walk, which features images of her artwork in this exhibition, will be available for purchase and signing.

Mapping the Walk is an archive of 50 original graphite and gouache drawings on mulberry paper drawn from 2011 to 2020. Each of the drawings is a composite image based on observations and drawings by the artist of flora growing along a single ancient footpath on the Cycladic Island of Kea, Greece. The footpath once stretched to the north tip of the island, however, in recent years paved roadways have destroyed all but the small section leading from the village of Ioulis, passing the ancient Lion of Kea, and ending at the paved road just beyond the Benjamin Spring. The composite drawings represent walks taken each month along the remaining footpath, as a way to honor and document the path itself via its plants; at once the most consistent feature of the path but at the same time the most ephemeral and changing.