Eleanna Anagnos (b. 1980, Evanston, IL) is a New York-based painter. Her work explores the nature of human perception and our awareness of space. She insists upon the handmade as a means of asserting a relationship to the body and the universal human condition. Her work transcends objectness, in other words, she creates work that surpasses the viewer’s understanding or expectations of what an object is. It is meant to elicit a physiological response where subjectivity, perception, phenomenology, and the conscious act of seeing are addressed. Eleanna has exhibited in the US and abroad at: The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City; The National Hellenic Museum, Chicago, IL; South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN; 68 Projects, Berlin, Germany, among others. She has received awards from Yaddo; BAU Institute; The Anderson Ranch, The Atlantic Center for the Arts and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. She earned her MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art (2005) and a BA with honors and distinction from Kenyon College with a concentration in Women’s and Gender Studies (2002). Eleanna is a Director at Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective located in Brooklyn, NY (which was profiled in the New York Times in April 2017.) Her most recent curatorial project, debuting the work of Monica Palma, Wish Me Good Luck, was reviewed in the February issue of Art in America. Recently, a profile discussing Eleanna's practice was written by Kelly McCafferty and published in The Coastal Post this March.