FUTURE FAIR 2026
PAUL ANAGNOSTOPOULOS: CATASTERISM
“There’s a starman waiting in the sky” - David Bowie // “Be My Starlight” - Cannons
Feia is proud to present Catasterism, a solo exhibition by Long Island born and NYC based Paul Anagnostopoulos for the 6th edition of Future Fair in New York City. Catasterism holds space for a new body of work by Anagnostopoulos that reimagines the mythic love between Dionysus and Ampelos through a contemporary, queer lens. Drawing from Nonnus’s Dionysiaca and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Anagnostopoulos traces the dual endings of the myth, which both detail Ampelos’s death and Dionysus’s act of immortalization. While the former transforms Ampelos into the first ever grapevine, Ovid instead invokes a catasterism, transfiguring him into the star Vindemitor, the celestial grape-gatherer within the constellation of Virgo.
In Catasterism, this empyrean transformation becomes a metaphor for queer endurance, memory, and transcendence. Through saturated canvases, shaped panels, and painted terracotta vessels, Anagnostopoulos explores how queer love, whether divine or human, survives through metamorphosis. Bringing in an unapologetic contemporary vision, Anagnostopoulos reinterprets the mythologized night sky within the charged atmosphere of queer bars. By doing so, a connection is made between the constellations that map the heavens and the neon signage that directs and gathers a queer community seeking refuge and belonging.
Catasterism draws on Hal Fischer’s Gay Semiotics, embracing camp aesthetics and queer visual codes as tools of reclamation. Dionysus emerges as a patron of transformation, his myth reframed through modern gay culture and autobiographical fragments of Anagnostopoulos’s own life: memories of Mediterranean vineyards, hikes in Hawaii, the kitschy warmth of Italian restaurants, and formative nights under the neon lights at Stonewall and Julius’. Through this convergence of mythology, theory, erotica, and autobiography, Catasterism envisions a radiant continuum between antiquity and the present that bravely blurs the line between the heavens and the queer spaces that illuminate our collective history and light our path forward. Here, Anagnostopoulos makes an offering to queer resilience, while looking up to the stars and reflecting on the eternal cycle of love and loss.
In Catasterism, this empyrean transformation becomes a metaphor for queer endurance, memory, and transcendence. Through saturated canvases, shaped panels, and painted terracotta vessels, Anagnostopoulos explores how queer love, whether divine or human, survives through metamorphosis. Bringing in an unapologetic contemporary vision, Anagnostopoulos reinterprets the mythologized night sky within the charged atmosphere of queer bars. By doing so, a connection is made between the constellations that map the heavens and the neon signage that directs and gathers a queer community seeking refuge and belonging.
Catasterism draws on Hal Fischer’s Gay Semiotics, embracing camp aesthetics and queer visual codes as tools of reclamation. Dionysus emerges as a patron of transformation, his myth reframed through modern gay culture and autobiographical fragments of Anagnostopoulos’s own life: memories of Mediterranean vineyards, hikes in Hawaii, the kitschy warmth of Italian restaurants, and formative nights under the neon lights at Stonewall and Julius’. Through this convergence of mythology, theory, erotica, and autobiography, Catasterism envisions a radiant continuum between antiquity and the present that bravely blurs the line between the heavens and the queer spaces that illuminate our collective history and light our path forward. Here, Anagnostopoulos makes an offering to queer resilience, while looking up to the stars and reflecting on the eternal cycle of love and loss.
Paul Anagnostopoulos
Paul Anagnostopoulos is an artist based in Queens, NY whose paintings explore mythological desire and melancholy through contemporary queer narratives. He graduated with his MFA in Studio Art from CUNY Hunter College in 2023 and his BFA in Studio Art and Art History from New York University in 2013. Anagnostopoulos presented solo exhibitions at Dinner Gallery, Leslie-Lohman Project Space, and GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art Archives, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, RISD, and Yale University. Anagnostopoulos has been a resident at Vermont Studio Center, the Wassaic Project, and the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists. He is among the first recipients of the LI Grants for the Arts Artist Fellowship Award, distributed by the Huntington Arts Council.
Feia
Founded by husband-duo Thomas Martinez Pilnik and Jake Cavallo, Feia celebrates failure, brings people together, and curates beautiful spaces with unconventional features. Feia, meaning Ugly in Portuguese, is more than just an insult. It expresses curiosity, intrigue, excitement, novelty, beauty, disgust, and everything in between. Feia is currently building a brand new 1200 square foot gallery in Los Angeles to serve as its permanent exhibition site.
Paul Anagnostopoulos is an artist based in Queens, NY whose paintings explore mythological desire and melancholy through contemporary queer narratives. He graduated with his MFA in Studio Art from CUNY Hunter College in 2023 and his BFA in Studio Art and Art History from New York University in 2013. Anagnostopoulos presented solo exhibitions at Dinner Gallery, Leslie-Lohman Project Space, and GoggleWorks Center for the Arts. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art Archives, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, RISD, and Yale University. Anagnostopoulos has been a resident at Vermont Studio Center, the Wassaic Project, and the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists. He is among the first recipients of the LI Grants for the Arts Artist Fellowship Award, distributed by the Huntington Arts Council.
Feia
Founded by husband-duo Thomas Martinez Pilnik and Jake Cavallo, Feia celebrates failure, brings people together, and curates beautiful spaces with unconventional features. Feia, meaning Ugly in Portuguese, is more than just an insult. It expresses curiosity, intrigue, excitement, novelty, beauty, disgust, and everything in between. Feia is currently building a brand new 1200 square foot gallery in Los Angeles to serve as its permanent exhibition site.