Grants + Awards + Certificates
2021 Best-of-the-Best Red Dot: Design Concept Award
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2021 Nasdaq Competition
2017 SCAD Academic Honors Scholarship
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2017 SCAD Achievement Honor Scholarship
2016 Cal-Earth Super Adobe Workshop Certificate
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2016 Permaculture Design Certificate
Waffle Gradients
2020 - Current
An ongoing series exploring three-dimensional textiles that stimulate a natural habitat within interior environments.
Using color as a communicator, each piece becomes a sensory experience as relief waffle patterns rise and fall in a gradient fiber landscape; a window that provides a vista of meditation where humanity can dive deeper into the collectively undiscovered self.
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All work is made using AVL Dobby Looms
Design Miami: Experience Chromatic Reverie
Artist Anya Molyviatis (B.F.A., fibers, 2021) showcases a new series of her hallmark three-dimensional weavings within a site-specific installation that envelops the space in dynamic multicolor gradients and evokes the complexity of her process on the loom. Redefining a centuries-old weaving practice, Molyviatis invents ethereal textile works woven with intricate waffle patterns that leverage the curiosities of color theory and invite new dimensions into the viewer’s perception.
Featured alongside:
An expert inventive décor, Eny Lee Parker (M.F.A., furniture design, 2018; M.A., furniture design, 2016; B.F.A., interior design, 2011) creates furnishings that celebrate texture and detail, combining unorthodox materials in bespoke objects of vertu that transform any space.
Celebrated tastemaker Christopher John Rogers (B.F.A., fashion, 2016) partners with family-owned furniture design studio and manufacturer Orior, led by Ciaran McGuigan (B.F.A., film and television, 2013), to deliver a seating line that pays whimsical reverence to traditional Irish fabrication.
Elevate
Ivester Contemporary is proud to present Elevate, a collection of 11 unique weavings by Anya Molyviatis. This exhibition marks the artist's second solo show at the gallery. Elevate, a subseries of Molyviatis' Bloom collection, explores her ongoing fascination with transforming material and color into expressions of weightlessness.
In this body of work, Molyviatis weaves mohair and cotton into intricate, three-dimensional textiles that challenge material weight. By isolating and exploring subtle variations of a single hue, each piece embodies the purity and resonance of its chosen color. The collection underscores how environments shape human sensibilities, with these woven forms not only awakening the senses but also functioning as natural sound absorbers. Through these pieces, Molyviatis invites viewers to reconsider how materials can inspire a sense of wonder and levity in their most elevated forms.
Submerge
In her debut solo museum exhibition, Anya Molyviatis (b.1994, Geneva, Switzerland; SCAD B.F.A., fibers, 2021) presents a new series of her signature three-dimensional textiles exploring relationships between light and materiality. The exhibition includes Molyviatis' largest weavings to date, simultaneously exquisite in their intricate construction and powerful in their grand visual impact. In these works featuring a diamond waffle pattern developed by the artist, Molyviatis uses both the physical structure of interwoven threads and the visual cues of color juxtapositions to convey an enhanced sense of depth. To create each work, Molyviatis weaves hand-dyed cotton with mohair wool, meticulously threading thousands of fine fibers through 40 harnesses of a vintage loom - one of only 20 in existence worldwide. The resulting works harmoniously blend technology and craft, with compositions that augment our perception of weight, density, and sound through awe-inspiring designs. Enveloping the gallery in soft gradients of texture and color, Molyviatis offers visitors an extraordinary setting for contemplating and reflection.