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Steven Papadopoulos
Visual Artist
'Fly on the wall' at http://www.tmkolawyers.com/gallery360/
A group exhibition at Gallery 360 featuring ’ Sarah Slean, Doug Brown, and Steven Papadopoulos’. Unfortunately I will not be present as I am in Scotland attending the Glasgow School of Arts for my MFA. However, this the 2nd exhibition at 360 and it has been known for great opportunity to have a good time.
Hope you can make it and tell me all about it.
Graphite, and acrylic medium on wood
IDLE HANDS By Steven Papadopoulos My investigation lies between modernism, the modern-world and the Grotesque. For this exhibition I have combined four different bodies of work, which approaches the subject of the Grotesque and beauty from several different angles. I work the grotesque in juxtaposition to the urban, through ideas surrounding the organic and practices of vanity by using hair, insects and the industrial significance of the horse. The juxtaposition of the organic against the background of industry has driven these bodies of work to explore the relevance of industry, whether it’s a machine, a fly, a horse or the combination of these objects and their significance to each other. This body of work has taken four years to explore, re-investigating the Grotesque each time from a different perspective. My most current body of work has been developed using a process of layers upon layers of either clear gesso or mylar, on top of every drawn or painted layer. This helps to create physical depth and acts as a form of construction to the mechanical forms. This process also gives me the opportunity to disassemble the image and strategically reassemble it, in order to evoke possibility and function.
Spazio Dell' Arte Gallery
‘Idle hands’ By: Steven Papadopoulos
‘Untitled’ 2011
4’x2’
Acrylic medium & oil paint
Cognitive Machinery
This series was constructed to expose urban sighting. Machinery and inanimate objects such as unfinished building infrastructure are disassembled and stripped of functionality. Then, they are strategically reassembled in order to evoke possibility and potential within the viewer’s mind. The series departs from my previous work in its unique process and inspiration. Drawing from still photographs, photocopied transfers are left to seep into the rigid support. Each subsequent layer is partitioned using a clear acrylic gesso. I then return to my signature creative style finishing with an oil base used to convey atmospheric perspective accompanied by natural physical depth.
The work in this section is some of my most recent work that were entered into the annual ‘Square Foot show’ 2010.
’John’
-Pencil, photocopies on 4 layers of frosted Mylar.
’The Hair Machines’
-Pencil, photocopies and oil paint
‘Sorry for the inconvenience’
-Acrylic paint, Mylar, on printed paper
In the studio 2006. Working on ‘Tria Megalos Mygas’. This piece was selected for the ‘Elixir’ show at the Steam Whistle gallery.
