Paul Giovanopoulos was born Nov. 11, 1939 in Kastoria, Greece. He has since made his mark as an American artist, having attended the New York University and School of Visual Arts, before obtaining US citizenship in 1961 at 22. Paul still lives in New York, and has exhibited work across the US and Europe. His work is collected by such luminaries as Steve Wynn, James Cameron, Sylvester Stallone, and Michael Bloomberg. His work is featured within more than 50 private and corporate collections, including the NY Public Library and Harvard's JFK School of Government. Among his many corporate clients are Random House, Rosenthal China, United Airlines, Playboy Magazine, Del Rey Books, Warner Books, and Ritzenhoff AG. He has also designed covers for at least 5 novels. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Giovanopoulos) Paul Giovanopoulos‘ artwork is defined by complex investigation of simple objects. His original vision involved a carefully composed repetitive grid of panels as the base of a painting. Giovanopoulos then interpreted each panel, transforming the object within through “visual signatures” from art history, cultural icons and concept. In making art this way, he became at once creator, collector and curator of each canvas. Continuing this idea of transformation, Giovanopoulos has gone on to create large single image paintings that involve a similar thought process. By melding the aforementioned interpretive elements into one visual, he conveys a disconcerting sense of familiar and unknown, anarchy and order. His sense of visual mischief has also led Giovanopoulos to create a series of Group paintings, wherein real people throughout history, be they famous or notorious, celebrated or reviled, are surrealistically combined in one canvas. Intellectually, these groups are impossible, but Giovanopoulos not only makes them work, he makes it all seem perfectly logical. After all, who better to play... (http://stmaryriverside.org/school/smr-ca/paul-giovanopoulos/) undefined

More on Google