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Gerasimos Floratos

Gerasimos Floratos (b. 1986) lives and works in New York City. Floratos grew up enmeshed within the overwhelming sensorial experience that is Times Square, the pounding commercial and touristic heart of the city, a place the artist refers to as “the center of the center”. To this day, his studio is stationed there, where he continues to work and live. Surrounded by the restlessness of midtown Manhattan, Floratos uses the hyper-charged atmosphere of his neighborhood as a springboard for deeper explorations of the urban matrix and the human subconscious. Impastoed paintings that are at once luminous and torpidly congested feature a rotating cast of anthropomorphic creatures: sauntering pedestrians, skyscraper bouquets, honking commuters, trudging oversize shoes, and hands with gigantic mushrooming fingers. Laden with the sonic qualities of city life, Floratos’ psycho-figurative bodies simultaneously map the internal workings of the artist's mind, and the visceral experience of his physical environment in what he describes as a form of “psychogeography”, a term borrowed from Guy Debord, a founding member of the Situationist International movement of the 1960s. By examining the ways the urban environment shapes our lived experience, Floratos captures the chaotic and anxious pace of the city, creating dense spaces crowded by larger than life subjects that radiate the oblivious audacity of big city personas.

Selected artworks

  • Gerasimos Floratos,                                      Sitting inside the ear, 2020

    Gerasimos Floratos Sitting inside the ear, 2020

    Oil and collage on canvas
    157.5 x 157.5 cm
    62 x 62 in

  • Gerasimos Floratos,                                      Untitled, 2020

    Gerasimos Floratos Untitled, 2020

    Watercolor, acrylic, marker on paper
    35.6 x 27.9 cm
    14 x 11 in

  • Gerasimos Floratos,                                      Untitled, 2020

    Gerasimos Floratos Untitled, 2020

    Acrylic, marker, collage on paper
    27.9 x 27.9 cm
    11 X 11 in

  • Gerasimos Floratos,                                      Untitled, 2020

    Gerasimos Floratos Untitled, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    152.4 x 243.8 cm
    60 X 96 in

  • Gerasimos Floratos,                                      Aurie sync, 2020

    Gerasimos Floratos Aurie sync, 2020

    Oil, acyrlic, collage on canvas
    182.9 x 182.9 cm
    72 X 72 in

  • Gerasimos Floratos,                                      Eating noise, 2020

    Gerasimos Floratos Eating noise, 2020

    Oil and acrylic on canvas
    213.4 x 167.6 cm
    84 X 66 in

  • Gerasimos Floratos,                                      Treehouse, 2020

    Gerasimos Floratos Treehouse, 2020

    Oil and collage on canvas
    182,9 x 182,9 cm
    72 x 72 inches

  • Gerasimos Floratos,                                      Auric sync, 2020

    Gerasimos Floratos Auric sync, 2020

    Oil and acrylic on canvas
    154. 9 x 217. 2 cm
    61 X 85 1/2 in

  • Gerasimos Floratos,                                      2 Measurers, 2021

    Gerasimos Floratos 2 Measurers, 2021

    Oil and acrylic on canvas
    182.9 x 182.9 cm
    72 x 72 in

  • Gerasimos Floratos,                                      Untitled, 2021

    Gerasimos Floratos Untitled, 2021

    Oil and acrylic on canvas
    121.9 x 91.4 cm
    48 x 36 in

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