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GREEK ARTISTS IN NEW YORK

Mark Hadjipateras

Courtesy of Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York

Born and raised in London, Hadjipateras was sent at the age of 9 to boarding school in Greece and the feelings of homesickness that he experienced are related to his “dream cities" -- abstract architectural forms laid out in grids -- strange and mysterious places.

After his formal education in England, earning a degree in Fine Arts at Liverpool Polytechnic, he moved to New York and his earlier work from the mid 1980s is a figurative expressionism characterized by private symbolism. By the late 80s his work had become semi-abstract and biomorphic. During the 1990s he concentrated on sculpture, using specially designed sculptural objects as the subjects of photographic works. These works are imaginative, amusing, at times iconic.

In 1999 he created the sets and costumes for a production of Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae at Barnard College.