GERASIMOS FLORATOS
Tract of lumination
2020
Oil, acrylic and collage on canvas
72 by 72 3/8 in. 182.9 by 183.8 cm.
MI&N 16426
$32,000
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
Tract of lumination
2020
Oil, acrylic and collage on canvas
72 by 72 3/8 in. 182.9 by 183.8 cm.
MI&N 16426
$32,000
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
T.B.T.
2019-20
Oil and acrylic on canvas
72 by 72 1/4 in. 182.9 by 183.5 cm.
MI&N 16442
SOLD
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
Curbside shoreline
2019-20
Oil and acrylic on canvas
52 1/4 by 88 in. 132.7 by 223.5 cm.
MI&N 16424
SOLD
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
Rewire own coordinates
2020
Oil, acrylic and collage on canvas
48 by 72 1/2 in. 121.9 by 184.2 cm.
MI&N 16422
SOLD
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
Take it all in, let it all out 3
2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas
72 1/4 by 72 1/4 in. 183.5 by 183.5 cm.
MI&N 16433
$32,000
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
Untitled
2019-20
Oil and acrylic on canvas
62 1/8 by 62 in. 157.8 by 157.5 cm.
MI&N 16427
SOLD
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
Heartburn without a teacher
2019-20
Oil and acrylic on canvas
62 by 62 in. 157.5 by 157.5 cm.
MI&N 16434
SOLD
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
T.B.T.
2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas
88 by 104 3/4 in. 223.5 by 266.1 cm.
MI&N 16444
$45,000
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
Untitled
2019
Ink, watercolor, correction fluid and marker on paper
24 by 18 in. 61 by 45.7 cm.
MI&N 16281
SOLD
GERASIMOS FLORATOS
Untitled
2019
Watercolor and marker on paper
24 1/8 by 18 in. 61.3 by 45.7 cm.
MI&N 16280
$6,000
Through a seamless combination of cartoon-like imagery and dense layers of thick, textural marks, Gerasimos Floratos’s paintings reflect the inner psyche of the city and its denizens—an exercise in exteriorization that, in its visual translation, bridges the terrestrial with the ethereal; figuration with abstraction; and the grotesque with the everyday. Painted quickly and arranged on self-made stretchers, the artist’s canvases present a pulsating and turbulent narrative of street dwellers, performers, commuters, drivers and tourists that, at times, includes himself.
The strong autobiographical component that informs Floratos’s practice is often complemented by a corporeal dimension, with anatomical features such as guts and intestines blending with sneakers, hats and headphones to create hallucinogenic portraits of anonymous figures. This conflation of internal and external body parts, or mind and body, echoes the wider dichotomy between the artist’s highly localized perspective and the globalized world that it reflects. Guided by an autodidact model of creative independence that draws associations to Art Brut, Floratos seeks to capture the elusiveness and immediacy of what it means to be a New Yorker.
