Dimitra Papageorgiou
Typical artist.....tortured, pained, confused.....Never stopped creating, dreaming, traveling and looking for my own 'Perfect Wave' !!!
Biography
I am a self taught artist living in Thessaloniki Greece. My true passion has always been painting and creating. Mostly I am painting original oil and acrylic paintings on stretched canvas and on old wood pieces or driftwood. I am working with mixed technique using palette knives and brushes.
Our visible world, the natural landscape, the endless blue of the sea, the summer breeze, the blinding reflections, the waves crashing on the sea shore. The ruby-red freshly blooming rose, the silver-green leaves of the olive trees shining in the moonlight. From all these miracles occurring around us daily, I am getting energy and inspiration. Vision captures the image, landscape, human, objects, shadow, light, colors. With my imagination I can see my object more freely and looking for a different form that will reflects and expresses my own perception. Creating a new image influenced from my personal experience, my character and the mood of the moment.
I am trying through my artworks to express my inner need to transform a personal experience and thereby to set me free from it. Ally with my unbridled imagination, juggling between reality and dream, completely engrossed in my paintings. In any project, big or small, important or insignificant I give all my energy.
Influences
Van Gogh, El Greco, Modigliani, Picasso, Edvard Munch, Pollock, De Cooning, Georgia o Keeffe
Education
2020-2020 Coursera - In the Studio: Postwar Abstract Painting by The Museum of Modern Art - Online course Thessaloniki, Greece
2020-2020 Coursera - What Is Contemporary Art? by The Museum of Modern Art- Online course Thessaloniki, Greece
2020-2020 Coursera -Modern Art & Ideas by The Museum of Modern Art - Online course Thessaloniki, Greece
1986-1990 Technological Institute - Department of Tourism and Management Thessaloniki, Greece
1983-1988 Goethe Institute - German language studies Thessaloniki, Greece
1978-1984 Anatolia College High School Thessaloniki, Greece
The artist at work
Collective Expositions
2022 "Light and Darkness" - Art Flow Gallery, Palaiochora, Crete, Greece
2022 Art Fair Parma, Parma, Italy
2022 Vernice Art Fair, Mega Art Gallery Forli, Italy
2022 1a Edizione del Premio Internazionale d’Arte «CORCHIANO L’ANTICA FESCENNIUM» Galleria d’arte MEGA ART Corchiano, Italy
2021 Mare Nostrum – Colectiva de Arte Contemporaneo, Galeria de Arte Gaudi Madrid, Spain
2021 Festiarte – III Festival International de Arte Contemporaneo - Galeria de Arte Gaudi Marbella Costa del Sol, Spain
2021 Opening Borders in the Art World - Exhibition of Contemporary Art - Kunstraum Gerdi Gutperle Gallery Vierheim, Germany
2019 The Sea, my everlasting love – Malou Art Gallery, March 2019 Athens, Greece
2019 Art meets Food. Tradition and Innovation - Malou Artr Gallery Athens, Greece
2018 Brush – painted thoughts - Malou Art Gallery Athens, Greece
2018 Travel to Ancient Greece - Malou Art Gallery Athens, Greece
2018 Ancient Greek Mythology and the Modern World - Malou Art Gallery Athens, Greece
2018 Labyrinth - Malou Art Gallery Athens, Greece
2017 Woman....Man.....Love over the centuries - Malou Art Gallery Athens, Greece
2017 Color Expression – Malou Art Gallery Athens, Greece
2017 The sea comes out of a hidden voice. Voice coming into our heart - Malou Art Gallery Athens, Greece
2017 I am a woman.....I exist or I don't – Malou Art Gallery Athens, Greece
2017 Cities of imagination and reality – Malou Art Gallery Athens, Greece
2016 Two voices, past and present - Malou Art Gallery Cronwell Resort Sermilia, Chalkidiki, Greece
2015 Dialoge between artist and viewer - Malou Art Gallery Athens, Greece
