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Yorgo Alexopoulos' Living Pictures

Yorgo Alexopoulos has built a career on manipulations and interpretations of the 2D image. A graffiti artist turned early adopter of digital tools like Photoshop, the axis of Alexopolous' creative life shifted a decade ago when called to work on...

Yorgo Alexopoulos has built a career on manipulations and interpretations of the 2D image. A graffiti artist turned early adopter of digital tools like Photoshop, the axis of Alexopolous' creative life shifted a decade ago when called to work on the acclaimed 2002 Robert Evans documentary The Kid Stays In The Picture. The story of Evans, a legendary Hollywood producer, posed an interesting challenge: how do you breathe movement and life into still photos?

The solution, the now-ubiquitous 2.5d technique utilized by Alexopolous and his team, unlocked new photographic dimensions not only for the movie going audience, but for Alexopolous as well. “I started to look through my entire body of work…and I realized I could do this with my photographs and I could do this with my paintings," says Alexopoulos in video above.

Though he currently works with software more than spray paint, Alexopolous' graffiti roots are still apparent in the bold patterns and color palettes of new media works. In Transmigrations (below), a 24 channel video installation with looped soundtrack, the works are displayed like traditional paintings on the walls of Cristin Tierney Gallery.