
Mixed Media Artist Chris Georgalas | Carolina Impact
Clip: Season 10 Episode 25 | 3m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
A mixed media artist who uses different materials and found objects to create his artwork.
Meet mixed media artist Chris Georgalas, born in Bogota, Colombia, before being adopted by an American family as a baby and growing up in Minnesota. He later pursued his college education in Fine Arts, including a final semester in Florence, Italy, before settling in NYC full-time. Chris and his family moved to Charlotte in 2018.
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Mixed Media Artist Chris Georgalas | Carolina Impact
Clip: Season 10 Episode 25 | 3m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
Meet mixed media artist Chris Georgalas, born in Bogota, Colombia, before being adopted by an American family as a baby and growing up in Minnesota. He later pursued his college education in Fine Arts, including a final semester in Florence, Italy, before settling in NYC full-time. Chris and his family moved to Charlotte in 2018.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(bright music) - There are no rules.
It's like music.
People tend to like repetition.
So when you think of something, don't think of it as a single.
Think of like, you know what?
I'm not gonna have one thing.
I'm gonna have a ton.
I'm gonna go crazy with it.
(bright music) My name is Arthur Christopher Georgalas.
I'm from New York, originally born in Bogota, Columbia.
I am obsessed with creating, painting, sculpting, just in the arts in general.
I've been creating since, probably since I was like six or seven years old.
My folks gave me a box of air dry clay and some paints when I was a kid.
And I just started making characters that I liked.
So you see some of the comics have everything still intact, but a lot of times I'll go through and I'll find pages that just stand out for me.
So when I start making these paintings, a lot of times I would rather it flat.
The piece comes out more interesting that way, but sometimes it doesn't.
This piece started off with this wooden base that I had found actually at a workplace.
And I had found a frame, the screen frame somewhere and I thought that this umbrella would look interesting there.
And then I found this old clock that I thought would be kind of funny hanging from the umbrella.
And it became more of a sculpture.
If I could describe my art in three words, fluid, unpredictable, and honest.
(bright music) My favorite piece would be one that I actually had just found a home for it recently.
And it was similar to, similar to this piece back here, but I've been doing these sort of portraits with the shirts that I wear and on it was written, "Kid Icarus" and there were these two boxing gloves to the sides and I, and that was the first piece that I didn't have to draw the arms for it.
By seeing the piece, you can see, it, you kind of fill in the blanks.
Don't forget to, you know, be creative and don't be hard on yourself for that, you know, and don't be afraid of expressing yourself in that way.
That's what I would say to upcoming artists.
Like, don't be afraid.
And if you're not ready to share your work, that's your thing, you know?
When it's all said and done, I guess I would like my legacy to be that my work lives on.
And when people look at the artwork, they realize that it was something that I was very passionate about and I'm grateful other people appreciate that and found homes for it.
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