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Contact for speaking engagements and residencies about Neo-symbolic Painting
A Demos, Nick's neo-symbolic painting Ouvre' Louvre Ouvre' is 30 in by 40
in fine artist paint on canvas. The ancient meaning of the word Ouvre' is "the finely worked" and Louvre being the
palace and levolors window blinds for light, and the modern meaning of ouvre' is to open. Thus the title of the painting
is "The finely worked Louvre opened to the Light". Nick the creator of a new art genre, Neo-symbolism, published the
definition of Neo-symbolic Art in Gallery Guide New York in Sept of 2004 as " Words juxtaposed to words and the
letters within Words". A Demos, Nick is recognized and listed by ADAGP in France for his intellectual rights as a visual
artist. He is also recognized by the Artists Rights Society of New York at the top of the list with famous American
Artists Andy Warhol, Georgia O'keefee, Jackson Pollock, and Alexander Candler.
He started learning art at an early age of 4 at the Atlanta Artist Center, now the site of the High Museum of Art in
Atlanta. Nick started making found object art with the artistic statement of " putting things together that go together".
He created unique sculptures taking unrelated items and putting them together, where they were unrelated but fit
together. Then Nick began attaching these objects to canvas creating three dimensional paintings. In 1988 Nick
created an art book of fifty printed pages that consisted of Words Juxtaposed to Words and the letters with
words, named THE FIRST BOOK OF NEO-SYMBOLISM. Realizing the public's love was in two dimensional painting, he
set out exploring painting. He studied with Joseph Perrin, and former head of the Art department at Georgia State
University, in the master critique class from 1990 to 2002.
In 1998 Nick began painting the pages of the First Book of Neo-symbolism into paintings. Which became a new genre
of art with recognition in the USA, France, Europe, China, Russia and the whole world. In my art career I moved from
fitting objects to fitting words and ideas together in a way that elevated the words to art in a neo-symbolic state where
the relationship of the words as symbols revealed new and dynamic ways that words have been shaped in culture and
language. Once you have viewed neo-symbolic art, your perception of words will never be the same.
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