Dodd Alum Solo Exhibition at Tif Sigfrids

Tif Sigfrids will feature a solo exhibition with works by Dodd alum Andy Giannakakis (BFA 2012). The Gypsy will open with a reception on Saturday, October 13 from 4-6 pm and remain on view through December 1.

Giannakakis’s paintings are like essays in the original sense of the term: they are technical trials in which optical devices taken from the history of oil painting (the artist is a formally trained painter) are reduced to their functional elements and applied again without the subtext of their original meaning; they are tools for thinking that anyone can use; and even if there is nothing spontaneous about them, they meander as the solution to one problem casts the outline of the next into relief. With the complexity of their construction, they appear to gain a life of their own, and they begin to play tricks on their maker. That is usually how he knows they are finished.

– Niels Henriksen

A number Giannakakis’s paintings have been underway for so long that they remained unchanged in his studio for years before he brought them to their present state, sometimes in a matter of weeks. Two of the works in the Tif Sigfrids exhibition were begun five years ago, when the artist was living in Athens, Georgia. They have since traveled to Los Angeles, where he is currently based, before returning to Athens for this exhibition.

Giannakakis (n. 1988 Valdosta, Georgia) lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds a BFA from the University of Georgia and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. His work is currently in a group exhibition titled “The Earth Axis Tilt Shifts” at Park View Gallery in Brussels, Belgium.