12 Facts About James Georgopoulos

James Georgopoulos's work is in various collections, including the Panavision USA Collection.

James Georgopoulos was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, and began creating visual works at the age of 14 while at Cardigan Mountain School.

James Georgopoulos's father was an art collector and became friends with many of the artists he collected, exposing Georgopoulos to their studios at a young age.

James Georgopoulos relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1990s to work in the film industry with directors such as Oliver Stone and Zack Snyder, which eventually led to a career as an art director for commercials and music videos, including Pink Floyd's Take it Back.

James Georgopoulos's work with weaponry, film, automobiles, and pornography is an exploration into male identity, and a self-inquiry into the reasons these objects and subjects are charged with the historical residue they contain.

James Georgopoulos has been featured in numerous publications including Flaunt, Bullett Magazine, Treats Magazine, and LA Weekly.

James Georgopoulos was included in Phillips de Pury's contemporary sale in 2012, and was featured as the artist of honor in 2012 at the Art of Elysium Fifth Annual Heaven Gala.

James Georgopoulos's series Guns of Cinema, a compilation of gun images from iconic motion pictures and television includes screen-used guns used by Al Pacino in Scarface, Lady Gaga in her music video "Born This Way", John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, John Malkovich in RED and Angelina Jolie in Salt.

Similar to Guns of Cinema, the Cameras of Cinema series expresses Georgopoulos' affinity for the film and television industry as he photographed a number of motion picture and television cameras which were used to make Titanic, Star Wars, Michael Jackson's Thriller music video, James Bond, Kill Bill, and Apocalypto, among others.

Identity plays a role in a series of sculptural retellings of Greek mythologies that James Georgopoulos began working on at the end of 2013.

James Georgopoulos is developing a series of sculptures that include video installations housed in shaped automobile frames, unveiled to the public in fall 2014 with Vacation.

James Georgopoulos explores ways to deconstruct the car in a non-traditional visual form so the viewer can appreciate the massive size and power of a car but in the confines of an interior space.