page_title: James Georgopoulos
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: James Georgopoulos / Work
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a photo of a piece by James Georgopoulos to be used on his wiki: James Georgopoulos
context_page_description: James Georgopoulos is a Greek-American visual artist. Georgopoulos works with painting, sculpture, and video installation to address a relationship between highly skilled production techniques, pop culture, and taboo iconography. His work is in various collections, including the Panavision USA Collection. He lives and works in Venice, California.
context_section_description: In his paintings, Georgopoulos employs an assortment of subject matter, including guns used in blockbuster action films, cameras used to film classics, glossy automobile finishes, pornographic abstraction, and sexuality in art history to address issues of copyright protection, censorship, and the highly designed objects used in the creation of popular culture.
  Using techniques that combine the artist’s intention, Georgopoulos has consistently worked with imagery that is generally considered off-limits. His 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.
  Georgopoulos' paintings are meant to emulate the flat, transparent texture of the automobile-obsessed Finish Fetish artists of the 1960s such as Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, and Craig Kaufman, while his work with pornographic images—which, despite his tendency to use organic pixilated techniques, have been banned from galleries—calls to mind the controversial pieces that landed Wallace Berman in jail in the 1960s.
  Georgopoulos has been featured in several publications including Flaunt, Bullett Magazine, Treats Magazine, and LA Weekly. He has exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at Photo L.A. 2014. He 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.
caption: "sleeper agent,"unique silver gelatin, acrylic polymer, gesso, epoxy resin, automotive finishes, wood, aluminium, composite panel, 40 x 60 x 2 inches (101.6 x 152.4 x 5.0 cm), Actual gun used by Angelina Jolie in the Columbia Pictures feature film, SALT (2010)
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