Peter Agrafiotis, Painter
“Every detail seems to vibrate with meaning.”
– Boston Magazine

Peter Agrafiotis, doghenge

"Trees wrenched by feeling - but still celebratory vis-à-vis nature's richness, fecundity, power and the acknowledgement that nature always bats last."
- CARL BELZ, Director Emeritus, Rose Art Museum
THREE NEW SERIES
Red Masses

Black Forms, Gray Form

Forces Within & Without 4

Cairo, Molotov Light

Forces: Within/Without

Pale Fire
Cairo, Molotov Light
Pillars 1
Pale Fire 3


About Previous Series:

Iconic Trees: "This work is strong stuff, truly iconic. It's as if you've burned your way through to some other form of light or apprehension."

- BARON WORMSER, Poet Laureate Emeritus, Maine

Interiors: ". . .remarkable as constructions of color and shape . . .numinous presences, both real and supernatural."

- ALISON LURIE, Author. Catalog essay - Pucker Gallery, Boston

Wisteria: ". . .gems that hypnotize . . .they seem like animated versions of states of mind."

- ANN BEATTIE, Author. Catalog essay - Pucker Gallery, Boston

Abstracts: "There's a texture to these pictures, a dripping lushness or sultriness, a jungle density."

- CARL BELZ, Director Emeritus, Rose Art Museum

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IN BRIEF: Peter Agrafiotis' work is included in the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, the Fuller Museum of Art, Boston Stock Exchange, Columbia Motion Pictures, and over a hundred other corporate and private collections. Agrafiotis' paintings have been reproduced and/or written about in Newsweek, the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Art News, Art New England, American Artist and Greenwich Time. Catalog essays have been written by author and New Yorker Magazine contributor, Ann Beattie, and by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Alison Lurie. Agrafiotis has shown at the National Academy of Design and has been nominated four times for awards in painting at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.