Hellenic Heads

An Athens-born, Greek-American artist, George Petrides studied Classical Greek literature, philosophy and history at Harvard College in Cambridge in the 1980s. Raised in a family of artists and business people, he was exposed to art and culture as a child in Greece and then in New York, after his family moved to New York when he was three years old. Establishing a successful career as an investment banker on Wall Street, he began to spend his spare time pursuing a developing passion by taking drawing, painting and sculpture classes at the New York Studio School, Art Students League in New York and the Academie de la Grande Chaumière, where Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder and Isamu Noguchi had once studied, in Paris. By 2017, Petrides was finally ready to take a leap of faith and decided to dedicate himself to making art full time.

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