George Anastasios Magalios

Who is George Anastasios Magalios?

George Anastasios Magalios is a contemporary artist, philosopher, and founder of George Magalios Studios who was born in 1967 in Montreal, Canada. George Anastasios Magalios is a multi-disciplinary visual artist who makes work in fields such as painting, photography, sculpture, and performance art. Magalios is an unusual artist because of his use of unique names and identities for each body of work: George Magalios, Georges Ducharme, Will Swinburne, Giorgio Fati, and Jorge Griego.

Magalios bases all of his work and thought on the ground palette, a concept and form he has developed from his research into pre-historic cave painting. The ground palette is both a philosophical foundation and an aesthetic way of thinking that attempts to distill language and ideas down to their essences. In articles and various websites Magalios list his influences as Led Zeppelin, Willie Mays, Tim Tebow and his parents, Virginia and Elias Magalios.

He has exhibited in exhibitions in New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and other cities across North America as well as in Athens and across Europe and continues his practice today in West Palm Beach, Florida.