Dallas gallery showcases Greek painters



Decorazon Gallery in Dallas, Texas, showcased recently two living painting legends from Greece & Cyprus, Konstantinos Zannetos and Bill Komodore. Curated by Panos Dimitropoulos and Iasonas Kontovrakis, the exhibition was held from February 13 to March 9.

Born in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1981, Konstantinos Zannetos attended painting lessons from an early age. In 2002, he began formal studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he studied under Professor Zacharias Arvantis and graduated cum laude in 2007. Since completing his degree, Zannetos has been preparing work for solo exhibitions and exploring his interest in flight-of-the-imagination theatrical scenery.

Many of Konstantinos Zannetos’ paintings can be found in private collections in Cyprus, Greece, Poland, Austria, France and the USA. He has exhibited at the Cyprus House in New York City (2008), The Aerides Gallery, Athens, Greece (2008), Little Gallery, Nowy Sacz, Poland (2008), the Lanitis Foundation, Linassol, Cyprus (2009), and also in 2009, won second place at the Champis Tsaggaris Foundation for etching. And already this year (2010), the Cyprus National Gallery purchased a painting for their permanent collection.

Bill Komodore was born in Athens, Greece in 1932. He eventually moved to the United States and received his formal education at Tulane University, where his professors included George Rickey, Mark Rothko and David Smith. He earned his B.A. in 1955 and M.F.A. in 1957.

Today Komodore resides in Dallas, Texas, with his wife Shannon, and teaches at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University (SMU) where he is a professor of Painting. He is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Walker Art Center; Dallas Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Hamilton Gallery of Art, Ontario, Canada; Milwaukee Museum of Art, Minneapolis; The Barrett Collection, Dallas; Pegasus Solutions, Scottsdale, Arizona; Edmund Pillsbury, Dallas; Bertrand Russell Library, London; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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