Selected Work - Art — Constantinos Gallis

Constantinos Gallis
Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR

Hello, my name is Constantinos. I am a Greek-Swiss artist, musician & student based in Cambridge, MA & Athens, GR. I am currently pursuing a Master in City Planning & a Master of Architecture at MIT, & am a recipient of the Onassis Foundation Scholarship. I hold a BA in Urban Studies from Stanford University, where I graduated with departmental honors & distinction, & was awarded the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Research.
Through academic research, teaching, large-scale installations, performances, & audio-visual investigations, I have explored the effects of urban change on the natural environment & society. My work has been exhibited in Athens GR, Cambridge MA, Stanford CA & San Francisco CA.
I have honed my skills in planning & design at firms in London, GB, New York, NY & Athens, GR, working as an Architectural Assistant at Foster + Partners, an Urban Design Intern at WXY, a Neighborhood Strategies Intern at the NYCEDC, & as an Architectural Intern at Potiropoulos + Partners.
Alongside my partner, I develop work for Oo-PS, a collaborative research & design practice working across scales to produce narrative-driven artwork, writing, music & objects as ways of anticipating future socio-environmental challenges & designing theoretical methods to meet them.
I write, record, produce & occasionally perform music under the alias Shrinking Violet, a project that moves between ambient, dreampop & indie rock in an effort to create music about spaces, distance & uncertainty. Performing solo & alongside bandmates, I have opened for artists such as The Hellp, French Cassettes, & Illuminati Hotties.

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Urban DistortionAthens, GR
A series of dense pen drawings reading Athenian apartment buildings through Robert Venturi's Complexity & Contradiction. The works capture the visual disarray of exposed cables, graffiti, & layered posters, alongside the sonic discomposure of the city, anchored in clusters of splayed lines that evoke its energy.

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VariscapesStanford, CA & Berlin, DE
A loose collection of landscape and cityscape drawings, ranging from a multi-layered view of rural farmland from an airplane to a single-pen rendering from inside Berlin's TV Tower, to a mixed-media study of cracked concrete. Despite their differences in scale & material, the pieces are fundamentally united by an emphasis on depth and perspective.

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Greyscale CityAthens, GR
A series of black-&-white drawings that celebrate the organized chaos of Athens, demonstrating an implicit uniformity within the city's group form. Borrowing from Fumihiko Maki's Nurturing Dreams, the pieces use skewed perspectives & multiple or absent vanishing points to evoke a sense of endlessness, with linework foregrounded by the absence of color.

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MultiplicationAthens, GR
A series made in the lead-up and aftermath of Greek national elections, driven by themes of crisis, prosperity, & political polarization. Influenced by Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, the work captures a feeling of hopelessness through dense, disorderly imagery of simultaneous evolution & abandonment, with color used to reflect the two duelling political sides.

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