Blended with life experience, Maiofis’ imagination roams over both the exterior world and the interior space of his mind. Maiofis believes that questions and concerns that confront sentient beings are confined neither by geographic boundary nor nationality. Drawing inspiration from the Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov and the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, the artist also plays with ideas borrowed from politics and popular culture – from Disneyland to pirated DVDs and Tarot cards. Thus the sources that inspire and influence him are as far ranging as the mediums in his artistic arsenal: painting, collage, drawing and photography, which he sometimes combines in multimedia pieces. He is a superb craftsman who has mastered difficult photographic processes, including bromoil and Van Dyck, and created works that have the look and feel of Old Master prints. His bromoil images have a painterly quality with their textured surfaces and subtle palette that is perfectly suited to his subject matter.
Written by Karen Sinsheimer, 2010, Los Angeles
Blended with life experience, Maiofis’ imagination roams over both the exterior world and the interior space of his mind. Maiofis believes that questions and concerns that confront sentient beings are confined neither by geographic boundary nor nationality. Drawing inspiration from the Russian fabulist Ivan Krylov and the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte, the artist also plays with ideas borrowed from politics and popular culture – from Disneyland to pirated DVDs and Tarot cards. Thus the sources that inspire and influence him are as far ranging as the mediums in his artistic arsenal: painting, collage, drawing and photography, which he sometimes combines in multimedia pieces. He is a superb craftsman who has mastered difficult photographic processes, including bromoil and Van Dyck, and created works that have the look and feel of Old Master prints. His bromoil images have a painterly quality with their textured surfaces and subtle palette that is perfectly suited to his subject matter.
Written by Karen Sinsheimer, 2010, Los Angeles
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