Gregory Christeas

Over six decades, Gregory Christeas’ work has evolved through themes both personal and political. He confronted trauma in the Up the Moon series, captured the pulse of urban life in NYC Waterfront Reflections, and created optical poetry in The Glow and The Parallels Series—paintings that transform in changing daylight and reveal hidden dimensions under black light.

The culmination of Christeas’ lifelong artistic journey, The Parallels Series was decades in development. Shaped by the rhythm of waves and executed with wide spatulas, the technique allows color itself, rather than the tools, to meet the canvas. Each painting unfolds as a chapter in a visual language of movement, memory, and consciousness.

Born in Athens, Greece, in 1944, Christeas began painting at age five, encouraged by his mother to create freely and without fear. His creative life later became inseparable from his active resistance against Greece’s military dictatorship (1967–1974)—an experience that profoundly influenced his artistic vision.

Throughout his career, Christeas has participated in numerous group exhibitions and presented solo shows internationally. A major milestone arrived during the “Cultural Olympiad Athens 2004,” when the Ministry of Developmen...

His mother serving as the primary teacher and influence.

Over the years, he actively participated in numerous group shows and held several solo exhibitions. A noteworthy event was during the “Cultural Olympiad Athens 2004,” He exhibited 125 paintings and 3D art. Importantly, the artist’s paintings proudly find a place in the collections of three museums in Greece.