Description: Thanasi (Athanasios) Papapostolou is a figurative artist whose primary mediums are clay and bronze sculpture and drawing.
Thanasi Papapostolou
Thanasi Papapostolou is a sculptor who divides his time between the Washington DC metro area and Madison WI. He received an M.F.A. from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art , a B.F.A. from the University of Pennsylvania , a 4 Year Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts , and has studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy .
Thanasi is a contemporary classical figurative sculptor whose work challenges anachronistic perceptions of figurative art. His stand-alone pieces use the human figure to explore notions of idealism—of form, structure, and human emotion. His sculptural installations place figurative and architectural pieces in dialogue with one another, removing the human figure from the viewer’s day-to-day experience and re-positioning it within a controlled context.