Recent prints from Kon Dimopoulos created during New York lockdown

Konstantin Dimopoulos is a New Zealand artist who has been living in New York City. He is internationally known for his large-scale linear sculptures and public art installations on social and global issues including The Blue Trees about deforestation; and The Purple Rain, about the anonymity people experience when homeless.

Dimopoulos’s new series of prints were created last year while in lockdown in New York. These images reflect living through a year that changed the world, in a city that became, for a time, the epicenter of the global pandemic. Experiencing both the ravages of an invisible enemy juxtaposed upon which were the Black Lives Matter demonstrations that erupted in the streets of New York and the rest of America.

‘Outside my studio in the Gowanus district was like a scene from a Hitchcock or Kubrick movie. We were living through times and events that seemed a work of fiction. It’s as though we were – and still are now - both audience and actors in an ongoing film noir production. Inspired by these days of fear and hand washing in the time of coronavirus, I began to draw from these scenes as I walked from my home in Brooklyn to my studio. As we know with all horrors it is not only what you see that frightens but also what is invisible...”

Each of these prints depict memories and images living through a New York nightmare. They portray intense, haunting themes, reflective of both the fear of an insane time and the bleak outlook on humanity.