Christos Palios

Christos J. Palios (b. 1979) is a fine-artist and first-generation Greek-American whose perspectives were shaped in-part from two disparate and fascinating cultures. The artist's practice is born from a wellspring of insatiable curiosity among themes of memory, connection, and identity, consummated by intimate examinations of history, architecture, and socioeconomics. We live in increasingly frenetic societies broadcasting endless stimuli, inundating our waking lives and shaping our beliefs—an exponentially-hijacked 21st-century mindset. This endless tangle of information often obliges us to discern truth from fiction, tasteful vs. boilerplate.

Broken Parrot Tulips:

"Broken" tulips are infected with a benign virus called TBV, or Tulip Breaking Virus, causing spectacularly unique and unpredictable color separations in tulip flower petals. As these exotic bulbs rapidly became fashionable luxury items in Dutch society in the early 17th-century,