Dimitri Gerakaris/ Selected Resumé
Born: Christmas 1947, Chicago.
A.B. Dartmouth, 1969; Liberal Arts with combined major incorporating
Art .
1992 -1997 Juror, New Hampshire Per Cent for Art for Architectural
Art Commissions.
1980 National Endowment for the Arts - Service to the Field Award.
1987 International Institute for Metal Design (Aachen,Germany)
Golden Award.
1973-1983 Founder, President, Editor...Artist-Blacksmiths's Assoc.
of North America(ABANA)
Specializing in site-specific sculptural and architectural
metalwork commissions utilizing primarily forged metals such as
steel, bronze, and occasionally granite and/or live plants.
Numerous Public works, including:
WOODSIDE CONTINUUM, Commissioned by the New York Metropolitan
Transit Authority (1999), Arts in Transit Program for the interphase
of the MTA and Long Island Railroad.
PINE STREET INN, Boston; large Reliefs for garden of the new Women's
wing(1997).
BOYLSTON PLACE GATEWAY, City of Boston (1988) connecting Boston
Common and the Theater District.
WAVES GATEWAY SCULPTURE, City of Boston (1991).
I-93 STATE OF NH WEATHERVANE, NH D.O.T.(1993) Salem, NH.
LONGFELLOW MEMORIAL, Brattle Street, Cambridge (1990).
GARDEN SCULPTURE, City of Cambridge, MA(1991).
TECHNOVERSE: a Thumbnail History of Technology, UNH Technical
College at Manchester, NH (1987).
ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES ENTRY SCULPTURE, Dartmouth
College (1989).
COTTONBOLL GATEWAY, Columbus, Georgia (1986).
EAGLE SQUARE GATEWAY, Concord, NH (1983).
CASCADES ATRIUM GATEWAY, Opryland Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee
(1989).
TAMING of the SHREW Element, Main Gates, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre;
London, England (1996).
Works exhibited at Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery,
Washington, DC; US Embassy, Trinidad and Tobago; Museum of Fine
Art - Boston, Saint Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New
Hampshire; Museum of Contemporary Craft, New York City; with works
internationally exhibited and published, plus numerous lectures
abroad (e.g.: Hereford, England; Aachen, Germany; Lindau, Germany;
Coalbrookdale, England; etc).
for more information, please contact: dg@Art-Metal.com
Dimitri Gerakaris
Architectural & Sculptural Metalsmithing
The Upper Gates Road
North Canaan, New Hampshire, 03741
USA
Telephone/FAX603.523.7366
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