Nikitas Kavouklēs
Nikitas Kavouklēs is a writer, designer, craftsman, and versatile artist with a broad vocabulary of creative styles and mediums. His artwork has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries in the Northeast and in Florida. His work includes oils, pastels, watercolors, etchings, drawings, photographs, monotypes, pigment prints, and computer graphics. He is also an accomplished art restorer and conservator.
His pieces are held in corporate and private collections in South America, Europe, Canada, and United States.
He served as a director of the LEDO Art Gallery and an active board member of the Upper West Side
of New York City’s Leger de Main Arts Coalition.
Kavouklēs was interviewed by the art critic Joan Altabe regarding his early adoption of digital printing. And despite the article’s misleading headline, his pigment print images are not “computer-generated” by some automated process. Click here to read the interview.
Kavouklēs’ work is featured in the book by art historian Darrell D. Davisson, Ph.D., Art After the Bomb: Iconographies of Trauma in Late Modern Art (2008).
Mr. Kavouklēs is currently represented by Stakenborg-Greenberg Fine Art and Gulf Gate Art & Frame in Sarasota, Florida.
Examples of Artwork Restorations by Mr. Kavouklēs
17th Cent. Japanese Namban (Foreigner) Screen – Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
Quan Am, Bodhisattva of Compassion – Vietnam, 19th century – Lacquered wood with traces of gilding – Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
Before and After Examples
19th century Photograph
Scottish man with snuff box – Oil on canvas – 19th century
Ship and Tugboat in Harbor – Oil on canvas – Early 20th century
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