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James Michalopoulos is one of the most well-known artists in New Orleans. View the beauty and stunning originality captured in his work.
James Michalopoulos (born 1951) is an American painter and sculptor. He is best known for his colorful interpretations of New Orleans. He has painted the landscape surrounding his home in Burgundy, France; cityscapes and street life in San Francisco and Boston; and anthropomorphically rendered animals.
James Michalopoulos began his journey in 1951, the son of a prominent modernist architect father whose designs helped reshape downtown Pittsburgh. One of six children, he was raised in a home full of art, including paintings by his uncle, the influential surrealist painter William Baziotes.
Though known for his distinctive architectural renderings, most notable paintings being of New Orleans; he is the favorite artist of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Foundation. He has been commissioned five times to create the official Jazz Fest poster: 1998, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2009.
At age sixty-seven, Michalopoulos has emerged as a force in New Orleans, a cheerleader and community builder for the creative class that for so long has helped make the city the wonderfully idiosyncratic place that it is—one in danger of succumbing to the rent hikes of gentrification.
Sep 29, 2021 · Visit Michalopoulos Gallery at 617 Bienville St. (504) 558-0505. michalopoulos.com. You can meet James and view From the Fat Man to Mahalia on Oct. 28, from 6-8pm, at the New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Ave.
James Michalopoulos is an American artist best known for painting New Orleans scenes using an off-kilter perspective and thickly applied paint. View James Michalopoulos’s artworks on artnet.
