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About the Artist:
Lee Kaloidis was born in Philadelphia, PA, to an American mother and a Greek father. Within a year the family was transplanted to South Florida where his mother was an art teacher. At seven, Lee began playing trumpet and was playing professionally and studying with the local pros in his teens. He attended the University of Miami School of Music with a focus on Jazz Studies. Eventually, Lee would move to New York, transition from trumpet to poetry, and spend all of his time with literature. In the 1990s, poetry, trumpet, and the visual arts began to fuse via intense interest in creativity of the mind. In the 2000s, the visual world overtake poetry and music and he worked almost exclusively with paint, though he writes poetry and plays jazz trumpet to this day. He has been a professional working artist since the past 20 years. Kaloidis’s work can be found all over the globe. His main collector is Norwegian Holdings. A documentary film was recently filmed in Lee’s studio in March 2024 and is due to be released soon about Lee’s art for the Norwegian's collection.
Artist Statement:
Lee Kaloidis states, "My paintings are a direct byproduct of intense involvement with improvisational music and free-verse poetic composition. They are about expressive freedom, dramatic and evolutionary movement, balance and integrity, and ultimately about natural order. I like to think of my paintings as places where the most divergent and unexpected things collide, converging at just the right time into articulate realizations of new compositional possibilities. I don't know what I'm gonna do in the beginning. Sometimes I try to get out in front by forcefully seeing things, but that's always wrong. You can't discover what you already know. You can't see what doesn't exist yet. What's best is to get your head right in the beginning, then do something and respond to that honestly and deeply and with all the love you can muster - Over and over and over again till you're done."
