Artist Statement: Coloring Fish is a fun and interactive piano adorned with colorful sea life. Among the aquatic creatures there is an octopus, certain fish and areas of the piano painted with chalkboard paint for you to color in. Hour to hour and between visits the piano will be ever changing, ever evolving… like our oceans. Hope you can pop by to play & color J
Nick Stavrides was born in Washington Heights in the late 60’s and resides in New York City/Hell’s Kitchen today. As a child, he would spend hours in the waters of Montauk, snorkeling and drifting among the fish. It was a place where he felt safe and is the inspiration for his fish series that’s consumed him for the last 14 years. A self-trained painter, Stavrides embraces the art of different tribes and cultures which gives his work a primitive quality. He also draws inspiration by observing New Yorkers in their daily rhythms on the streets and makes comparison between them and schools of fish.
