Sam Elgreco

Sam Elgreco, a multidisciplinary artist from São Paulo, Brazil, merges geometric abstraction with influences from graffiti, anime, and the digital world, transforming urban spaces into vibrant, dynamic visual experiences worldwide. He uses different types of geographies of cities and their urban furniture as inspiration to compose his sketches and fuse his pieces with the context, thus creating visual experiences and generating dialogue with the environment. Over the years, he gained experience participating in different projects in Buenos Aires, Punta del Este, São Paulo, Barcelona, London, Mexico City, Washington DC, Jacksonville, Miami, and Tokyo, among other cities in the world; with public spaces, private entities, festivals, architects, museums, art galleries, and collectors. Sam Elgreco was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1986, after a few years he moved to Buenos Aires to study fine arts and graphic design where the idea of painting in public space became constant, since his childhood he had a strong connection with the drawing, his first lines were influenced by the graffiti movement of the time (2000). Over the years he experimented with painting on the streets and working in the studio. He went through various aesthetic stages until reached geometric abstraction. This work talks about compositional exercises and color studies. The images of his pictorial language are associations of shapes and colors that come from anime, electronic music, nature, and the digital world, is characterized by the constant production of paintings on canvas, wood collages, large format murals, digital illustration, and animation. In his pieces, he proposes to break the forms of assembly of pure geometric figures, seeking to generate movement, volume, textures through different materials, and works on the decomposition of light with a post-graffiti neo-futuristic aesthetic.