James Michalopoulos

James Michalopoulos is an oil painter and sculptor best known for his skewed, post-impressionistic depictions of traditional New Orleans architecture and his posters for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Michalopoulos is a prolific oil painter whose work vividly and expressively captures the essences of New Orleans’s French Quarter and surrounding neighborhoods. His subjects include old cars, landscapes, and female portraiture as well as architecture. Employing exaggerated viewpoints and skewed perspectives, his renditions of old shotgun houses and ironwork-laced balconies seem to twist and dance in shadows of moonlight. He uses palette knives for much of his work in oil, a technique that allows him to work quickly while laying richly saturated, pure colors.