About

DIMITRI GERAKARIS: BIOGRAPHY & CV

Born: Christmas 1947, Chicago.

Specializing in site-specific sculptural and architectural metalwork commissions since 1971 utilizing primarily forged metals such as steel, bronze, and occasionally granite and/or live plants. Forge located in Canaan, New Hampshire, USA

A.B. Dartmouth, 1969; Liberal Arts with combined major incorporating Art .

1992 -1997 Juror, New Hampshire Per Cent for Art for Architectural Art Commissions. 

1980 National Endowment for the Arts - Service to the Field Award.

1987 International Institute for Metal Design (Aachen,Germany) Golden Award. 

1973-1983 Founder, President, Editor...Artist-Blacksmiths's Assoc. of North America(ABANA)

Numerous Public works, including:

WOODSIDE CONTINUUM, Commissioned by the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (1999), Arts in Transit Program for the interphase of the MTA and Long Island Railroad at Woodside Station, Queens, New York City.

PINE STREET INN, Boston; large Reliefs for garden of the new Women's wing(1997).

BOYLSTON PLACE GATEWAY, City of Boston (1988) connecting Boston Common and the Theater District.

WAVES GATEWAY SCULPTURE, City of Boston (1991).

I-93 STATE OF NH WEATHERVANE, NH D.O.T.(1993) Salem, NH.

LONGFELLOW MEMORIAL, Brattle Street, Cambridge (1990).

GARDEN SCULPTURE, City of Cambridge, MA(1991).

TECHNOVERSE: a Thumbnail History of Technology, UNH Technical College at Manchester, NH (1987).

ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES ENTRY SCULPTURE, Dartmouth College (1989).

COTTONBOLL GATEWAY, Columbus, Georgia (1986).

EAGLE SQUARE GATEWAY, Concord, NH (1983). 

CASCADES ATRIUM GATEWAY, Opryland Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee (1989).

TAMING of the SHREW Element, Main Gates, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre; London, England (1996).

RUGBY LINEOUT RELIEF SCULPTURE, Dartmouth College Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse (2005)

VETERANS’ MEMORIAL RELIEF SCULPTURE, Dartmouth College Memorial Field  (2015)

TRADITIONAL SKIER RELIEF SCULPTURE, Dartmouth College Moosilauke Ravine Class of ’65 Bunkhouse, (2015) 

Works exhibited at Smithsonian Institution's Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC; US Embassy, Trinidad and Tobago; Saint Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire; Museum of Contemporary Craft, New York City; with works internationally exhibited and published, plus numerous lectures abroad (e.g.: Hereford, England; Aachen, Germany; Lindau, Germany; Coalbrookdale, England; etc).

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit By Sandra Bloodworth, Monacelli Press, 2006.

Architectural Ornamentalism by Jim Kemp, pub Whitney Library, 1987.

Art in the Embassies: U.S. Department of State. The Flagstaff Hill Collection, Trinadad and Tobago, MacLean Publishing, 1998.

The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community through Public Art and Urban Design By Ronald Lee Fleming, Merrill Publishers, 2007.

Kunst aus dem Feuer, by Gretl Hoffmann, pub Verlag Julius Hoffmann , Stuttgart, 1987.

Moderne Kunstschmiedearbeiten und Skulpturen, pub Fachberband Metall Bayern, 1980.

Ornamentalism by Robert Jensen & Patricia Conway, pub Clarkson N. Potter, 1982.

Public Art in Greater Boston, by Marty Carlock, Harvard Common Press, revised 1982.

AMERIKA, pub US Information Agency for USSR distribution, October 1984.

Boston Globe, 14 Oct 1988; 30 May 1989.

Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Dec 1971.

HOME Magazine, September 1988.

NY Times, 4 Feb 2007; Oct 2 1980. 

Smithsonian Magazine, May 1973.

Town & Country Magazine, Nov 1989.