biography of Nicholas SPERAKIS (1943)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, printmaker

Studied: Pratt Inst. (scholarship, fall 1960); NAD Sch. FA, New York (scholarship), painting with Louis Boucie, 1960-61; ASL (scholarship), 1961-63, painting with Joseph Hirsch, Charles Alsom, Edwin Dickenson, Will Barnet & Harry Sternberg & graphics with Harry Sternberg; Pratt Graphic AC, scholarship, printmaking with Sid Hammer, Clair Romano & Ed Casserella.

Exhibited: Three Brooklyn Mus. Biennials, 1964, 1966 & 1970; 100 Prints From Pratt Graphic AC, Jewish Mus., New York, summer 1964; New Acquisitions, Chrysler Mus., Provincetown, MA, 1964-65; New Acquisitions, Norfolk Mus. Arts & Sciences, 1965; Paul Kessler Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 1970s. Awards: purchase prize, Mercyhurst College Paint Ann., 1964; Lawrence & Hinda Rosenthal fellowship, Am. Acad. Arts & Letters & NIAL, 1969; J.S. Guggenheim Mem. Found. fellowship graphics, 1970.

Member: FAFA; Artists Equity Assn.; Rhino Horn Org. Humanist Art.

Work: BM Print Coll.; PMA Print Coll.; Chrysler Mus. Permanent Coll., Provincetown, MA; Norfolk (VA) Mus. Arts & Sciences; 42nd St. Pub. Lib., NYC. Commissions: portraits, Johnethan Charnolble, Coll. of Carla Rueban, Mari Galleries, Larchmont, NY, 1966, Dr. John Courins, Maplewood, NJ, Marvin Bolozky, New York, 1967, Chaim Gross, New York, 1969 & George Viener, Redding, PA, 1971.

Comments: Teaching: Art School Educ. Alliance, 1968-69; 92nd St. YMHA, New York, 1970-71; Brooklyn Mus. Art School, 1971-72.

Sources: WW73; Robert Henkes, The Crucifixion as Depicted by Contemporary Artists (Nazarine College, 1972); Barry Shwarts, 20th Century Humanist Art (Praeger, 1973); Una Johnson, American Printmaking (Brooklyn Mus.).