Alexi Antoniadis (Born in 1974 in Palo Alto, CA) is a contemporary sculptor who lives and works in Natick, Massachusetts. Antoniadis’ colorful steel artworks occupy a space between painting and sculpture, combining graphic abstraction and three dimensional line drawing. Antoniadis encourages viewers to draw their own meaning from his works as they are ultimately a record of the artist’s ongoing formal exploration.
Antoniadis arrives at his compositions through an improvised process of drawing, metalwork and painting. Sometimes the work will manifest as a three dimensional form, as a flat cut-out or any combination of the two.
Antoniadis takes his inspiration from primitive art as well as the Modern masters. He is also influenced by the imagery and themes of science fiction as well as graffiti art. This hybrid of influences gives Antoniadis’ work its own unique contemporary voice.
Antoniadis received his BFA in painting from RISD in 1997 and has had two significant practices throughout his art career. From 2006-2013 Antoniadis was one half of the art collaborative, Antoniadis and Stone. Their critically acclaimed work was exhibited in Boston and New York galleries, included in the 2012 DeCordova Biennial and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In 2013 Antoniadis returned to his solo practice and developed the personal sculptural language that he is known for today.
Antoniadis’ work is included in numerous private and corporate art collections in the US. In the spring of 2018 he produced a large outdoor sculpture for Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, MA. and continues to create privately commissioned works.