Mike Petrakis Art Blog

  Announce my participation at the 'Biennial of miniature Art-Bitola 2025' with my drawings 'GUN(M) & ARTery'. The physical group exhibition started on August 12 and will be presented at Serbia, Greece & Romania. Also on June my work  ‘D(ME)MOCRACY'exhibited at the virtual group show entitled 'Wellspring''' You can view the exhibition at the link https://visit.virtualartgallery.com/wellspring

  Announce my participation with 7 works at the virtual  group  exhibition entitled 'Beneath the Surface' by 'Artflow Alliance'. The link of the group show:   https://www.artsteps.com/view/684c0f9d69fb98cd5814a43d                                                                 Exhibition's statement Beneath the Surface is a dynamic group exhibition that invites viewers to look beyond the visible and encounter the unseen.  Showcasing the work of artists from around the world, this exhibition explores what lies hidden—within ourselves, our histories, and the environments we inhabit.  From emotional depths and spiritual undercurrents to ancestral memory and the mystery beneath land, sea, and everyday objects, the works in this show reveal the layers that shape our experience but often go unnoticed....

  Announce my participation as one the winners with my works 'SKIN CITY', 'POSTer'' & ' Me, Myself & I', at the  8th International Biennial of Fine and Different Art “Turbulent World” by 'IAVPOA' - International Association OF Visual, Performing & Other Art. The link in YouTube with the winners of the Biennial is  https://youtu.be/YXTV6KurHiE?si=mc6_PAP7NqtWaEYQ

The question of whether  humans create society  or  society creates humans  has sparked debate among philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists for centuries. It forces us to examine the relationship between individual agency and structural influence—a relationship that ultimately shapes human experience, behavior, and history. From one perspective, society is a construct—a deliberate creation by human beings seeking order, cooperation, and survival. Enlightenment thinkers such as  John Locke  and  Jean-Jacques Rousseau proposed that individuals formed societies through social contracts. According to this view, humans are autonomous agents who unite to form institutions, laws, and cultural norms. Everything from democratic governments to family structures can be seen as human inventions. Language, religion, economics, and art are all expressions of the human desire to connect and create. As such, society becomes an extension of collective human wi...

  I'm pleased to announce that my artwork  PARADISE  is part of the  Artflow Alliance Members Showcase 2025 , a virtual group exhibition featuring an amazing lineup of contemporary artists from around the world.  I'm also exhibited in  'Tempo' , a group show at  Impreint Art Space  in  London, UK , which opened on  April 26 .  ️ The show explores the concept of time through diverse artistic voices — honored to be among them!

  ‘ARTery’ explores the intimate connection between my organism and the creative process, where my arteries pulse with vitality and their heartbeat fuels the flow of imagination.     ‘The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart’ -  George Sand   My internal rhythm becomes the brushstroke and blood is the pigment, as every stroke is reflection of life itself, merging the organic with the artistic in a dialogue between body and canvas.     Blood no longer flows.. it is time for the color...     ‘Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment’ -  Claude   Monet The phrase,   my arteries are brushes, my blood is the color ,  speaks to the very essence of creation: a continuous circulation of energy, emotion, and expression.