So I kindly asked Nick to send me photos he took of the May 16, 2009 newsstand with his dog friend, appropriately named “Citizen Z” (who is not for sale).

"Our Epitaph" and dog sculpture

Georgiou’s website: http://myhumancomputer.blogspot.com/. His studio is upstairs at the Citizens Art Studios at 44 W. 6th Street (BICAS building). See more photos of this dog sculpture at his website.

Nick also had a booth recently at the Tucson Festival of Books, as he uses discarded books in his creative art as well.

R.I.P. Tucson Citizen newspaper

"The Scholar" by Nick Georgiou (mixed-media)

Newsprint artist Nick Georgiou had an opening reception on October 28 of his new one-artist show “Paper Elegies” at the Temple of Music & Art, showing through November 22. Here’s the gallery description of Nick & his art:

As the debate over the death of the printed word continues, mixed-media artist Nick Georgiou moves the discussion in a new direction by transforming discarded books and newspapers found on the street into sculpture, reclaiming and revisiting how we absorb language and information today.

Using old books, newsprint and a variety of colored papers, Georgiou selects, cuts, arranges, folds, and stacks the printed remains, creating mesmerizing 3-dimensional wall pieces, that speak both to the mounds of discarded print all around us and the constant barrage of information we have available at our fingertips today. In the rapidly exploding world of digital images and words, pulp star Georgiou is a storyteller harvesting the past and examining the future at the same time. Is there an app for that?

Transplanted New Yorker Georgiou received his BFA in Film and Television from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and worked in film prior to pursuing a full-time career as a sculptor. The recipient of commissions from Oxford University Press and the Washington Post Corporation, Georgiou’s work has been exhibited at Black Rat Press and Andipa Modern galleries in London, and in several shows in the New York area.

Last December I visited Nick’s studio here in Tucson and wrote about his unique art (click here). His present show has lots of unusual portraits, whimsical flowers,
a large saguaro cactus, a female nude, all of which he meticulously created.

Temple of Music & Art, www.ethertongallery.com
330 S. Scott Avenue, north of Cushing St.
M to F, 10 to 5 p.m., and prior to Az Theatre Company productions
520-624-7370

Nick Georgiou’s website: www.myhumancomputer.com.

human sculpture by Nick Georgiou (from his website)

A Visit to Nick Georgiou at his studio at 44 W. 6th Street (upstairs)
is a unique, unusual, and memorable event. His studio is absolutely filled with newsprint, not in piles, but in sculptures that he meticulously hand stitches. He moved here from New York City (where else?) about 2 years ago.

As Nick says of himself: “His sculptures breathe new life into discarded books and newspapers found on the streets and comments upon the regeneration of the printed word in contemporary society.”

To see more fantastic images by Georgiou, go to his website: www.myhumancomputer.com, or email him at myhumancomputer@yahoo.com.

More in his own words:
“It isn’t hard to see that the printed word is already shaping up to be an artifact of the 21st century. Our way of interacting with text is changing. We’re losing something tangible. Georgiou’s art reflects this transformation being driven by the immediacy of media, and our addiction to the 24-hour news cycle.” Well said, Nick, for us, a 24 hour online news source and no longer a print newspaper, the Tucson Citizen.

We just saw one of his amazing pieces at the BICAS art auction last night, which was being bid on for hundreds of dollars. Here’s one below of a dog sculpture on Congress Street downtown.

Thank you Nick for recycling newsprint, as after all your art is indeed “born from news.”