Soterios Gardiakos
Love You Honey
Aurora, Illinois
Soterios was born in Kalamata, Greece in 1944 but moved to the United States with his parents, brother and sister in 1952 when he was 8 years old. He is an award winning sculptor. In 1991, the ISC’s, (International Sculpture Center) Sculpture Source, the most advanced resource for contemporary sculpture picked Soterios’ number fourteen, two kores, one of nine, for their advertising campaign promoting contemporary sculpture out of over 9,000 sculptures in their archives.
“We all love cars, and often we even name our cars. So when I was asked to participate I thought ‘LOVE YOU HONEY’ and that is what I came up with, that simple.”Soterios Gardiakos