The following is information from the 2008 Greek Food Festival
Please check back in mid-2009 for updated information

Greek-American photographer MK Semos is a highly committed professional whose deep appreciation of beauty and culture can be found in each of her photographs. She specializes in travel, portrait, and interior photography, and most recently is enjoying experimentation with printing on various and unique surfaces. Born in Dallas, Texas, she earned Bachelor Degrees in photojournalism and photo-illustration from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995. She has traveled extensively in the United States, as well as throughout, Europe, Mexico and the Caribbean. She has freelanced for New York Magazine, Business Traveler and Timeout NY, and recently her artwork has been highlighted and talked about in publications as The Dallas Morning News and Daily Candy. She has relocated from New York City to Dallas, Texas, where she, with her partner, Hugo Garcia Urrutia, own and operate the Decorazon Gallery.

Architectural training is always very prominent in the work of Hugo Garcia Urrutia, originally from Juarez, Mexico. Graduated from Texas Tech University in 2000, with a Bachelor of Architecture and Design, Hugo worked in the field professionally for five years before founding the Decorazon Gallery in Dallas' Bishop Arts District in 2004. He has participated in national and international art-architecture competitions and public projects including the 2000 National Urban Poetry I Competition sponsored by AIA Cincinnati, International Architecture Competition sponsored by magazine, ARQUINE, 2005. He also participated in the design competition for the Magic Mountain: Museum of Stone Culture in Verona, Italy, a project sponsored by USA Institute, 2001.

MK Semos and Hugo Garcia Urrutia first collaborated in 2005, when they did a public art project in the form of a life-size photography art installation in the newly constructed Rosemont Primary School, Chris V. Semos campus. They have been collaborating ever since.

DECORAZONgallery is located at 417 N. Bishop Ave., Dallas, Texas, 75208
(in the historic Bishop Arts District, in Oak Cliff)
ph/fax: 214.946.1003
www.DECORAZONgallery.com
www.MKsemos.com

Photography & Photo-Inspired Art - Samples

Handmade Byzantine icons on found wood with gold-leafing - Samples

The Artists