"Floratos is a romantic. He grew up in Hell’s Kitchen, around the corner from Times Square, and still lives and has his studio in the neighbourhood. The city and its rhythms are in him. A lot has been said about the fundamental urban-ness of his paintings – from the graffiti-inflected earlier works to the recurring motifs of the famous yellow cab and his slacker avatar, the antithesis of corporate flash, in his baggy pants and his ball cap. There is a certain speed, maybe even hastiness, to Floratos’ mark-making, like he has to get an idea down before it gets pushed aside by the barrage of external stimuli.
The Nodes works bring a little bit of the neighbourhood with them – the collaged postcards of the New York skyline in Bridge Bath, River Head and Reservoir exchange were thrown into the street as the small tourist shops around Floratos’ family deli started to go bust during lockdown. They are images of the iconic capitalist metropolis in all of its sleek, towering glory, but they are also the material evidence of its brutal churn: the city’s lower functions – as unthinking gut, chewing you up and shitting you out."
– Amy Sherlock on Gerasimos Floratos' Nodes

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