A resident of Sacramento, California where he has a studio adjacent to his home, Kondos is known for bold, modernist landscape paintings---brightly lit canvases with big cobalt-blue skies, large areas of solid color, flowing rhythm, and simple design. His work is intended to suggest lonely, solitary aspects of the land.

He was born to Greek immigrant parents in Lynn, Massachusetts, and moved with his family to Sacramento, California in 1927. His parents encouraged his early art talent, and by 1941, he was attending Sacramento Junior College to study art, but was interrupted by three years on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific Ocean during World War II.

He later completed his degree, spent a year at the Ar...