PINTOXICATED AND HANDMADE BY ME are the inspiration of Gregorio Pinto, a Venezuelan-born artist and e-commerce professional now living between Los Angeles and New York.

PINTOXICATED is his approach to architectural photography and photography of art pieces with a distinctive wide-angle perspective to reflect his personal appreciation and view of architecture and art.  A collector of photography books and an avid visitor of photography exhibits and fairs, he decided to pursue photography as a serious endeavor late in life.  He decided to focus on architecture and art – at museum, public installation and graffiti - as both are long-time profound passion of him.

 His first exhibit of 14 photographs - a visual essay of a sculpture garden in a private company headquarters in Los Angeles - was acquired in its entirety by one of most important private collections in the country and are displayed permanently at company’s headquarters.

HANDMADE BY ME is his approach to handmade greeting cards which is a unique combination of traditional craft work with the sleek industrial look of modern era. The emphasis giving to the cards’ tactile and visual characteristics is summed up by Handmade By Me motto: “Feelings from the heart, feelings for the hand”.

A reinterpretation of ink-on-paper cards, there original pieces accentuate the sentimental value greeting cards have as keepsakes. People who receive Handmade By Me cards display them prominently and keep them longer. Each piece is individually and manually crafted by the artist himself, with no machine ever involved in the process.

The tremendous popularity of his handmade greeting cards and gifts among his friends inspired him in 1996 to set up shop and offer his work to the public. As an immigrant American citizen, his decision to become an entrepreneur offered the additional opportunity to enhance his understanding of American culture.

His cards (more than two hundred different designs) have been displayed exclusively in the windows of several fine stores in Manhattan, Boston, Provincetown and Fire Island One of his cards was selected for the presentation in the Best New Product Display at  The National Stationery Show 2000. Gregorio has also designed the windows and the decorated the interior of fashionable restaurant located in midtown Manhattan as well as its display case in the lobby of the prestigious Daily News Building.

During the fall of 2018 and again in 2019, Gregorio spent a month in Paris capturing images of the classic architecture beauty of the city, specially indulging in visual essay of the Père Lachaise Cemetery (his favorite place in Paris) and attended Paris Photo, the world’s largest Photography Art Fair.

He is currently working on his first book "Vintage Present, Vanishing Past" from his collection of shots that captured the vanishing old advertisement signs in downtown LA.