Greg Ito - The American Scholar

Greg Ito - The American Scholar

Los Angeles–based painter Greg Ito has long wondered when an image transforms into a symbol. But it wasn’t until May 2020, when Ito and his pregnant wife drove outside of the city to see the super bloom of poppies—which struck him as a symbol of growth and renewal—that he began to think about creating his own iconography. Up to that point, he’d been uncertain about whether he and his wife had chosen a good time to start a family, as the Covid-19…