NYAB Event - Demetrius Manouselis Exhibition

Demetrius Manouselis Exhibition

Jeffrey Leder Gallery

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"The rewards in Manouselis' works are formal: the transitions of color, the expert drawing, the juxtaposition of curved edge next to straight line, the density of form hollowed by a wash of color, the contrast of soft and hard, the startling balance, how all the pieces fit together in complicity and collaboration like an elegant, interlocked jigsaw puzzle, dynamic equilibrium achieved.

His paintings are boldly architectonic in appearance, constructs that are Cubist-derived, modernist stacks of hard, overlaid, overlapping forms softened by a painterly gesture against painterly fields.

Manouselis is also somewhat metteur-en-scene and his works have a sense of theater about them, as if they were abstract stage sets, ideal cities geometricized, part of a history of depicted cityscapes, from temple precincts to ampitheaters to arched passages to closely packed Mediterranean and Aegean houses, to more contemporary structures, the janty, banded and plain ovals bounding across the stage like so many dramatic protagonists. Whether this reading is fanciful or not, Manouselis—as any good artist, any good abstractionist should—leaves his viewer ample space for eye and mind to wander."

Lilly Wei is a NY-based independent curator, essayist, critic and a contributor to "Art in America"

Demetrius has exhibited in various group shows at the Jeffrey Leder Gallery, and solo exhibits at Kourus Gallery, Andre Zarro Gallery and Doma Gallery.