Peter Demos

PETER DEMOS’ current body of black and white monochromes addresses themes of opticality, repetition, and surface. The monochromes utilize different surface qualities in order to determine the visual structure of the paintings. Highly rational in execution, each painting is simultaneously unique and the basis for other works where it may be repeated and altered calling to the notion of originality, presentation, as well as aesthetic meaning. Demos received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from Hunter College where he was the recipient of the Tony Smith Award. He has exhibited in numerous exhibitions nationally, including group shows at Leo Koenig, Deitch Studios, Cirrus Gallery, and Dorsch Gallery. He had a recent residency at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio in Brooklyn, NY. peterdemos.com