Guy Hepner and Tax Collection are currently showing the first US solo show of Belgium-born artist Dimitri Likissas. 
Artist, Dimitri Likissas was born and raised in Belgium and has Greek roots. In his early 20s, he moved to the Caribbean where his career evolved from being a graphic designer to a corporate director of a media publishing company. From that point forward he turned into a full-time artist and painter, and his creations have discovered their way into numerous private collections mostly in Europe and America.
His work stems from a long tradition of using distinct dots of color in art, which the viewer?s mind blends together to create the final image. Playing with chromatic tonality and the dissection of visual planes, Dimitri creates works that seem to move and undulated within the canvas as if attempting to escape their two-dimensional confines. While the dots work together in harmony to create the image, their circular nature acts in opposition to his square or rectangular canvases, reminding us of the basic elements of life and how atoms are in a constant movement ? propelling against each other ? creating matter itself. Having studied the works of the original Pointillist masters, such as Georges Seurat and Henr Edmond-Cross, as well as pop artists like Roy Lichtenstein and Keith Haring, Likissas gives us a fresh interpretation on the usage of dots in painting. We chat with him about his current exhibition, ?Pointillism Revisited?.

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