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Despina Stokou

Despina Stokou’s furiously energetic canvases layer text, collage, charcoal, and oil paint. These paintings react with immediacy to the breakneck speed of our daily information consumption while maintaining an inventive sensitivity to the history of expressive mark making. Her paintings incorporate sources as varied as html code, song lyrics, blog posts, classical music compositions, and most recently emojis. While her new emoji paintings are a slight departure from her earlier text based paintings, they continue a trajectory of exploring contemporary vernacular. Reacting to the information in her periphery through densely layered gestures, Stokou creates a new conversation about collapses of language as they relate to the history of abstraction today.


Her work has been included in exhibitions at Gagosian, Athens, EIGEN + Art, Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Ibid Projects, Los Angeles, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Galerie Krobath, Vienna, The Breeder, Athens, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, and several others. My work was also included in ReMap4, Athens. 


Courtesy of Derek Eller Gallery

Born 1978
Hometown Athens, Greece
Lives and Works Los Angeles, CA
Education
MA, Art in Context, University of Fine Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2006
BA, Visual Arts, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, 2002
Technical Institute for Marketing and Publicity, Athens, Greece, 1998

Despina Stokou Gallery Art

Galleries

Derek Eller Gallery

Representing Galleries

EIGEN + Art, Berlin/Leipzig

SHOWS

Derek Eller Gallery

New York
Oct 14 2016 - Nov 13 2016

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