Demetrios Papakostas is a Canadian painter who makes abstract paintings characterized by his passion for bold technical investigation, colour spatial and perception.
A selection of recent series
Bleu
Blue becomes expansive space. Fragmented, geometric structures emerge in saturated stillness — the flat sky reads not as backdrop but as depth itself. Shapes hover in suspended light, between abstraction and a Greek-inspired cityscape. Blue here means clarity, distance, calm.
LinearMotion
Line acts as a vector of time. Restless marks unfold across irregular birch panels — not mark but force, direction itself. Forms hover in suspended motion, between representation and abstraction. Linear Motion traces lines as they flow, stop, and cross. The line becomes potential, movement, time itself.
LinesUnderLines
In this recent series, I push form and structure by painting on irregularly shaped birch panels. Lines have anchored my practice for the past two years, and here I continue exploring how organic marks suggest direction and movement — the linearity running through everything.
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