Taymour Grahne Projects is pleased to present a solo by Demetrius Wilson curated by Bill Powers opening on June 24 between 5 - 7pm at the Holland Park Space (10 Portland Road) as part of a joint opening across our 3 spaces.

The American novelist Paul Auster proposed that there are two ways to see the world: travel the globe sucking up as much experience as you can or stay in one place and come to know it deeply. However, his hypothesis neglects to account for the ever-changing topography of our lives, more precisely, how the hometowns of our youth morph into places unfamiliar to us. For the first two decades of his life, Demetrius Wilson called Boston home. Now from the perspective of his final year as a Hunter College MFA in New York City, he can recollect those formatives days at a critical distance: the picnics and BBQs, the music blaring from a passing ice cream truck, playing dominos with neighbors. What Used To Be Is Only a Memory amalgamates these experiences into a distillation of new abstract paintings by Demetrius. In Bright Lights Amidst This Chaos the artist was intrigued by John Singer-Sargent’s Coronation painting.

“The pinks and greens contained such great light,” he explains. “I wanted to expand upon that drama.” We can see influences ranging from the Alphabet paintings of William Anastasi to Cecily Brown and Sam Gilliam. “Time is an illusion but it is also a tool that can be manipulated in order to understand the grand schemes that shape our visual realities,” concludes the artist. “In that way, we are all connected.” – Bill Powers

Demetrius Wilson b. 1996 - Boston, MA is an American artist based in New York. Recent exhibitions include: It’s Not Love, But It’s Glam, T293 Gallery, Roma, Italy; Dirty Brushes, Wine, and the Untold, Galatea Fine Art Gallery, Boston, MA; Uncommon Senses, Hunter College, New York City and 26th Annual No Dead Artists: Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Louisiana, LA. He will open his first solo in London at Taymour Grahne Project in June 2023.