The Tache Gallery of New York is currently holding an exhibition – Faces/Paper Faces, by Lou Ros, a young artist who began his career as a graffiti artist. This self taught 26 year old, after a time as a street artist, graduated to murals and then to producing pieces at home. His neo-expressionist style combines the light with the serious and his deliberately unfinished paintings allow the spectators to muse and draw their own conclusions.
His series of works depicting dancers are influenced by his memories of his childhood, as his mother was a choreographer. He has reproduced the memory of the images from his past. As a neo- impressionist, he paints in an instinctive style, the vibrant colors together with strong determined brushstrokes produce works with elegance of movement externalizing his recollections together with hints of cubism and surrealism.
His ‘Rouge Anglais’ (English red) series refers to the color, a dark and serious purple, produced by combining ultramarine blue with minerals and earth colors. What Kafka said about Picasso could be said about the works of Lou Ros:
“In the distorted mirror of art, the reality appears undeformed “
