Alex Massouras, East 95th Street (Large), 2023, Signed and dated on reverse, Oil on linen, 55 3/4 x 44 in, 141.5 x 112 cm
Alexander Massouras (b. 1981) is an artist from Nottingham now based in Cambridge, UK. His work is in UK and international collections including the British Museum, the V&A, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a Leverhulme Fellow at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre.
Through selective appropriation and erasure of found images, Massouras’s paintings, sculptures and prints explore the construction of the past, and the personal residues left on public memory. He uses a visual language that is simultaneously fragile and stark to question the very nature of permanence in art.
Through selective appropriation and erasure of found images, Massouras’s paintings, sculptures and prints explore the construction of the past, and the personal residues left on public memory. He uses a visual language that is simultaneously fragile and stark to question the very nature of permanence in art.