Dimitri Likissas Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1969 -

Born in 1969, Dimitri Likissas was raised in Belgium and has Greek roots. Around his early twenties, Likissas moved to the Caribbean where his career evolved from being a graphic designer to a corporate director of a media publishing company. From that point onward, he has turned to painting full time and his creations have discovered their way into numerous private collections mostly in Europe and America. He is influenced by his Pop Art heroes Keith Haring, whom he has personally met as a teen, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol.

Over the years, Likissas has developed his own optical language and inimitable style, becoming a visual wizard whose art defies spatial constraints. With utmost proficiency, he invites the observer to view the world as magical, fluid and invigorating panorama. Through his paintings, the viewers sense their universe with a new range and fascinating perspective. His style emits joy, peace, and vibrant energy. The artist pursues color relationship and brings a considerable dexterity of color theory, a deep-seated sense of rhythm and formational aspects to each painting.

Although most of his earlier works included a same single colored dot pattern with a superimposed subject, today, the main element or subject of his paintings coalesces within the pattern of labor-intensive, individually colored dots. For Likissas, dot patterns serve as references to living organisms, atoms; the idea that matter is made up of discrete units which cohabitate in harmony. Many ask him “Why dots and not squares?”, his answer is that “For me, dots keep on moving and rolling, while squares are restrictive.

From nearby, Likissas’ paintings exuberate an expression of mystery and wonder, as looking from short distance one can’t see more than colored dots, as his or her conscious can’t interpret what it’s seeing, while from far, the dots melt into a cosmos that everyone immediately understands. The artist’ wish is to take observers on imaginary journeys as they wander and unravel the optical effects of his paintings. He says “I hope that my art invites observation and lets viewers have visual discoveries.”