Born 1975, Ieud, Romania. Lives and works in Bucharest, RO and Brooklyn, NY.

Dumitru Gorzo moves freely between genres, platforms, and media. His praxis equally includes sculpture alongside painting. While the fragility and unpredictability of his chosen mediums present their own challenges, he embraces their nuances, skillfully weaving them into his artistic expression. In both his paintings and sculptures, Gorzo allows the nature of each surface to guide him, letting paint permeate deeply into the fibers and melding imagery with material. Each new layer he adds resonates with the surface’s inherent qualities, granting his works a rich visual and tactile disposition.

Tension is at the root of every work by Dumitru Gorzo. Each one is a manifestation of diametrically opposing forces, whether it is dynamism versus solidity, surrealism versus realism, or even outsider versus high art. This tension is apparent in the play between Gorzo’s figuration and abstraction. Whether utilizing brush or oil stick, he applies color, line, and composition with a geometric precision that creates sharp corners and edges that become faces, oscillating between pure abstraction and a multitude of emotional expressions. Like a jazz improvisation, each new piece in his exhibition offers a variation on a theme, articulated through a gestural lexicon that defies categorization. The movement emanating from his works may evoke echoes of De Kooning, Kippenberger, and even Picasso, all of whom, like Gorzo, found their own path to their art . Yet, Gorzo thrives amid the tension between conflicting centers of artistic practice, successfully challenging the conventional taxonomy of the art world.