Midcity, Los Angeles
Gerasimos Floratos
Grid Monk
Tanya LeightonTanya Leighton, Los Angeles is pleased to present Grid Monk, featuring new works by Gerasimos Floratos. “Floratos’s works express a personal mythology of urban monastics, their thoughts both internal and extraphysical; street-focused but transcendent; their sneakers hitting the pavement but their psyches traversing other worlds, dimensions, territories and intersections of time.” —Mitch Horowitz Gerasimos Floratos (born in 1986 in New York, lives and works between New York and Kefalonia, Greece). Recent solo exhibitions of his work include ‘Hymn’, Château de Boisgeloup, Gisors, France (2022); ‘Maps’, Almine Rech, Brussels (2022); ‘Psychogeography’, Almine Rech, Paris (2020); ‘Bismuth’, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York City (2020); ‘Nodes’, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (2020); ‘There’s a sidewalk inside this gut’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2019); ‘1977’, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens (2018); ‘Slangwich Motel’ at Schloss, Oslo (2018); ‘1977’ at Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens (2018); ‘Soft Bone Journey’ at Armada, Milan (2017); ‘Big Town’ at Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (2016) and White Columns, New York (2016). Selected group exhibitions of his work include ‘Image Unavailable’, Gallery Albany, New York (2022); ‘Smoke & Mirrors’, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Miami (2021); ‘Heliotropic’, Eleni Koroneou, Athens (2021); ‘Different Strokes’, curated by Marcus Jahmal, Almine Rech, London (2021); ‘Good Luck’, Shrine, New York (2020); ‘Five’, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens (2020); ‘Artists I Steal From’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London(2019); ‘Malmö Sessions’, Carl Kostyál, Malmö (2019); ‘Senior Coconut: Eddie Martinez, Gerasimos Floratos’, Rafael Delacruz,Reyes–Finn, Detroit (2019).