Leda Tsoutreli
BornNationalityBased In
2002GreekNew York City
Biography
Leda Tsoutreli (b. Athens, Greece 2002) is an oil colour painter who lives and works in New York City, New York. Her work explores the tension between spatial excess and the functional limits of the canvas. She draws inspiration from biblical, Hellenic, baroque, rococo and surreal history to construct expansive oil-colour compositions that spill across the two-dimensional canvas. By pushing the boundaries of mark-making, Tsoutreli taps into animalistic and intuitive instincts, disrupting the visual dynamics of painting and generating unconventional painterly spaces that challenge the role and extension of the line. ...