Light From the Highland: In the Studio with Artist Dereje Demissie

Join us for Light from the Highland: In the Studio with Artist Dereje Demissie Wednesday, September 3rd at 7PM presented virtually on Zoom.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE FOR ZOOM LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GVKrKeYDSV2HsGd948B1vA

Dereje will present his work which explores nostalgia for homeland in his native Ethiopia, including work of the people, landscapes and cityscapes. Through his work, Dereje also explores themes of searching for belonging back home in Ethiopia, as well as here in his new American home.

About Dereje Demissie

Ethiopian artist Dereje Demissie is a graduate of Addis Ababa University Alle School of Art and Design specializing in mural art. He returned to Alle to specialize in painting and graduated in 2012. He has internationally exhibited his paintings in both solo and group exhibitions. Employing a brilliant spectrum of vivid color, Demissie’s compositions are bold and formally striking. His painting is greatly inspired by memories of growing up in Gullele, a suburb of Addis Ababa that was once renowned for its abundant flora and fauna.

Demissie considers the changes that urbanization and government intervention, among other factors, have brought to his childhood home. Captivated by the relationship between humans and nature, Demisse argues that in much the same way that humans shape their environments, they are influenced by their surroundings. Demissie’s richly colorful paintings are reflections on the geography and culture of his homeland.

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