“All things emerge from the ground of emptiness, and return to it in a continuous exchange”
 
“A MYRIAD OF ONE” An investigation into the nature of reality
New Works by Simone DeSousa
Re:View Contemporary Gallery
Opening, Saturday, May 18th 7PM-10PM
 
(Detroit, MI) Like all masterful existentialists, the multi-disciplined, Simone DeSousa’s paintings tread the fine line between reality and emptiness—or in this case the abstraction of reality into many interpretations. And the effect that her personal vision has on the viewer, where no two will see her work the same way.
 
Simone DeSousa is not only a transplanted artist (She’s from Brasilia, Brasil) but also a designer and Art Director, the founder of not only Salt-Mine Studios in the Russell Industrial Center, but also one of Detroit’s most important Detroit Fine Art galleries, Re:View Contemporary Gallery, in Midtown for the last 5 years.
 
A Myriad of One is DeSousa’s first solo show after 5 years of exhibiting and promoting a local “Who’s Who” of Detroit artists that includes, Adam Shirley, Mark Dancey, Cedric Tai, Graem Whyte, and the legendary Punk Chanteuse and painter, Niagara.
 
DeSousa (Named one of 10 “Visionaries Of Detroit” in Fortune Magazine 2010) whose academic background is the discipline of Architecture, in an expressionist way indeed “constructs” her canvases imagery and texture to seamlessly fit into the physical environment while, mining and stimulating the subconscious for a deeper than visual experience.
 
One of the major revolutionary aspects of the original Abstract art movement is that it was the first time in art history that nature wasn’t being represented in some way. A purely emotional and psychological expression that depicted thought—not the temporal world into pure painting, color and textures. DeSousa succeeds however in drawing us somewhere between nature and abstraction with these new works.
 
DeSousa sees these works as an investigation into the nature of reality—not just the reality of nature.
 
A Myriad of One runs through June 29th.