Galerie Zürcher - New-york - Paris

Bio

2012-05-15T12:13:44Z

Paul DeMuro's new paintings utilize a computer or even a cell phone to change the image on the screen into its photographic inverse. By using color that is removed from intuition and then translating into physical, thick, sculptural oil paint, he attempts to deal with this specific moment in the relationship between the human hand and the machine : « Would it not be hard to imagine the day when a program will arrive that makes your posts, pics, tweets, likes, etc. into a repeating algorithm, thus making your personality, persona and identity go on into the foreseeable future, long after your body dies and rots away ? »

Paul DeMuro (born 1981, he lives in Brooklyn, NY) was raised in Philadelphia.
He grew up Catholic in a row house by four different cemeteries, and received his MFA in Painting from Rutgers University in 2010. DeMuro has recently been included in group exhibitions at Jolie Laide, Columbia University, Harlem Workspace Gallery, and Lauren Luloff's loft. He currently holds a Chashama studio residency in New York.