Roma Gallery presents the exhibition Theodoros Stamos: Spiritual Vista, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Running from June 11 to July 4, the exhibition brings together works from the series Endless Fields (1970–1993), contributing to a reassessment of Stamos as a pivotal figure of the first generation of American Abstract Expressionists. The exhibition is curated by art historian Alia Tsagari and the Director of the Roma Gallery, Iridanos Tsirigoulis.

Born in Manhattan in 1922 to Greek parents originally from Lefkada and Sparta, Stamos emerged as a leading figure of American Abstract Expressionism during a pivotal period in the formation of the postwar American avant-garde. In 1943, at the age of just twenty-one, he held his first solo exhibition, organized by the legendary gallerist Betty Parsons, who recognized in his work “a sense of natural forces” and “his ability to translate this perception into painterly expression.” During the same period, Stamos became closely associated with Adolph Gottlieb, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko. In 1950, along with Rothko, Pollock, Newman, Gottlieb, and others, he co-signed the famous letter of protest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, reacting to the exclusion of avant-garde abstraction from the exhibition American Painting Today–1950. The following year, Nina Leen’s iconic photograph of the “Irascibles” by Nina Leen for Life magazine played a decisive role in the public identification of the group with new American art, with the young Stamos occupying a prominent position among its leading figures.

Theodoros Stamos: Spiritual Vista focuses on the Infinity Fields, the body of work that occupied Stamos from the early 1970s until the end of his life. In these works, nature ceases to function as a representational motif and is transformed into a cosmological field through which painting shifts from description toward the articulation of metaphysical inquiry.

Bringing together selected Infinity Fields from the Lefkada, Jerusalem and Torino subseries, the exhibition foregrounds the artist’s distinct position between colour field painting and gestural abstraction without fully coinciding with either category. Through fissured horizons, ideographic traces and pulsating chromatic surfaces, the works trace the transformation of specific places into expanded fields of ultramarine, crimson, indigo and violet, among the most characteristic tones of Stamos’s refined chromatic vocabulary. Viewed from this perspective, the Infinity Fields extend the trajectory of Abstract Expressionism toward a more contemplative and metaphysical conception of pictorial space. 

Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, Stamos participated in some of the defining exhibitions of post-war art, including Younger American Painters (Guggenheim, 1954), The New American Painting as Shown in Eight European Countries 1958–1959 (organised by MoMA and presented at the museum in 1959), and documenta II (Kassel, 1959). His works are held today in major public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, as well as the National Gallery in Athens. 

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Opening: Thursday, 11 June 2026 at 19:00

Opening Hours:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 11:00-20:00
Wednesday, Saturday: 11:00-16:00
Sunday, Monday: closed

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