The work of the artist Mihail Tomescu could be envisioned as an inexhaustible repository of visual chimeras, coming into life in hidden, yet ever-present, unexpected, yet vividly suggested stratified catacombs, to be realized and consumed with the tools of the mind, via the optical apparatus.

Rooted in the fascination with his early childhood’s landscape, in the cliffs and caves of western Transylvania, spliced with stories told by his late grandfather, fueled by a lifelong reminisce of those scenes, Mihail Tomescu’s paintings are masterfully construed in layered protoplasmic visual fields, in sceneries that continually de-constitute and reconstitute a static reality, thus suggesting the subtle forces that dominate physicality.

The artist's approach is one of relentless tribulations, a perpetual pendulum, from oil on canvas to mixed media, and more recently, mono print artwork.

The humble earth-bound palette goes through histrionic bursts of chromatic explosions, yet not allowed to fully scream at their will by the artist, as if a secret addiction for domination is fueling his pursuit for aesthetic harmony.

Mihail Tomescu is a Romanian-born visual artist active in the United States and internationally. His recent exhibitions include shows at Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca, Arcade 24 Art Gallery Bistrita RO, Scope Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

He received his MFA from Penn State School of Visual Arts and BFA from the University of Arts and Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania. After graduation he moved with his family to Southeast Missouri where in 2012 opens his own Art Gallery in the historic building “Cotton Exchange Bank” in downtown Kennett, MO.

Until 2017, when he moved to Nashville TN, Tomescu traveled extensively getting exposed to various cultural influences which he actively explores and assimilates.

For the past five years he lived and worked in Austin, Texas and Oahu, Hawaii.