Miltos Manetas

Miltos Manetas is a contemporary artist living in Los Angeles; He is originally from Athens, Greece and received formal art training in Brera-Milan, Italy. Manetas canvas based artwork generally comprises oil-paintings of wires, game consoles, various cables, computer hardware, and sometimes people using them. He has had art exhibitions at both the New York based Gagosian Gallery in 2000 and the Yvon Lambert Gallery in 2006.

Miltos Manetas also has various Flash website base artworks such as his www.maninthedark.com, www.fourfortyfour.com, www.farewelltophilosophy.com, www.antonionegri.com. Manetas website art page www.JacksonPollock.org was mentioned as one of the 50 coolest websites by Time magazine in 2006. For the website www.JacksonPollock.org, Manetas incorporates the uses of Flash to mimic Jackson Pollock’s abstract expressionist style to allow the user to use their computer monitor and mouse to emulate the painting method of Jackson Pollock.