NEW YORK, NY Chelseas Agora Gallery leave facet the original workof Lois Gold in Portal to Enigma. The exhibition opens April 25, 2017 and runs through May 16, 2017 with an breach reception on Thursday, April 27 from 6-8 pm
Lois Gold Creates Tactile Multi-Media Pieces Reflecting the Beauty of Nature
The varied media paintings of Lois Gold are tactile and alluring, pulling viewers in with succulent colors and intriguing textures, evoking emotions of calm and tranquility Inspired by Impressionist painters like Pierre Bonnard and Claude Monet, as well as decrepit frescoes, Gold utilizes a wide variety of materials and techniques to present her business not only depth of color, but of surface as well. She says she wants her paintings to be felt as well as seen.”
A few of the usual materials Gold uses are gold leaf, beaded gels, handmade papers, pastels, sponges, stamps, and stencils, all of which she collages together with acrylic pigment, water washes, finger painting, and traditional brushwork The resulting images compass from landscapes, to stagnant lifes, to obscure plant that place organic forms
Gold was born in New York City, but has traveled the cosmos and visited art museums extensively since childhood She says her work is intensely personal, and describes the performance of depiciton as a sensual experience reflecting her emotions of grace and nature, and her sentiment for life.
Exhibition Dates: April 25, 2017 May 16, 2017
Reception: Thursday, April 27, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am 6:00pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: http://wwwagora-gallerycom/artistpage/Lois_Goldaspx
Featured Artists:
Portal to Enigma
Mague Brewer | A. Cornelia Weigle | Sven Weigle | Catherine Harasymiw | Patricia Queiruga | Cristina Prieto Crespi | Cindy Parsley | Lois Gold
About the Exhibition
Portal to Enigma
Agora Gallery is grateful to grant Portal to Enigma, a new band exhibition exploring the possibilities of forceful thought and non-representational art As its phrase suggests, this express is about finding meaning within compositions that can be arcane or even withholding The activity on demonstrate throws the spotlight on the non-literal components of visual depiction: texture, color, form, and format in space. Portal to Enigma is a unique scan of the voguish in abstraction.
Among the eight featured artists are some who manoeuvre with landscape, some who machination with figural studies, and some who business purely appearance of representational boundaries One musician fractures the human something into slices halfway as if to manifest the motility of point across the canvas Another depicts attitude as a romantic, enigmatic lot of impossibly productive colors The exhibition includes experiments in pattern, texture, and highly intricate mark-making These are some of the most energized, relentlessly curious recondite artists working in the sector today