NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Angela Blattner in The Figure and Unknown Places. The exhibition opens July 7, 2018 and runs through July 27,  2018 with an opening reception on Thursday, July 12 from 6-8 pm. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.

About the Artist

Angela Blattner recreates the novelty, dynamism, and excitement intrinsic to lived experience — especially in urban settings. Capturing impromptu moments, chance encounters, and other glimpses into social and organic processes in different stages of their unfolding, Blattner utilizes perspective as her primary tool, embedding her pictures in a sort of formal commentary that relies less on what is seen than the way in which it is portrayed. Generally working with painterly media such as acrylics and watercolors, objects in Blattner’s works are never isolated entities, but contain the whole world within themselves, like visual synecdoches of social and cultural life.

In New York 2, Blattner uses a downward-looking perspective, rendered in severe black and white tones, to express the hurried pace of life in New York, delineating the sometimes painful anonymity that the city inflicts on its denizens. Rather than singling out the viewer as another nameless outsider, Blattner shows that this feeling of anonymity is shared. In this particular work, everyone is a copy of themselves; the same solid black color that forms a person’s body also forms his insubstantial shadow.

Exhibition Dates: July 7 - July 27, 2018

Reception: Thursday July 12, 2018 6-8 PM

Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm

Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, New York, NY

Event URL: https://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Angela_Blattner.aspx

Featured Artists:

Monica Adams | Francis Annan Affotey | Yu He | Angela Blattner | Ilaria Castagnacci | Boguslawa Czarnecka | Fiorenza D'Orazi | Jutta Ebeling-Dehnhard | Ashraf Elsharif | Marco Henrie | Ketan Kelkar | Gunter Langer | Pino Lavecchia | Taikyu Lim | Susan Marx | Andreas Meer | Mireille Pizzo | Mileidy Plata | J.H. Rebelato | Linda Rosen | Marliese Scheller | Christine Stettner | Richard Tomlin | Gonzalo Urrea Correa | Germán Valles Fernández | Hugo Ximello-Salido

About the Exhibition

The Figure and Unknown Places is an exhibition featuring twenty-six international painters and photographers exploring the connections between humans and the world we inhabit. Working between landscape painting and portraiture, the artists included reassess traditions and convey unique perspectives on timeless themes. Utilizing diverse visual languages, these artists provide fresh insight on engrained understandings of culture and nature, man and animal.

About Agora Gallery

Agora Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located in the heart of Chelsea’s fine art district in New York. Established in 1984, Agora Gallery specializes in connecting art dealers and collectors with national and international artists. The art gallery’s expert consultants are available to assist corporate and private clients in procuring original artwork to meet their organization’s specific needs and budget requirements. With a strong online presence and popular online gallery, ARTmine, coupled with the spacious and elegant physical gallery space, the work of our talented artists, who work in diverse media and styles, can receive the attention it deserves. Over the years Agora Gallery has sponsored and catered to special events aimed at fostering social awareness and promoting the use of art to help those in need.