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Alison Rogers is a freelance writer who received her B.A. in English and Creative Writing from New York University . She has written for The Black Table, Wiggin Magazine, Digital Brooklyn and for galleries in Chelsea . She currently writes for Carnet Travel, a travel guide that features reviews of galleries and museums from around the world. She lives in New York City.
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Aaron DeLand is a freelance writer, artist and graphic designer. He earned a B.A. in Media, Society, and the Arts from Purchase College , and an M.A. in Studio Art from Adelphi University . He is currently entrenched in the publishing industry doing layout design and text revisions for such clients as John Wiley, Harper Collins, and Bulfinch Press. Aaron DeLand lives and works in New York City. |
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Carla Barger is a writer and book artist. She holds an M.F.A. in Writing from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago . Carla has published fiction, poetry, and art criticism and collaborates with visual artists on a wide range of projects. She is a full-time writer and artist and is a member of the Splat Flats artists' community in Chicago where she currently lives and works.
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Shetia Mays is an Atlanta-based freelance writer. Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta Tribune, Upscale, Comedy and the California Quarterly. She is the co-founder of Artmix Atlanta and is a member of the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists
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Stephanie Nikolopoulos is a writer and editor in New York City. She has earned certifications in art history from the University of Salzburg, Austria, and editing from New York University. Her writing has been published in books, magazines, and newspapers, both in print and online.
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Current Reviews:
New Art from Australia and New Zealand in Chelsea
Australian art critic and inveterate curmudgeon Robert Hughes once stated somewhat patronizingly that Australian art and by implication, that of New Zealand as well was “purely a product of isolation.” But that opinion no longer appears to hold true, given the level of high purpose and sophistication on view in “Out From Down Under & Beyond: The Australian & New Zealand Art Exhibition,” at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from May 10 through 30 (Reception Thursday, May 15, 6 to 8 PM). Inna Moshkovich: Nature in the Abstract
Just how successful Moshkovich is at translating the particulars of landscape into purely painterly terms can be seen in the exhibition “Out From Down Under & Beyond” at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from May 10 to 30 (Reception: May 15 from 6 to 8 PM). In both her acrylic paintings and innovative wool collages, Moshkovich captures a sense of light and movement that brings her compositions alive in a unique manner. Universal Connections in the Art of Anicée
Although Anicée also asserts that she strives to achieve “universality” in her art, as far as one knows, she has special interest in the art of China and Japan , having more than enough in her own background to inspire her. Yet a kinship with Asian art manifests nonetheless, not only stylistically but in Anicée's approach to nature, judging from the work on view in the exhibition “Abstract Concepts,” on view at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from May 10 to 30, with a reception on May 15 from 6 to 8 PM.
New Directions in Photography Seen in Chelsea
That no other art form has progressed as rapidly as photography in the past half century should come as no surprise to viewers of “Tripping the Light Fantastic¬¬ The Fine Art Photography Exhibition,” at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from April 18 through May 8. (Reception: Thursday, April 24, 2008, from 6 to 8 PM.) Exploring the Ongoing Evolution of Digital Art
Practically everyone fools around with computers these days, but only the highly talented sidestep facile special effects to create genuine works of art, such as those featured in “Pixel Perfect: ¬¬The Digital Fine Art Exhibition,” at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from April 18 through May 8 (Reception: April 24, from 6 to 8 PM).
The Paintings of Javier Iturbe Unite Two Diverse Traditions
One of the most interesting things about the Spanish artist Javier Iturbe, whose oils on canvas and panel can be seen in “Persistence of Form,” at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from March 25 through April 15 (Reception March 27, 6 to 8 PM), is the synthesis he has created between Cubism and Surrealism. Discovering the Emotional Expressionism of Efrain Cruz
Born in Veracruz Mexico , now living and working in Valdosta , Georgia , Efrain Cruz is a “natural,” judging from the work on view in “The Allegory of Form,” at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street from February 5 through 26. (Reception: Thursday, February 7, from 6 to 8PM.)
Life-Affirming Symbolism in the Art of Patrice Goubeau
A fantastic vision is heightened by the liberal use of chiaroscuro to lend atmospheric drama to the acrylic paintings of Patrice Goubeau, a winner of the coveted Grand Prize award from the Salon des Artistes Francais, at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street , from February 5 through 26. (Reception: Thursday February 7, 6 to 8 PM.) Contemporary Art Informed by the Legacy of Greece and Italy
It is a daunting task to review an exhibition as sweeping in scope as "The Odyssey Within: An Exhibition of Fine Art From Italy and Greece," So overwhelming is its bounty of stylistic diversity that most one can do is try to provide the reader with an overview of the various tendencies flourishing in those two Mediterranean countries both with richly documented artistic legacies dating from antiquity to the present and recommend that he or she make a point of visiting the gallery.
Markus Maria Saufhaus: A Gentler Approach to Expressionism
If every artist can be said to have had a formative experience which spurred the creative urge, for the German painter Markus Maria Saufhaus, it was seeing a photograph as a child of "The Tower of the Blue Horses," a painting by Franz Marc, a leading member of the Blaue Reiter group
Materiality and Meaning in the Art of Monica Marioni
Born in Italy in 1972, Monica Marioni seems to synthesize some of the most dynamic developments in modern Italian art to forge her own unique postmodern style in an exhibition on view at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from December 14, 2007 to January 3, 2008. (Reception Thursday, December 20, from 6 to 8 PM.) A Global Photographic Survey Comes to Chelsea
International trends in contemporary art photography are featured in "Tripping the Light Fantastic," at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from November 20 through December 11. (Reception Thursday, November 29, 6 to 8 PM.) Katrina Read Extends Australia's Legacy of Nature Painting
Katrina Read has stated that she wishes her work to "capture a sense of calm and peace" and to achieve "a form of connectedness through each painting with the viewer," and she succeeds splendidly in this series Jacqueline Rosenberg's Aesthetic Mutations of Beauty and Power
Rosenberg is well aware of being at odds with traditional sexual politics when she asserts that the women in her pictures are "strong, emancipated and sexy," adding that showing sensuality "is a powerful means to express emancipation, as opposed to the classical feminist that somehow denies femininity." Carol Reeves: Still Life as Safe Haven
Matisse once said that he wanted his paintings to be "like a comfortable armchair for the viewer" and this seems a statement with which Carol Reeves might readily agree, judging from the amiable appeal of the paintings she is showing at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from November 20th through December 11. (Reception Thursday, November 29,
6 to 8 PM.)
James Kandt's "Abstract Realism": Best of Two Worlds
The personal synthesis that he has come to refer to as "abstract realism" also harks back, in spirit if not in style, to earlier artists like Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O'Keeffe, pioneering modernists who never abandoned their roots in nature. Evoking Spirit: The Intuitive Transformations of Allan Wash
Certain timeless motifs that occur again and again in native cultures worldwide inform the art of Allan Wash, whose compelling acrylic paintings can be seen at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from October 26 through November 15. Denudation and Redemption in the Digital Art of Keith Kovach
The distinguished art historian Kenneth Clark once made a fine distinction between the nude and the naked. "The word nude.'" Clark pointed out, "carries, in educated usage no uncomfortable undertone." However, "to be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition." Anya Rubin's Paintings Explore Issues
of Human Interconnectedness
That Anya Rubin, an artist who appears haunted by the spiritual meaning of our innate interconnectedness, raises such questions, without attempting to answer them in some pathway, makes her work philosophically, as well as aesthetically, intriguing
The Living Line of John Porro at Agora Gallery
Although it has always been vitally important, the very armature on which visual art rests, only over the last couple of decades has drawing achieved recognition as a complete form of expression, rather than a vehicle for preliminary studies for work in other mediums...
Group Show Brings Art from the British Isles to Chelsea
United in Art,” an exhibition of fine art from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland , presents a varied sampling of emerging and established tendencies from the United Kingdom and its territories at Agora Gallery...
“Vivid Portrayals” of Personal Sensibility
The journey from his South African origins to the artist's community of Williamsburg , Brooklyn , where he now lives and works, has obviously been a fruitful one for Kevin Connolly Gillespie, whose allegorical surrealism is included in the group show “Vivid Portrayals,”... Postmodern Mythmakers
Two artists exemplified a tendency that might be termed "the new mythology," in recent exhibitions at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, in Chelsea:
A Group Show in Which the Human Spirit Manifests in Form
The Manifestation of Form” features artists who have evolved distinctive approaches to the human figure, ranging from exacting portraits to symbolic fantasy, at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street , in Chelsea , from June 1 through 21. (Reception: Thursday, June 7, from 6 to 8 pm.)... The Adventurous Aesthetic of the Spanish Painter Javier Iturbe
I have been searching for a subjective and intimate message among different shapes and images, so that the spectators create their own idea,” states the Spanish artist Javier Iturbe, whose paintings are on view at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street , from June 1 through 21. (Reception: Thursday, June 7, from 6 to 8 PM.)...
Chelsea Group Show Celebrates the Poetry of Subjective Vision
The paintings of Mounia Dadi, an artist born in Casablanca , Morocco , exemplify the eclectic pleasures to be found in “The Rapture of Form,” at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street , in Chelsea , from June 26 through July 17. (Reception: Thursday, June 28, 6 to 8 pm...
Freedom is Foremost in Su Goddard's Flowing Watercolors
The English painter Su Goddard's family came from Norfolk , a place associated in the early nineteenth century with the “ Norwich School ,” whose most important representative was the watercolorist John Sell Cotman. Goddard is also distantly related by marriage to J.M.W. Turner, another great British artist who, along with his celebrated oils, also produced remarkable watercolors...
Emerging Artists from Australia and New Zealand in Chelsea
While Robert Hughes's "The Art of Australia" was the definitive tome on the subject when it was first published in 1966, it is clear that artists in that region of the world now have more pressing priorities than throwing off the influence of European and American models. Proof of their autonomous aesthetic identity is on view in "Out From Down Under and Beyond"...
Luzerne Odell Revives the Heroic Figure for a New Age
The knowledge that we are all born alone and must ultimately die alone makes the human figure in isolation a powerful subject one which resonates deep within the communal psyche. This seems especially true when the artist who depicts this subject appears as innately empathetic as Luzerne Odell, a native of Phoenix, Arizona... Diverse Styles Animate Agora Gallery's "Collective Exhibition"
A veritable plethora of representational and abstract approaches are seen in "Collective Exhibition", at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, from April 10 through May 1...
Postmodern Classicism in the Photo Collages of Alex Hiam
It is this multiplicity, this crazy simultaneity that Alex Hiam apprehends in his large format limited edition photographic collages, with their cinematic juxtapositions of body parts, architectural details, and various other facets of our daily environment, presented within dynamic geometric compositions...
Tradition Meets Innovation in Postmodern Photography
Perhaps the most prevalent trend in contemporary photography is a turning away from technical trickery toward a more "purist" approach, indicated by the number of photographic artists who eschew digital means (and, some cases, even color) in the excellent exhibition "Tripping the Light Fantastic"...
Review Archives:
An Abiding Affection for Humanity Animates
the Art of Allyson Norwood Bush
Mia Gjerdrum Helgesen: Memory in the Abstract
Emile Azar: A Painter Whose Work is Full of Surprises
Beyond Borders: January 2007 -
an Exhibition of Fine Art from Canada
Lalevga: Scoring the Ore Beneath the Painted Surface
The Persistence of Form: December 2006
Nishikawa, Prapopoulos, and Doolittle: Three Solo Shows at Agora Gallery Exemplify Postmodern Attitudes
Masters of Imagination: October 2006 - Latin American fine art
Tripping the Light Fantastic: September 2006 - fine art photography
Pixel Perfect: May 2006 - digital fine art exhibition
Out From Down Under and Beyond: May 2006
Masters of Imagination: March 2006 - Latin American fine art
Tripping the Light Fantastic: March
2006 - fine art photography
Spiritual Auras Illuminate the Domestic Scenes of MG deButts
Mauricio Toulumsis: Secular Icons of a Painter's Spiritual Search
Verve and Reverence - The Paintings of Giannis Stratis
Terry Amburgey - The Image as Radical Narrative
Corey West - California Dreaming: The Abstract Imagination
Kristine Gade Hansen - A Fertile Hybrid Style
Melanie Prapopoulos - Synthesis of the Physical and the Ethereal
Jolanta Paterek - Material Odes to Purification and Redemption
Cliff Kearns - The Meaning in Numbers
Harry C. Doolittle - Vibrant Postmodern Mandalas
Otimcke - the Latin American Fine Art Exhibition
Anton Franz Hoger - The Muse of Paradox
Katrin Alvarez-Schlueter - Matrix Of The Mind
Seco - The Gesture of Harmony
Fabian Mowszowicz - Solo Exhibition
Jung Wha Ahn
Niguel Bowen-Morris
Andreas Jaeggi
Judith Brust
Brian D. Fox
Léon Kipping
Glenn Lawrence Liddy
Hye Ja Moon
Fernand Vanderplancke
Helmet Priess
Miguel Paredes
Marga Duin
Pixel
Perfect: December 2005 - Digital Fine Art Exhibition
Masters of the Imagination: October 2005 - Latin American Fine
art
Tripping the
Light Fantastic: September 2005 - Fine art photography
2005 SoHo-Chelsea
International Fine Art Competition:
July 2005 - selected artists
Pixel
Perfect: December 2004 Digital Fine Art
2004 SoHo-Chelsea International Fine Art Competition: July 2004 - selected artists
Tripping the Light Fantastic: September 2003 Fine Art Photography
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