NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Annika Carlsson in Spatial Fluidity. The exhibition opens April 1, 2017 and runs through April 21, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, April 6 from 6-8 pm.
Annika Carlsson's elegant non-representational paintings present visuals that are both dreamlike and perfectly focused. The works, which are often over three feet tall and squared rather than rectangular, show a patchwork of shapes and colors that Annika says reveal her Scandinavian influences. Each piece features a color grouping around a central light, bright tone: turquoises and kelly greens to complement a periwinkle, or indigos and ceruleans to go with a lavender. Annika chooses a single contrasting hue and uses it sparingly, to underline the scheme and create depth.
Compositionally, anyone from Mondrian to Seurat can be picked out in Annika's orderly work. Colors appear in geometric blocks and circles, but they are obviously hand-painted. They feature the slight texture and irregularity that come with the brushstroke. The paintings are thoughtful collections of forms. They ask the viewer to interpret space, overlap, and the inherent tension in combining order and chaos.
Annika was born in Helsingborg, Sweden and has also lived in New York City. She has also owned her own interior design store.
Exhibition Dates: April 1, 2017 – April 21, 2017
Reception: Thursday, April 6, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Annika_Carlsson.aspx
Featured Artists:
Spatial Fluidity
Sheree Friedman | Erin Cooke | Pedro Alberti | Nello Petrucci | Isabelita | Annika Carlsson | GIDJA | Ian A. Matthews | Birsen Yurdaer
About the Exhibition
Spatial Fluidity: Interacting With Art
Some of the most innovative artists working outside the picture place will come together this April at Agora Gallery in Spatial Fluidity, a new collective exhibition. A celebration of three-dimensionality in all its forms, Spatial Fluidity interrogates how a piece of art should exist in the world. Is it purely a visual entity? Does it enter the viewer's space? Is it static or does it change as the viewer moves?
The exhibition includes nine artists. There is a wide range of mixed-media work, ranging from pieces that are subtly textured to canvases that forcefully protrude and recede into so-called "real" space. There are collages that intermingle newspaper clippings and photographs, or defy expectations by coating everything in a reflective glaze. There are also single-media paintings that emphasize the physical aspects of their material, such as the plastic quality of acrylic. Much of the art is abstract, so that the viewer may focus on broader visual sensations rather than put together three-dimensionality with a representational narrative.
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