NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Bern artist Arlette Zurbuchen in Idiosyncratic Expressions. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.
Playing with form, pattern, shape, and modern experience, Arlette Zurbuchen paints performative pieces in acrylic on canvas. She depicts theatrical subjects with both an attention to realistic portrayal and alteration. By fragmenting planes of color and shape, and skewing the size or background of images, Zurbuchen simultaneously renders each piece an honest depiction of costume and personal alteration, and an altered portrayal of honesty and reality. In many of her works, Zurbuchen fills backgrounds with pattern. This creates planes of space that are uniform in color and subject while at the same time varying slightly with each hand-painted repetition. Saturated pigments recur in many of the works, creating lively, present images. The mysterious nature of humanity is a central focus of much of Zurbuchen’s work, as she balances silhouettes, distorted figures, and bright colors to construct works that range from surreal to humorous.
Born in Bern, Switzerland, Arlette Zurbuchen works in theater direction as well as painting. Much of her work balances the same artifice and humanity present in the world of performance.
Exhibition Dates: October 14, 2016 – November 3, 2016
Reception: Thursday October 20, 2016, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Arlette_Zurbuchen.aspx
Featured Artists:
Idiosyncratic Expressions
Yetty Elzas | Luz Letts | Maria Bayardo | Susan Marx | Kerstin Lundin | Nomi Knecht | Rody | Mark Salevitz | Brenda Ness-Cooper | Laura Colantonio | Sandra Mueller-Dick | Henrik Sjöström | Alexander Telin | Arlette Zurbuchen
About the Exhibition
Agora Gallery is pleased to announce Idiosyncratic Expressions, a group exhibition featuring forteen artists who look at the world and see something fantastic, in every sense of the word. Idiosyncratic Expressions offers the entire range of observational to surreal to non-representational, in painting and sculpture. One participant offers an extreme close-up of figures and the things they leave behind – clothing, boats, flowers arranged in vases – at angles no one could achieve naturally. Another depicts pure textures floating through space in a novel three-dimensional use of paint. Still another paints scenes that can never be: a unicorn lying at a woman’s feet, or a watering hole full of animals in the middle of a city street. Though their creators come from all around the globe and all levels of artistic education, the works in this exhibition share boldness of color, subject matter, and purpose. Each artist’s perspective is unique and highly personal to their own experience.
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