NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Birsen Yurdaer 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.
The strikingly patterned and textured art of Birsen Yurdaer is evocative of the building blocks of life at the micro level. At first glance, they remind the viewer of fractal patterns found in nature, blood cells under a microscope, and atomic particles. But even though these pieces are rooted in the subatomic world, it is the spiritual world Yurdaer peers into as she works. A practicing Sufi, Yurdaer seeks understanding of the universe, its creator, and human beings’ place in cosmology, by meditating on the tiniest elements that make up our existence and blowing them up to the macro level in her paintings. By doing so, she presents what is invisible to the human eye in a forcibly tactile, bold, and arresting way, altering how her viewers look at the cosmos and, above all, themselves.
Yurdaer graduated with a degree in dentistry from Marmara University, and has been known to use dental equipment as sculptural elements in her pieces, along with ceramics and metal. She is currently a dentist in Istanbul, Turkey.
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/Birsen_Yurdaer.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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