NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Bobbie See in Contemporary Perspectives. The exhibition opens April 1, 2017 and runs through April 21, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, April 6 from 6-8 pm.
For Bobbie See, painting is a process of discovery. Over the 30 years that she has been painting, See has combined styles and media to produce a body of work that brings the force and beauty of nature alive while also discovering patterns that have their own distinctive presence. Her images capture the textures of the forest—from delicate leaves to rough bark—in sharp detail, but they complement that realism with a focused attention to line and color as elements that have their own independent existence.
Working in oils and acrylics, See is keenly aware of the potential each type of paint provides. “I love the blending of an oil paint, but the forgiveness of an acrylic,” she says. Her recent pieces, done mostly in acrylics, make the most of their clarity of tone and texture to enhance the physical presence of each tree she depicts as well as the precise lines and arcs of her compositions. The resulting works are vivid documents of the world around her as well as striking representations of a more abstract, internal universe.
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/Bobbie_See.aspx
Featured Artists:
Contemporary Perspectives
Lauralee Franco | Fariba Baghi | Craig Frankowski | Stephanie E. Graham | Gail Comes | Bobbie See
About the Exhibition
Contemporary Perspectives: The New Art History
Agora Gallery is pleased to present Contemporary Perspectives, a new collective exhibition highlighting all the ways which show that the past and present are in constant dialogue. Contemporary Perspectives assembles a small group of artists who approach classic subject matter with fresh eyes. Their work contains echoes of art history while managing to be entirely forward-thinking.
Half of the six featured artists work in oil. One depicts romantic landscapes as a series of highly stylized, streamlined patterns. The second paints florals, with an updated hyperrealism and irregular canvases. The third paints portraits that are composed as traditional reverential busts. However the colors are saturated, the body language is animated, and her subjects are women of color, a historically overlooked group. There are two acrylic painters: one creates dramatic visions of completely imaginary forests, and other places realistic figures in foggy, abstracted landscapes. The last artist works in ink and mixed-media to create meticulous botanicals that recall both scientific catalogues and the watercolor works of nineteenth-century leisure painters.
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