NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Naini Kumar in Enigmatic Visions. The exhibition opens July 28, 2017 and runs through August 17, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, August 3 from 6-8 pm.
The bright, effervescent paintings of Naini Kumar have the luminous effect of a stained glass window, appearing as if they are mosaics made of light and color. Painting with short, swift brush strokes, Kumar describes his compositions as bursting out of him in a rush of creativity, a synthesis of all the accumulated scenes and images he absorbs in his daily life. Working intuitively, he develops shapes and forms gradually, until the vision of the picture becomes clear to him. He mainly paints still lifes and flora, but he has also recently expanded to include purely abstract images. There’s a sense of continuity and movement in all Kumar’s work, and a feeling that the picture can extend beyond the frame. Kumar’s paintings reflect the artist's intense passion for and knowledge of art.
Kumar was born in Jhansi, India. He later extended his studies in the United Kingdom. Currently, Kumar and his family divide their time between the UK and India.
Exhibition Dates: July 28 – August 17, 2017
Reception: Thursday, August 3, 2017, 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/Naini_Kumar.aspx
Featured Artists:
Annette Balsgaard | Antonio Biagiotti | Olena Bogatska | D. L. Brabander | James Chisholm | Anna Galea | Yuki Goodman | Larry Greenberg | Naini Kumar | Linco7n. | Jonathan Mann | Tammy Phillips | Elizabeth Sabine | Mark W. Malone
About the Exhibition
Enigmatic Visions
Enigmatic Visions is a new group exhibition from Agora Gallery highlighting a range of exceptionally thoughtful work from eleven contemporary artists. In watercolor, photography, oil, ink, and acrylic, the participants find exciting new ways to create focus. One painter reduces the seascape to a single color, using a palette that is at once strict and infinitely flexible in its endless shades of blue. Another draws all the textural possibilities out of just one kind of brushstroke. A third uses abstraction to surround and isolate his subjects. Enigmatic Visions uses the traditional themes of domesticity, nature, and formal beauty to dive deeper into the details of everyday life.
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