NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Chinese artist Chen Jin in The Saturated Palette. The exhibition opens March 10, 2017 and runs through March 30, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, March 16 from 6-8 pm.
The acrylic paintings of Chinese artist Chen Jin reflect the recent modernization and globalization of China within the framework of traditional Chinese arts. Referencing the elaborate decorative patterns found on Chinese ceramics, as well as Taihu rockery–complex, pitted, and variegated limestone rocks found near the Taihu Lake that are often used in Chinese garden design and for scholarly meditation–Jin comments on the complexity of Chinese culture, the introduction of technology, and the push-pull between harmony and conflict, custom and innovation. His work is filled with bold, bright colors, fantastical shapes, polka dots, and movement. Jin's unique style brings excitement of a bright new future held in check by a sense of the mysterious.
Jin graduated with a degree in painting in Beijing, and currently lives in Shanghai, where he works as a painter and designer. He says he believes art can transcend any cultural boundaries: “It will touch the bottom of the human commonality... and does not require language interpretation, the work itself can explain everything.”
Exhibition Dates: March 10, 2017 – March 30, 2017
Reception: Thursday, March 16, 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/Chen_Jin.aspx
Featured Artists:
The Saturated Palette
Olivia Kapoor | Ping Lian Yeak | Vanitira | Jessica Watson-Thorp | Susana Rapallo | Han-Yuan Yu | Maria Fernandez Gold | Irina Goryunova | Chen Jin
About the Exhibition
The Saturated Palette
Agora Gallery is pleased to present The Saturated Palette, a riotous new group exhibition that explores an array of intense visual expressions. All ten artists featured here employ an extreme of some sort, be it tone, shape, texture – or, more frequently, a combination of several. Color is of course the main player, and the exhibition’s large range offers examples of how it is deployed to depict people, places, and ideas. We see it in bright, playful bursts, but also in more unexpected ways. In some works, the standout color is used only sparingly in the frame; in others, it serves to highlight an element of the subject matter, or even to underline the artist’s larger idea about pattern or line. With oil, pastels, and encaustic, several artists show us how a canvas can include only subtle or darker colors that nevertheless completely infuse the image. In this exhibition, techniques are taken to their limit and the curious are rewarded.
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