NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Craig Frankowski 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.
The realistic floral still-lifes of American artist Craig Frankowski are colorful, bright, and completely unique. Frankowski’s masterful understanding of color, line, and form is given depth and dimensionality through the artist’s freeform canvases, which he builds and stretches into various shapes, thicknesses, and designs to achieve different effects. Canvases are alternately round, triangular, and tapered, and are often fastened together to create multidimensional forms. Frankowski expands on this by adding LED light effects, windows, and other elements that result in stunning designs that explore the physical aspects of the floral subjects we are all familiar with and the nuances of form that are all too easy to miss.
In addition, there are cubist elements in Frankowski’s style that serve to further flesh out his exploration of form and the way it responds to varying visual contexts and influences. His groundbreaking merging of realism and cubism enables a dynamic approach to traditional still-life that compels the viewer to peer deeper and experience the subject on an entire new level.
Craig Frankowski currently lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.
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/Craig_Frankowski.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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