NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Newfane artist David J. Marchi in Divergent Realities. The exhibition will open on November 8, 2016 and run through November 30, 2016 with an opening reception on Thursday, November 10 from 6-8 PM.
David J. Marchi creates acrylic abstracts that dance with passion and unpredictability. He paints beautiful, riotous gradients, and then creates large-scale graphic designs on top. Often, elements clash – colors, patterns, or lines. His brushstrokes are free-form but his shapes are not; integrity of edge and form is always maintained. Marchi’s pieces are prime examples of energy harnessed.
Marchi paints with three guiding principles: color, texture, and pattern. He finds the vibrations between great contrasts in all three, taking a single painting from smooth to streaked, squared to rounded, and shimmering crimson to deepest blue. Each work is a jungle gym of visual frequencies, and yet Marchi is organized in his complexities – he never leaves a shade out or allows his composition to falter or wane. Once he decides on a graphic pattern, he sticks to it and fills out his canvas with satisfying thoroughness.
Marchi was born in Wallingford, Connecticut and today splits his time between New York City and Newfane, Vermont. He is collected widely, including by celebrities and collectors of abstract art.
Exhibition Dates: November 8, 2016 – November 30, 2016
Reception: Thursday November 10, 2016, 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/David_J._Marchi.aspx
Featured Artists:
Divergent Realities
Menno Vos | David J. Marchi | Chantal Roy | Pauli Zmolek | Leni Berliner | Tiko Sanikidze
About the Exhibition
Divergent Realities: The world as it's never been seen
Agora Gallery is pleased to present Divergent Realities, a concentrated and vivacious group exhibition featuring six artists who could not be more different from one another. Three abstract artists are featured: one who builds up thick physical surfaces with his paint, one who uses texture to create trompe-l'oeil images, and one who uses patterns to create three-dimensional effects. All three poke at the boundaries between the picture plane and the viewer's own space. There is a watercolor painter who creates delicate, monochromatic portrayals of life's small details, and a landscape artist who depicts nature as dynamic, color-blocked patterns. A rigorously realistic pencil artist whose works mirror our world closely but represent completely personal experiences fills out the small group. All six artists have created an entire visual universe, complete with rules, possibilities, and impossibilities. These wildly diverse aesthetics are at their best when brought together; next to one another, each artist's unique point of view is thrown into sharp relief.
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