NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Donna Broder in the Elemental Realms. The exhibition opens May 19, 2017 and runs through June 8, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, May 25 from 6-8 pm.
Donna Broder's monotype prints beautifully combine representational and non-representational elements. Her compositions are uncluttered, built only out of a few thoughtful shapes. In each piece, somewhere in the pattern of shadows and light, Broder allows the eye to grab hold of something that resembles a body, a face, a window - something recognizable while still covered in wild colors and textures.
From oil paints to monotype printing, Broder is open to several different techniques of painting and printmaking. This freedom and willingness to experiment is reflected in her hand, which is loose on the page and with the palette. She creates shapes from exuberant, broad strokes and vibrant color choices that coalesce to suggest depth. Broder is an expert at exploring subtleties of tone to conjure a scene that is both abstract and grounded.
Broder was born in Colorado and today lives in northern California, where she maintains a home studio for both painting and ceramics. She has studied these disciplines, along with printmaking, all over the United States as well as in Italy and France.
Exhibition Dates: May 19, 2017 – June 8, 2017
Reception: Thursday, May 25, 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/Donna_Broder.aspx
Featured Artists:
Elemental Realms
Donna Broder | Wojciech Tut ChechliDski | Bulsby "Buzz" Duncan | Iftah Geva | Marlene Kurland | Isabella S. Minichmair | F. Pavon | Kankan Ramos | Menno Vos
About the Exhibition
Elemental Realms
Agora Gallery presents a modern exploration of texture with the new collective exhibition Elemental Realms. This exhibition covers both abstraction and figurative imagery and includes purely visual surfaces as well as more three-dimensional mixed-media pieces that resemble friezes. Several artists play with paint; it is blotted, it is thinned, it is slicked down, and dry paint is even cracked to create deep shadows. Wrapped up too in these physical manipulations is the way colors blend into one another - or don't. Elsewhere, one artist mixes acrylic with explosions of gold leaf to create a new sub-genre of painting, and another splatters thin ropes of paint in endless layers in a kind of two-dimensional scaffolding. Elemental Realms investigates the ways in which texture conveys information, emotion, and environment
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