NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Mali Lasker in the Portal to Dreams. The exhibition opens May 19, 2017 and runs through June 8, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, May 25 from 6-8 pm.
Mentored in the past by the “Wandering Painter,” the late Moshe Proppes and today by the famous painter Ran Tenenbaum, Mali Lasker was initially a figurative painter. However, the technological revolution and ensuing cultural changes shifted the focus of her work toward a mixture of realism and surrealism marked by an integration of past and future. “I view artistic style as a tool,” Lasker says, “a means of pictorially expressing my inner world and the world as I observe it.”
Painting with oil, Lasker captures the amber glow of lantern light, the shimmering, otherworldly collisions of purples, greens, and blues. Classic statues are frequent subjects in her work, watching over swimmers or gazing at their own reflections. As an artist, Lasker has set two rules for herself. The first is that she must be continuously stimulated by the surrounding world. The second is that she must give this stimulation visual expression. Art has become, for Lasker, a freedom demanding application. “Painting,” she says, “emanates from any and all experiences, passing through myriad filters and extending beyond one style or another.”
Mali Lasker lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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/Mali_Lasker.aspx
Featured Artists:
The Portal to Dreams
Ricardo Vivanco | Stan Adard | Carlos Puig | Julio Lopez Vietri | Alagir | Mali Lasker
About the Exhibition
The Portal to Dreams
Portal to Dreams is a new group exhibition that offers alternative visions of reality expressed through abstraction, surrealism, and technical experimentation. This collection of artists features three painters of the human form: one who creates psychological studies using expressive brushstrokes, one who constructs bodies out of geometrical shapes and tempered colors, and one who paints modern narrative scenes containing bodies treated surrealistically. There is also an abstract oil painter who uses winding lines and textures to create intricate shapes. Finally, there is a digital artist whose richly colored patterns move very slowly in a new kind of genre. The pieces in Portal to Dreams are undeniably bold and forward-thinking.
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