NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of GIDJA in Spatial Fluidity. The exhibition opens April 1, 2017 and runs through April 21, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, April 6 from 6-8 pm.
Abstract painter GIDJA is known for both his soft, saturated watercolors and precise, colorful dot paintings. While these two painting styles may seem in opposition to one another, they are connected through GIDJA’s primary sources of inspiration: nature and spirituality. Whether he’s working with watercolors or painstakingly creating dotted patterns with a feather or twig, GIDJA approaches painting as an act of meditation, letting the paint and colors guide him. He creates without a plan, operating on pure instinct and emotion. While his watercolors are typically pure abstraction, his dot paintings have a more narrative sensibility, and are populated with animals, people, symbols, spirits, and objects. GIDJA favors the dot painting technique because of its connections to indigenous cultures, which he admires for their understanding of spirituality and ecology. It's a simple process but one that requires a great amount of patience.
GIDJA was born and currently lives in Belgium, where’s he’s a practicing osteopath. In many ways, his professional life mirrors his artistic practice: understanding connections and inspiring people to see things in a new way.
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/GIDJA.aspx
Featured Artists:
Spatial Fluidity
Sheree Friedman | Erin Cooke | Pedro Alberti | Nello Petrucci | Isabelita | Annika Carlsson | GIDJA | Ian A. Matthews | Birsen Yurdaer
About the Exhibition
Spatial Fluidity: Interacting With Art
Some of the most innovative artists working outside the picture place will come together this April at Agora Gallery in Spatial Fluidity, a new collective exhibition. A celebration of three-dimensionality in all its forms, Spatial Fluidity interrogates how a piece of art should exist in the world. Is it purely a visual entity? Does it enter the viewer's space? Is it static or does it change as the viewer moves?
The exhibition includes nine artists. There is a wide range of mixed-media work, ranging from pieces that are subtly textured to canvases that forcefully protrude and recede into so-called "real" space. There are collages that intermingle newspaper clippings and photographs, or defy expectations by coating everything in a reflective glaze. There are also single-media paintings that emphasize the physical aspects of their material, such as the plastic quality of acrylic. Much of the art is abstract, so that the viewer may focus on broader visual sensations rather than put together three-dimensionality with a representational narrative.
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