NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of NYC artist Hallie Hart in Kaleidoscope of the Mind. The exhibition will open on December 29, 2016 and run through January 18, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, December 29 from 6-8 PM.
Hallie Hart calls her works “a dance of body and paint.” Forgoing the use of brushes, she uses her hands to apply her paints, working suspended from a catwalk while her canvases are placed on the floor. Citing such artists as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning as influences, Hart shares their unconventional take on the relationship between painter and canvas, as well as their dynamic conception of line, color and space. But with her clean, sharp sense of composition, she brings the spirit and approach of Abstract Expressionism into a fresh, modern setting.
Her images combine drips of paint with such elements as bold geometric lines, creating canvases that buzz with energy, their dense patterns and striking color combinations keeping the viewer’s eye in motion while also radiating harmony and balance. Working in acrylics, Hart uses their bold, vivid colors—from deep blacks to bright yellows—to maximum effect in her paintings, giving each one a multi-layered quality that greatly enhances its physical power. Hart lives and works in the New York City area.
Exhibition Dates: December 29, 2016 – January 18, 2017
Reception: Thursday December 29, 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/Hallie_Hart.aspx
Featured Artists:
Kaleidoscope of the Mind
Mark Reese | Regina Krugel | Fahim Somani | Irma Lescinskaite | Hallie Hart | Helen Rosenkranz | Alejandra Burguette
About the Exhibition
Kaleidoscope of the Mind: Messages From The Cutting Edge
Agora Gallery begins the new year with Kaleidoscope of the Mind, an illuminating expedition into the latest in contemporary art. The exhibition showcases both abstract and surreal-tinged images, with an emphasis on painting. The most striking thing about all six participants is their willingness to experiment. One artist combines frenzied splashes of paint with precise compositional elements, and executes the entire painting while suspended on a catwalk above it. Another painter depicts physical and emotional pain with slashes in the canvas itself. A mixed-media artist juxtaposes the orderliness of silky, painted writing with the primal chaos of resin, resulting in pieces of unusual visual depth. There is one purely representational artist in the exhibition, whose oils dance with such vibrant and unexpected colors that they seem to come from a brighter reality than ours. Kaleidoscope of the Mind is a beautifully candid, cohesive exhibition of the freshest ideas most skillfully brought to life.
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