Henrik Sjöström: Tangled Lines

Oct 25
10:55

2016

Maria Stella

Maria Stella

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NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Scottsdale artist Henrik Sjöström in Idiosyncratic Expressions. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.

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Henrik Sjöström describes his colorful abstracts as inspired by a mix of "current international events,Henrik Sjöström: Tangled Lines Articles art, movies, music, books, and mythology." Using acrylic, spray paint, and ink pens, Sjöström creates intense patterns in the darkest black that swirls on backgrounds of spacey color. They are dense pieces that close off on themselves, resembling anything from family crests to black holes.

Sjöström's patterns display a compositional sophistication that combines textures made from color, line, and less definable materiality. His pen work creates whirls of thick cords and thin web-like spindles. His acrylic paint dances underneath these dramatic lines, playing a softer counter-tune. Though his palette is no less intense in paint, he uses clouds and washes to temper the lines. When Sjöström depicts real-life objects, he infuses them with the same dramatic shadows and daring line work. Images are flattened and turned into fascinating maps of high contrast, with contouring lines picking out peaks and valleys.

Sjöström was born in Stockholm, Sweden and today lives and works in Sipoo, Finland. He has exhibited all around both countries as well as in the United States.

 

Exhibition Dates: October 14, 2016 – November 3, 2016

Reception: Thursday October 20, 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/Henrik_Sjostrom.aspx

 

Featured Artists:

Idiosyncratic Expressions

Yetty Elzas  |  Luz Letts  |  Maria Bayardo  |  Susan Marx  |  Kerstin Lundin  |  Nomi Knecht  |  Rody  |  Mark Salevitz  |  Brenda Ness-Cooper  |  Laura Colantonio  |  Sandra Mueller-Dick  |  Henrik Sjöström  |  Alexander Telin  |  Arlette Zurbuchen

 

About the Exhibition

Agora Gallery is pleased to announce Idiosyncratic Expressions, a group exhibition featuring forteen artists who look at the world and see something fantastic, in every sense of the word. Idiosyncratic Expressions offers the entire range of observational to surreal to non-representational, in painting and sculpture. One participant offers an extreme close-up of figures and the things they leave behind – clothing, boats, flowers arranged in vases – at angles no one could achieve naturally. Another depicts pure textures floating through space in a novel three-dimensional use of paint. Still another paints scenes that can never be: a unicorn lying at a woman’s feet, or a watering hole full of animals in the middle of a city street. Though their creators come from all around the globe and all levels of artistic education, the works in this exhibition share boldness of color, subject matter, and purpose. Each artist’s perspective is unique and highly personal to their own experience.