NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Marlene Kurland 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.
With oil on canvas Marlene Kurland reflects on what it is to be human. Her images observe people in everyday situations, meeting with friends and family or on a day out at the beach. Cellphones often appear in her work, emblems of the modern experience of the social placed amidst more traditional imagery. Kurland’s loose style, which she deems realistic impressionism, and attention to social gatherings mingle to create works that are loose, joyful, and sometimes witty. Her newest cellphone series comments on the captivation many feel with their smart phones, both by observing modern gatherings dotted with people glued to their phones and by inserting the imagery into classic films and artworks. With vibrant colors and attention to light, Kurland establishes the shimmering atmosphere of a beach at mid-day or the cosy essence of an evening meal, and the figures who inhabit each.
Working in her home studios, dividing her time between Maryland and Florida, Kurland loves to create on large canvases, using broad brush strokes, as she paints the colors of human emotions and loving relationships. Kurland is also often commissioned for family paintings, ordered by collectors from all over the world and inspired by their favorite photos. Her colors come from life; she paints them brightly and startlingly intense. Kurland uses her oils to layer on spirit and depth, as she gets to the souls of her subjects. Often her work stems from personal experiences, and she is invariably drawn to the complexity of human subjects.
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/Marlene_Kurland.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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