NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Washington, D.C. artist Leni Berliner in Divergent Realities. The exhibition will open on November 8, 2016 and run through November 30, 2016 with an opening reception on Thursday, November 10 from 6-8 PM.
Leni Berliner creates landscapes that manage to be both serene and celebratory of the inextinguishable beauty of nature. Berliner is interested in many parts of the natural world, from sweeping mountain vistas to faraway sunrises over the ocean. She follows detail - a smattering of raindrops on water - and action - rapids flowing over rocks - in equal part. Adept at capturing both stillness and change, Berliner is an ideal chronicler of the terrain.
It is in her composition and color choices that she imparts the unique perspective that influences, to one degree or another, every one of her works. Berliner describes her composition design as "intuitive." She chooses vistas that include hints about the time before and after her image was painted: where the melting snow is dripping, where the orange light is beaming, where the river is flowing. Her palettes are baseline naturalistic but stylized for contrast to create an emotional resonance. Each work, though whole within itself, tells a story.
Berliner was born in Massachusetts and today lives in Washington, D.C. A longtime acrylic painter, she is also accomplished in three-dimensional mixed media.
Exhibition Dates: November 8, 2016 – November 30, 2016
Reception: Thursday November 10, 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/Leni_Berliner.aspx
Featured Artists:
Divergent Realities
Menno Vos | David J. Marchi | Chantal Roy | Pauli Zmolek | Leni Berliner | Tiko Sanikidze
About the Exhibition
Divergent Realities: The world as it's never been seen
Agora Gallery is pleased to present Divergent Realities, a concentrated and vivacious group exhibition featuring six artists who could not be more different from one another. Three abstract artists are featured: one who builds up thick physical surfaces with his paint, one who uses texture to create trompe-l'oeil images, and one who uses patterns to create three-dimensional effects. All three poke at the boundaries between the picture plane and the viewer's own space. There is a watercolor painter who creates delicate, monochromatic portrayals of life's small details, and a landscape artist who depicts nature as dynamic, color-blocked patterns. A rigorously realistic pencil artist whose works mirror our world closely but represent completely personal experiences fills out the small group. All six artists have created an entire visual universe, complete with rules, possibilities, and impossibilities. These wildly diverse aesthetics are at their best when brought together; next to one another, each artist's unique point of view is thrown into sharp relief.
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