NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Mexican artist Maria Bayardo in Idiosyncratic Expressions. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.
Mexican artist Maria Bayardo creates sculptures as elegant in line and form as they are expressive in meaning and intent. Working primarily in bronze, fiberglass resin, and fiber, Bayardo strives to infuse a complex web of emotions into each piece: pain, guilt, strength, joy, love, and freedom, to name a few. Bayardo’s work is influenced in part by Picasso and the multidimensional elements he was able to capture in his work, as well as by the 360-degree sculptures of renowned sculptor Giambologna.
There is a significant feminist message in Bayardo’s work, and her artistic path has been a very personal one, inspired by her own journey through relationships and challenges toward a deeper understanding of herself. As Bayardo explains, “You might say that it was the artist within me who discovered the sensual woman I had kept concealed. From this awakening, figures began to emerge in which I found myself reflected and healed many things that freed me.”
Maria Bayardo currently lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico. She has shown her work across the world, including France, Italy, Mexico, Spain and United Kingdom.
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/Maria_Bayardo.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.
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