NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Scottsdale artist Mark Salevitz in Idiosyncratic Expressions. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.
Mark Salevitz aims to capture the uniqueness of cultural experiences by bringing a variety of subjects and landscapes to life, channeling his experiences and memories into vibrant, colorful scenes. Salevitz has always held a deep appreciation for Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, while the unique interplay between movement, color, and perspective in his works often veers into delightful abstraction and painterly realism. To capture the spirits of his subjects, Salevitz employs bright, vivid hues that curve into familiar patterns or take shape as dreamy, loosely defined banks of color. His brushstrokes are soft and lush, creating a soulful meditation for viewers. Whether he’s depicting landscapes and cityscapes, or still lifes of spring blooms, Salevitz’s compositions juxtapose thick textures against finely crafted strokes. Each piece presents an inventive sense of perspective or scale. Subjects are rendered in highly personal spaces, or approached from a distance with awe reserved for the exotic.
Widely appealing in their exuberance, Salevitz’s paintings have been exhibited in galleries, offices, and hospitals. The artist was raised in the Hudson Valley, and has since settled in Arizona.
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/Mark_Salevitz.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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