NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Apeldoorn artist Menno Vos 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.
Menno Vos’s abstract paintings explore texture and color as they relate to the natural world. Vos uses techniques of both building and breaking down to create his three-dimensional patterns. He puddles his paint and then scratches deep grooves into it. He layers thin, unbroken drips of paint over abrupt, energetic daubs. His palette swings between jewel tones and glowing brights.
Vos says his inspirations are the “people I meet, images I see and emotions I feel during traveling.” A Vos landscape shows a lakes of rich blue framed by long streaks of green, or a forest made of a mass of lively vertical lines. A typical still life depicts a flower as a burst of color with a stem and leaves: a visual merging of plant, sunlight, and earth. His subject matter is varied by default – he has seen many different terrains – but his aesthetic is mature enough to tie each piece together.
Vos was born in Dordrecht, Holland and today lives in the town of Apeldoorn. He has exhibited around the Netherlands and had his travel photography published in several Dutch magazines.
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/Menno_Vos.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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