NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Parisian artist Michael Alberon in Mélange of Milieu. The exhibition opens February 14, 2017 and runs through March 7, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, February 16 from 6-8 pm.
Michael Alberon’s experimental, dream-like paintings are lyrical visions of the body in motion. Alberon often uses both acrylic and oil on the same canvas, with impeccably controlled technique. Paint is doled out with utmost efficiency, texture is achieved with the fewest number of brushstrokes possible, and lines are crisp and sure. These are not minimalist works, but rather images of perfect eloquence. Within this space, Alberon straddles the line between realism and gentle surrealism.
Alberon decribes his artistic approach as being primarily “interested in the human figure and its significance in the art world.” His compositions foreground the body, which is displayed in elaborate positions taken from the classical language of painting. Each work features multiple figures in varied poses that create a beautiful pattern of organic, positive, and negative space. Surrealist touches make up their environments: a colossal fist, a room that recedes from color to black and white, or simply more figures - that fly.
Alberon was born in Paris, France, where he continues to live today. He studied fine art in both Paris and New York City.
Exhibition Dates: February 14, 2017 – March 7, 2017
Reception: Thursday, February 16, 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/Michael_Alberon.aspx
Featured Artists:
Mélange of Milieu
Anna Voloshko | MORLOT Claude | Doris Brown | Yuliya Pogreb | HERMINE | Sa Peng | Yoshiko Kanai | Rita Galambos | Stacie Hernandez | Michael Alberon
About the Exhibition
Mélange of Milieu: Defying Category
This February Agora Gallery presents Mélange of Milieu, a group exhibition highlighting the newest ways to bend genre practiced by artists working today. The eight featured artists hail from the Ukraine, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, and the United States - among others - yet have much to say to each other. The hazy, Impressionistic landscape paintings on one wall seem to both inform and take cues from the brash figural paintings on the next. Mélange of Milieu is unique in the current crop of gallery shows for featuring sculpture as prominently as painting, or indeed any works on paper. The exhibition makes a conscious effort to include a range of three-dimensional works, the result being an unusually revealing look at the field. There are highly realistic bronze figurines of invented animals, sleek and gestural depictions of the moving body in stone, and assemblages of brightly colored wooden blocks that have been both painted and embroidered, in a way, to evoke the patterns of the cosmos.
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