NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Olena Bogatska in Enigmatic Visions. The exhibition opens July 28, 2017 and runs through August 17, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, August 3 from 6-8 pm.
The oil paintings of Olena Bogatska are at once wonderfully dreamy and grounded in the everyday. On paper, Bogatska’s pieces seem to be traditional still lifes: flowers in vases, fresh fruit, quaintly striped tablecloths and linens. Her flowers are lovingly and precisely rendered, from alliums to yarrow, containing multilayered inner life.
Bogatska’s compositions are incredibly spare. They often contain only a single visual element - one animal, or one grouping of vases on a table. The background is simply a sheet of texture. The palette is stripped down so Bogatska can examine the nuances of one hue. Her studies of flowers treat a single bloom as a main character in the painting. Her images of vast things, such as a storm at sea, are examined at close range. She paints the portrait of an entire ocean using just one seagull atop the crest of one wave.
Bogatska was born in the Ukraine and studied art in London.
Exhibition Dates: July 28 – August 17, 2017
Reception: Thursday, August 3, 2017, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Olena_Bogatska.aspx
Featured Artists:
Annette Balsgaard | Antonio Biagiotti | Olena Bogatska | D. L. Brabander | James Chisholm | Anna Galea | Yuki Goodman | Larry Greenberg | Naini Kumar | Linco7n. | Jonathan Mann | Tammy Phillips | Elizabeth Sabine | Mark W. Malone
About the Exhibition
Enigmatic Visions
Enigmatic Visions is a new group exhibition from Agora Gallery highlighting a range of exceptionally thoughtful work from eleven contemporary artists. In watercolor, photography, oil, ink, and acrylic, the participants find exciting new ways to create focus. One painter reduces the seascape to a single color, using a palette that is at once strict and infinitely flexible in its endless shades of blue. Another draws all the textural possibilities out of just one kind of brushstroke. A third uses abstraction to surround and isolate his subjects. Enigmatic Visions uses the traditional themes of domesticity, nature, and formal beauty to dive deeper into the details of everyday life.
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