NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Isabella S. Minichmair in the Elemental Realms. The exhibition opens May 19, 2017 and runs through June 8, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, May 25 from 6-8 pm.
Born in Kirchdorf an der Krems, Austria, Isabella S. Minichmair studied Fine Art at the University of Art and Design in Linz, later earning a PhD in Philosophy of Art and Cultural History from the same institution. Her oil paintings, centering on trees and the natural world, are patched together with a rustic palette blending cool and warm colors into a unified whole. “The trees in my pictures stand in a subtle way for people and their relationships,” Minichmair says. “The light on the branches symbolizes the emotions and feelings that prevail between the protagonists.”
Minichmair’s interest in light came from long walks with her father, whose camera became, unfailingly, the third member of their party. Handing it over, Minichmair’s father would instruct her to gaze through the viewfinder. He would say, “Pay particular attention to the light.” She always has. Travels with her mother brought her closer to the Austrian art treasures. Old churches and castles, frescos, paintings and tapestries influenced Minichmair's view of light sustainably. Today, she also designs glass windows to bring new light into old churches. Minichmair wants her work to express both the obstacles and joy of life, which she describes as a gift. “We need courage,” she says, “to make it come alive.”
Isabella S. Minichmair works from her studio in Waldneukirchen, Austria.
Exhibition Dates: May 19, 2017 – June 8, 2017
Reception: Thursday, May 25, 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/Isabella_S._Minichmair.aspx
Featured Artists:
Elemental Realms
Donna Broder | Wojciech Tut ChechliDski | Bulsby "Buzz" Duncan | Iftah Geva | Marlene Kurland | Isabella S. Minichmair | F. Pavon | Kankan Ramos | Menno Vos
About the Exhibition
Elemental Realms
Agora Gallery presents a modern exploration of texture with the new collective exhibition Elemental Realms. This exhibition covers both abstraction and figurative imagery and includes purely visual surfaces as well as more three-dimensional mixed-media pieces that resemble friezes. Several artists play with paint; it is blotted, it is thinned, it is slicked down, and dry paint is even cracked to create deep shadows. Wrapped up too in these physical manipulations is the way colors blend into one another - or don't. Elsewhere, one artist mixes acrylic with explosions of gold leaf to create a new sub-genre of painting, and another splatters thin ropes of paint in endless layers in a kind of two-dimensional scaffolding. Elemental Realms investigates the ways in which texture conveys information, emotion, and environment
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