NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Chie Hirabayashi in Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition. The exhibition opens August 19, 2017 and runs through August 30, 2017 with an opening reception on Saturday, August 19 from 6-8 pm.
The eerily haunting photographs of Chie Hirabayashi reflect the artist’s cultural background, love of literature, and life experiences. They appear like something out of a fevered dream, an “imbalanced collage of high-contrast hallucination and vague reality.” Using long time exposures and multiple exposures in post-processing, Hirabayashi presents a vision of a ghostly, ruptured world, surreally beautiful and infused with a sense of tranquil intensity. Hirabayashi is especially influenced by the work of two famous Japanese writers, Ryknosuke Akutagawa and KMbM Abe, and considers her photographs a form of visual poetry.
Hirabayashi currently lives in Japan.
Exhibition Dates: August 19 – August 30, 2017
Reception: Saturday, August 19, 2017, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: https://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Chie_Hirabayashi.aspx
Featured Artists:
"KARAK" Bolotbek Karakeev | Allen Capriotti | Joana Cruz | Mario Daniel Quiroga | Kristin Dillon | Adriana Espinosa Calle | Mher Evoyan | Ailon Glitzenstein | Guy | Chie Hirabayashi | Emily Jones | Michel KIRCH | Ian Lee | Christina Marie Chavez Banerjee | Mauro Masin | MENPO | Fran Panza | José María Peña | Donna Pinckley | Jiantao Qu | Gabriel Schiavina | Brian Sesack | Keith Thomson | Yoong Wah Alex Wong | Holly Wilson | Rosanne Wolfe | M Y Yip | Leonard Yang
About the Exhibition
Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition
This August Agora Gallery presents the selected artists of the 2017 Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. As in years past, the work on display is of incredible variety and extraordinary skill. There are precise, spare drawings in the same gallery as maximal, playful sculptures. There are monochrome, graphic paintings that explore repetition hung near hyper realistic still lifes that take inspiration from the classics of centuries past. There are imagined lands and images of human moments that ring with truth. Even two selected landscape photographers defy comparison - some produce stoic, black-and-white views of single trees, while others create expansive vistas in full color. The 2017 jurors' picks share nothing except fearlessness, adroit execution, and unforgettable originality.
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