NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of New Jersey artist Susan Marx in Idiosyncratic Expressions. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.
Susan Marx’s work combines abstraction with the colors of the impressionists. She describes her style as abstract impressionism, a term coined by Elaine de Kooning. Marx calls upon inspirations similar to Joan Mitchell, who once said, "I would more like to paint what [nature] leaves with me.” Marx herself has said, “I paint as a result of my radical amazement at the beauty of the visual world.”
Marx allows herself to be led by emotional sensations rather than an intellectualized plan. She paints at a passionate, furious pace, rarely waiting for prior layers to dry. Her paintings are an emotional reaction concluding in an explosive collision of color and brushwork. Marx often leaves blank spaces on her canvases, often at the edges so that the painting itself becomes a shape. It is a conscious decision, she says, that “lets the painting breathe.” For Marx, process and intent are one and the same. “My paintings are conversations,” she says, “between my eyes, my head, my heart, my gut, and the canvas in front of me.”
Susan Marx currently lives and works in New Jersey. Her current body of work was painted in Paris, France.
Exhibition Dates: October 14, 2016 – November 3, 2016
Reception: Thursday October 20, 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/Susan_Marx.aspx
Featured Artists:
Idiosyncratic Expressions
Yetty Elzas | Luz Letts | Maria Bayardo | Susan Marx | Kerstin Lundin | Nomi Knecht | Rody | Mark Salevitz | Brenda Ness-Cooper | Laura Colantonio | Sandra Mueller-Dick | Henrik Sjöström | Alexander Telin | Arlette Zurbuchen
About the Exhibition
Agora Gallery is pleased to announce Idiosyncratic Expressions, a group exhibition featuring forteen artists who look at the world and see something fantastic, in every sense of the word. Idiosyncratic Expressions offers the entire range of observational to surreal to non-representational, in painting and sculpture. One participant offers an extreme close-up of figures and the things they leave behind – clothing, boats, flowers arranged in vases – at angles no one could achieve naturally. Another depicts pure textures floating through space in a novel three-dimensional use of paint. Still another paints scenes that can never be: a unicorn lying at a woman’s feet, or a watering hole full of animals in the middle of a city street. Though their creators come from all around the globe and all levels of artistic education, the works in this exhibition share boldness of color, subject matter, and purpose. Each artist’s perspective is unique and highly personal to their own experience.
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