NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of St. Augustine artist Stacie Hernandez 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.
Over the course of a successful career, Stacie Hernandez has undergone several shifts in artistic style, including one between abstract to figurative. Both her more naturalistic paintings and her lyrical abstractions demonstrate in their own ways that Hernandez excels at employing contrasting forms of light and dark, space and density, and color combinations in a way that viewers intuitively understand as experiential. A thoughtful and deliberate artist, Hernandez builds each painting slowly and carefully, focusing on creating expressive and elegant lines, drawing directly onto her canvas with thin layers of paint. Through a laborious process of addition and subtraction, Hernandez works until she discovers something in each piece that surprises her. Her paintings are highly personal, reflecting Hernandez’s emotional state and landscape at a fixed point in time. She describes her approach to painting as combining physical action with meticulous and precise visual observation.
Hernandez holds a MFA from Pratt Institute and is currently the director and artist in residence of Palencia Fine Arts Academy. She lives in St. Augustine, Florida.
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/Stacie_Hernandez.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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