NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Canadian artist HERMINE 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.
The work of Canadian photographer, painter, and sculptress HERMINE seeks to uncover what the artist herself calls a “strange beauty” in everyday subjects and recognizable objects. Each work of art is extraordinarily dynamic, transforming the ordinary into something that’s so much more: visual images that are both transcendent yet very much of this earth. HERMINE is a master of color and composition, and her work is compelling, profound, and utterly beautiful.
One of the elements that makes the art so appealing is the artist’s understanding and implementation of spatial relationships, which serve both to reduce the subject to its simplest manifestation and also expand it to achieve greater understanding of its essence. As HERMINE so eloquently explains, “I seek to define the elusive beauty that surrounds me. I see to witness and immortalize the intangible human condition. Materialization is transcribed by fracturing, amputating, and geometrically rendering shapes. I cut and uproot the subject that takes life under my fingers.”
HERMINE currently lives and works in Baie-Saint-Paul in Quebec, Canada.
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/HERMINE.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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