NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Spanish artist Susana Rapallo in The Saturated Palette. The exhibition opens March 10, 2017 and runs through March 30, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, March 16 from 6-8 pm.
The multimedia paintings of Susana Rapallo reflect the multiplicities of the modern world. Rapallo is able to pick out cultural harbingers from all corners of contemporary life for depiction. As an expat living in Spain, she has painted popular fashions, characteristic meals, art historical references, signs and symbols referring to current events and real places - anything that calls up a specific time and atmosphere. Her latest series, Rotten Apples, portrays the fruit at different stages of ripeness and decay and manages to give an oblique nod to everything from New York City to Cézanne. The series also explores themes of female relationships, complexities of emotion and feelings within the family dynamic.
Rapallo was born in São Paulo, Brazil and today lives in Madrid, Spain, where she works for the Embassy of Brazil. Her experiences living there, as well as in Belgium, Uruguay, Paraguay, New York, and China, have informed her wide array of cultural references. Rapallo is equally wide-ranging in her style, which has swerved between abstract and representative again and again over the course of her career. But she has a few hallmarks: robust lines, minimal background, a strong central composition, and a beautiful, saturated palette.
Exhibition Dates: March 10, 2017 – March 30, 2017
Reception: Thursday, March 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/Susana_Rapallo.aspx
Featured Artists:
The Saturated Palette
Olivia Kapoor | Ping Lian Yeak | Vanitira | Jessica Watson-Thorp | Susana Rapallo | Han-Yuan Yu | Maria Fernandez Gold | Irina Goryunova | Chen Jin
About the Exhibition
The Saturated Palette
Agora Gallery is pleased to present The Saturated Palette, a riotous new group exhibition that explores an array of intense visual expressions. All ten artists featured here employ an extreme of some sort, be it tone, shape, texture – or, more frequently, a combination of several. Color is of course the main player, and the exhibition’s large range offers examples of how it is deployed to depict people, places, and ideas. We see it in bright, playful bursts, but also in more unexpected ways. In some works, the standout color is used only sparingly in the frame; in others, it serves to highlight an element of the subject matter, or even to underline the artist’s larger idea about pattern or line. With oil, pastels, and encaustic, several artists show us how a canvas can include only subtle or darker colors that nevertheless completely infuse the image. In this exhibition, techniques are taken to their limit and the curious are rewarded.
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