The Harmonious Colors of Cindy Parsley

Using acrylic on paper or canvas, Cindy Parsley creates paintings that balance abstraction and descriptive, vibrant forms. Short brush strokes mix and layer, building up scenes that emphasize texture and atmosphere. Saturated primary colors convey a range of emotions and add excitement to each scene, providing a base for more unexpected neon hues and darker shades. The bright colors combine with bursting and swirling brushstrokes, resulting in figures and landscapes that pulse with abstract color and pattern. Royal blue and bright crimson collaborate to create inherent drama, covering the negative space with impactful pigments and providing a point of contrast for opposing colors and forms. Parsley uses a variety of techniques to create texturally diverse works; curvilinear shapes building a tree, or smooth and feathered strokes becoming the contours of a human form. Three-dimensional additions in the gesso add another element to each piece, allowing real world lighting and environment to enhance and counterbalance the subjects on the canvas, paper, or board.

Working from the United States and Australia, Parsley’s work is a harmonious reinterpretation of the world around her.

Exhibition Dates: April 25, 2017  – May 16, 2017

Reception: Thursday, April 27, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm

Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York

Event URL:  http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Cindy_Parsley.aspx

Featured Artists:

Portal to Enigma

Mague Brewer  |  A. Cornelia Weigle  |  Sven Weigle  |  Catherine Harasymiw  |  Patricia Queiruga  |  Cristina Prieto Crespi  |  Cindy Parsley  |  Lois Gold

About the Exhibition

Portal to Enigma

Agora Gallery is pleased to present Portal to Enigma, a new group exhibition exploring the possibilities of extreme abstraction and non-representational art. As its title suggests, this show is about finding meaning within compositions that can be obscure or even withholding. The work on display throws the spotlight on the non-literal components of visual depiction: texture, color, form, and arrangement in space. Portal to Enigma is a unique survey of the latest in abstraction.

Among the eight featured artists are some who play with landscape, some who play with figural studies, and some who work purely outside of representational boundaries. One artist fractures the human body into slices almost as if to show the movement of time across the canvas. Another depicts nature as a romantic, mysterious collection of impossibly rich colors. The exhibition includes experiments in pattern, texture, and highly intricate mark-making. These are some of the most energized, relentlessly curious abstract artists working in the field today.