NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Brooklyn artist Brenda Ness-Cooper in Idiosyncratic Expressions. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.
In the process of creating her compelling watercolors, Brooklyn artist Brenda Ness-Cooper transforms interesting subjects and images into striking compositions, so that an ordinary landscape or scenic terrain becomes something quite extraordinary. Each image is reworked several times on watercolor paper before being transferred to Aquabord, a process that enables the artist to capture a unique degree of expressionism in the art, one in which the magical can be found in the real.
In the end, Ness-Cooper’s paintings are meant to be so much more than just a pretty picture, as she seeks with each image to tell a story and provide the viewer a means of escape from the grind of daily life. She achieves this with a strong use of line combined with vibrant colors and an emphasis on composition and form, all of which add fantastical elements to the overall effect. As Ness-Cooper explains, “My representational paintings create magical places for my viewers to enjoy.”
Brenda Ness-Cooper currently lives and works in Staten Island, New York.
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/Brenda_Ness__Cooper.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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