Tiko Sanikidze: Pluming the Depths of Hyperrealism

The absolutely stunning hyper-realist pencil on paper drawings of Georgian artist Tiko Sanikidze are rich with detail and replete with emotive expression. With a graduate degree in architecture, Sanikidze has mastered the subtleties of the hyper-realistic approach, combining a meticulous level of detail and intensification of physical form with subtle pictorial elements to create the illusion of a reality that’s entirely new.

While her images are almost photograph-like in their rendering, there is a deep expressionist undercurrent that imbues profound meaning in the drawings and transforms them into something more. Indeed, that is a main goal of Sanikidze’s art, to invite her viewers to see beyond the everyday physical landscape into the emotional depths that come to define the most cursory of experiences. As Sanikidze explains, “I aspire to give the viewer a new emotional perspective in which we can appreciate an affinity for everyday situations as we deal exclusively with how people appear, when in reality people are more than what we see.”

Tiko Sanikidze currently lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia, both as an architect and an artist.

Exhibition Dates: November 8, 2016 – November 30, 2016

Reception: Thursday November 10, 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/Tiko_Sanikidze.aspx

Featured Artists:

Divergent Realities

Menno Vos  |  David J. Marchi  |  Chantal Roy  |  Pauli Zmolek  |  Leni Berliner  |  Tiko Sanikidze

About the Exhibition

Divergent Realities:  The world as it's never been seen

Agora Gallery is pleased to present Divergent Realities, a concentrated and vivacious group exhibition featuring six artists who could not be more different from one another. Three abstract artists are featured: one who builds up thick physical surfaces with his paint, one who uses texture to create trompe-l'oeil images, and one who uses patterns to create three-dimensional effects. All three poke at the boundaries between the picture plane and the viewer's own space. There is a watercolor painter who creates delicate, monochromatic portrayals of life's small details, and a landscape artist who depicts nature as dynamic, color-blocked patterns. A rigorously realistic pencil artist whose works mirror our world closely but represent completely personal experiences fills out the small group. All six artists have created an entire visual universe, complete with rules, possibilities, and impossibilities. These wildly diverse aesthetics are at their best when brought together; next to one another, each artist's unique point of view is thrown into sharp relief.