NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Dutch artist Yetty Elzas in Idiosyncratic Expressions. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.
The figurative sculptures of Dutch artist Yetty Elzas combine deep emotive meaning with a stunning aesthetic. With a focus on soft curves and organic forms, Elzas creates three-dimensional pieces that are highly intuitive, seeking to reflect not only the sadness of the human experience but also the happier aspects that inform our lives.
Originally inspired by the shapes formed by nature in her garden and found in the driftwood she collects on the beaches, and by the female form, Elzas creates three-dimensional silhouettes both elegant and replete with meaning. She considers her sculptures to be anecdotal, each telling a story and revealing a depth of symbolism beyond the surface figurative rendering. As Elzas explains, my “sculptures are like enactments of what I see around me, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, but always understandable even when experimenting with the limits of three-dimensional creation.”
Yetty Elzas currently lives and works in the Netherlands. Some time ago, she completed a commission for a monument commemorating all the Jewish people from Wageningen and the surrounding areas who perished in the Second World War.
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/Yetty_Elzas.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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