NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Canberra artist Colin Grant in Portals of Perception. The exhibition opens March 10, 2017 and runs through March 30, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, March 16 from 6-8 pm.
Each one of Colin Grant’s oil paintings offer the viewer a grand yet delicate mystery. Painted on canvases as large as four feet high, Grant’s work is bursting with big statements. The colors alternate between vivid brights and sensual jewel tones, and big swaths of space are covered with vigorous, impassioned brush strokes. Within these broad statements, animals, plants, and architecture are rendered with intricate photorealistic details. The tension between the large and small elements is where the images truly come alive.
Grant describes his most recent work as an inquiry into the intersection of “two worlds, the visible and the invisible.” This is evident in the way he layers recognizable subjects – a deer, a bird, a marble column, a leaf – with fields of pure color and texture. Both the representational images and the atmospheric passages overlap and act as half-seen hints; there is clearly much beneath the visible surface.
Grant was born in Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia and today lives in Canberra, Australia’s capital city. He has participated in both group and solo exhibitions around Australia.
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/Colin_Grant.aspx
Featured Artists:
Portals of Perception
Colin Grant | Sydnei SmithJordan | Ron Turner | Nancy Holleran | Shabnam Yousefian | Tanja Skytte
About the Exhibition
Portals of Perception: Deep Thoughts in Painting
Five painters of remarkable sensitivity come together for Portals of Perception, a new group exhibition presented this March by Agora Gallery. This small, concentrated group represents the many ways of paying attention to detail - in portraiture, in landscape, even in non-representational works. Three of the included artists are interested in setting the scene for us. One paints the terrain from a traditional distant viewpoint, but his images are gauzy and stylized: one city skyline appears as pure black on gray, looming through a fog, while another has buildings that resemble a family of brightly colored giants. The other two landscape painters give us street-level scenes, one depicting a vibrant watercolor world of sea sides and fishermen, the other offering rich, hyper realistic urban streets in oil. In both, the essence is of the moment. The exhibit’s abstract artist creates beautiful, understated textures with her acrylic, often in monotone to make the patterns sing all the more. The mixed-media portraits are premier examples of character studies: unapologetically unique women depicted in both traditional and non-traditional contexts.
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