March 13, 2018 and runs through April 3, 2018
Opening reception on Thursday, March 15th from 6-8 pm.
Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, New York, NY
This spring Agora Gallery proudly presents Lyrical Abstraction, a group show featuring eight artists whose works offer various approaches and responses to the spatial problems posed by abstraction.
What has traditionally set abstraction apart from figurative modes of artmaking is that it emphasizes a non-representational space where an agon of colors, lines, and textures could emerge. In Lyrical Abstraction, Agora has gathered a group of artists artists who continue to engage this tradition, emphasizing the materiality of form and pigment without depicting illusory objects in an equally illusory space.
Clea von Döhren and Mao Lizi have an almost mystical intuition of spatial presentation. While von Döhren paints utopian landscapes that veer off into dream, Lizi highlights the spatial structure of the framed canvas, making its object-like solidity appear porous by way of large, gestural strokes and pools of paint. Iftah Geva and Attila Mata are both sculptors who physically recreate the spatial dimensions normally relegated to paintings. Howard Harris and Hiroko Saigusa occupy an intermediate realm between realism and and abstraction, alluding to the principles of design while blurring any and all boundaries between decoration and illumination. Finally, Dana Ingesson and Alexandra Verbeek are painters of pure abstraction whose works in watercolors and oils, respectively, create dimensional surfaces and sudden horizons out of the flatness intrinsic to paper or canvas.
Lyrical Abstraction opens March 13th and runs through April 3rd, 2018, with an opening reception on Thursday 15th, 2018 6-8 PM. Entrance is free.