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Featuring Work from PEDNÒ in Unbound Perspectives
Agora Gallery Presents a Two Part Art Exhibition
Featuring Work from PEDNÒ in Unbound Perspectives
Montreal-based artist PEDNÒ will display his acrylic on canvas paintings at Agora Gallery's upcoming exhibition Unbound Perspectives. He presents beautiful men and women either in the throes of ecstasy or gazing back at the viewer with sultry stares.
NEW YORK, NY, May 14, 2009 /Art and Artists PR News/ -- Agora Gallery is pleased to present a two-part art exhibition scheduled to run from June 2, 2009 through June 23, 2009. By exploring such undiscovered vantage points and often-overlooked inspirations, this collection of artists was selected because they present the world to viewers with an unusual candor. Whether with grit or finesse, the paintings grouped together in Unbound Perspectives display a timeless artistic past time: to unseat the audience from their comfortable and mundane perceptions of reality.
PEDNÒ's up-close works in portraiture appropriate the influence of Hollywood glamour and apply it to the traditional portrait. He presents beautiful men and women either in the throes of ecstasy or gazing back at the viewer with sultry stares. These are young, urban partygoers straight from fashion magazines. Lips, eyes and hair are, of course, the focus, as are sunglasses and the play of light on skin, painted eyelids or pouting lips. PEDNÒ does not skimp on the details, and every luscious bit is highlighted. Yet in their transformation from the glossy page to the fine-art canvas, his subjects take on an added allure beyond the trappings of clothing and attitude. PEDNÒ's subjects are familiar to us through pop culture, yet he replaces the superficial qualities of photography and adds the texture of his skilled brushwork, which is both delicate and bold. With our contemporary obsession over physical beauty, these portraits of fantasy subjects speak to our collective wish for a never-ending party and eternal youth.
In part two, The Substance of Abstraction, audiences are presented with a rich kaleidoscope of color, form, and texture that in conjunction breathes life into abstract artworks. Whether employing shimmering brushstrokes or bold fields of color, nonrepresentational art, with its lack of familiar forms, allows the work speak to us on an especially elemental level. Through their deeply personal forms of expression, these artists offer a stunning glimpse into contemporary abstract painting.
Exhibition Dates: June 2, 2009 - June 23, 2009
Reception: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11a.m. - 6 p.m.
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/pedn%c3%b2.aspx
Featured Artists:
The Substance of Abstraction Unbound Perspectives
Lorraine Folb Hidekazu Ishikawa
Monika Grygier Juan Lopezdabdoub
Per Hillo PEDNÒ
Simon Matheu Tim Stensland
Jasnica Klara Matić Hanna Vater
Kerrie Warren Terry Wang
About Agora Gallery
Established in 1984, Agora Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of national and international contemporary artists. The Gallery caters to the taste and trends of the sophisticated New York art market and the Gallery's discerning worldwide collector base. The Gallery's wide client-base includes private collectors, art consultants, corporate art consultants, architects and interior designers as well as business, government, diplomatic and social VIPs. Agora Gallery offers the client an extraordinary opportunity to acquire some of the most carefully curated art in the contemporary, global art market.
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530 West 25th Street
New York, NY
USA 10001
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