New York, NY (1888PressRelease)
April 14, 2009 - The Agora Gallery (530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY, 10001) is proud to present Lily David in Fragments. Scheduled to run from April 14th through May 5th, the collection will feature a captivating selection of Lily David’s mixed media works.
Like an aesthetic archaeologist, Lily David digs beneath the surface of her engaging and visually complex works to expose their emotional and thematic foundations. She explores the tactile qualities of paper to reveal the dynamic possibilities within its rips and tears, the hidden tones and moods folded within its multiple levels. Thematically, there is the suggestion of psychological pain in these works, but also of hope, as the revealed layers unfold to show a multitude of colors, textures and meanings.
Her past work as a theatrical set designer inspired Lily to explore the tactile qualities of cloth and paper in order to create three-dimensional surfaces. Today Lily fully embraces her responsibilities as a visual artist; she courageously faces the ambiguity of life, and its torn, ragged qualities, but also reveals through her work the necessity of hope, and of finding textures and layers within life’s difficulties. She speaks her own unique visual language, inspired by her passion for the intimate communication that is art.
Lily David was born in Mexico and currently resides in Israel. An art teacher, mother and wife, the artist has exhibited throughout Israel and in Paris.
Peter Wiley of Gallery and Studio magazine stated in his review of her work: "For while her pieces evoke the sense of a stark and unforgiving desert landscape, it is finally through their pure plastic values –– their incongruous yet highly effective confluence of sculptural and painterly qualities, the chromatic frisson of their pale yet luminous color harmonies, and the bold spaciousness of their forms –– that they ultimately distinguish themselves.
Few artists in recent memory have combined such disparate qualities as a rugged tactility and a lyrical delicacy as impressively as Lily David does in this series of works. At once intimate and monumental, her “Fragments,” although apparently hard-won by experience, possess a deceptively effortless-seeming beauty that remains vivid in memory long after one has viewed them." Peter Wiley
About the Exhibition
Altered States of Reality provides a glimpse of the world as captured through the lens of a camera, technology, and through the artists own inner vision. The gifted artist’s participating in Altered States of Reality offer us a perception of the world, as seen, through a complex, enigmatic fusion of emotions and technical mastery. The old boundaries have come tumbling down and the new reality has been altered and is forever changing. This exciting exhibition allows us to challenge our ideas, parables and perceptions that constitute our own reality.
Featured Artists: David Agee, Cariappa Annaiah, Apolo Anton Arauz, Marisa Atha, Montserrat Benito Segura, Flemming Hoff, Marilyn Holland, Malka Inbal, Hidekazu Ishikawa, Matty Karp, Alain Lacki, Massimiliano Lattanzi, LEFT, Clecio Lira, Camila Manero, Mary Mansey, Angelina McCormick, Mari Minegishi, Allen Palmer, Beth Parin, Clint Saunders, Sylvia Schwenk, James Spitznagel, Radostina Valchanova, Shelley Vouga, Leslie Weil, Stefanie Young, Byra Zimmerman
About the Gallery:
Agora Gallery is a fine art gallery located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea art district that was established in 1984 and is famous for showcasing a spectacular array of talented artists from around the world and around the corner, while providing quality and original art to collectors. The gallery also publishes ARTisSpectrum Magazine, a bi-annual magazine that is distributed to museums, galleries, cultural and art institutions and societies and art schools around the world.
It provides artists, collectors, museums, galleries, art organizations and enthusiasts with access to the work of hundreds of internationally talented emerging and mid-level artists as well as feature articles, reviews and interviews and is the sponsor of Art-Mine.com, one of the most comprehensive resources available worldwide to view and purchase fine art from emerging, mid-level and well-established artists.
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