(openPR) - Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Italian artist, Santina “Semadar” Panetta, in Portals of Perception. The exhibition is scheduled to run from November 23, 2010 through December 14, 2010 (opening reception: Thursday, December 02, 2010).

Filled with the spirit of the natural world, Santina “Semadar” Panetta’s paintings blur the boundaries between landscape and abstraction. While her works remain largely nonrepresentational, one cannot help but feel the essence of the seasons which inspire them. Semadar’s pointillistic style recalls the works of Seurat and other Impressionists of the late 19th century. Working in oils she fills her canvases with small dots of color. The effect is brilliantly vibrant, and her paintings seem illuminated and rippling with movement and texture. “My Work demonstrates that Art is a language; an alphabet with an eloquent vocabulary, a painting is written and read as a letter, every movement has its rhetoric and philosophical research,” Semadar writes.

Before immigrating to Montreal Semadar was exposed to the classical arts in both Greece and her native Italy at an early age. Following the events of September 11, 2001 her passion for art became reignited in a blaze of creativity and she devoted herself to the development of her now internationally distinguished career.

Exhibition Dates: November 23, 2010 – December 14, 2010
Reception: Thursday, December 02, 2010, 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: www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/santina_semadar_panett...

Portals of Perception displays the work of artists whose work is a testament to the transformative power of the personal and artistic viewpoint, as they use their considerable skill to create new and lyrical creations. Full of energy, this exhibition will leave you seeing the world in a different way.

Featured Artists:
Patricia Alvarado, Alex Braverman, Hellen Choo, Clara Gràcia, Santina ‘Semadar’ Panetta, Paul Pierson, Marina Reiter

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. At the end of 2009, Agora Gallery opened its doors to a new exhibition space. This beautifully designed and spacious new gallery will showcase artists and their work in a significant solo exhibition environment. The gallery also publishes ARTisSpectrum Magazine, a bi-annual magazine that is distributed to museums, galleries, art institutions and art schools around the world. It provides artists, collectors, museums, galleries, art organizations and enthusiasts with access to the work of internationally talented emerging and mid-level artists as well as feature articles, reviews and interviews. Agora Gallery is also 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. Most recently, the gallery launched agoraartgalleryblog.com, a blog designed to provide helpful information and advice for artists while providing a forum for artists to help one another by sharing their experiences and thoughts.

Agora Gallery
530 West 25th St
Chelsea, NY 10001
212-226-4151