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NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Israeli artist, Tsipi Shaish, in Elements of Abstraction. The exhibition is scheduled to run from June 30, 2011 through July 21, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, July 07, 2011).

About the Artist
Tsipi Shaish’s large-scale paintings are made through an intuitive process incorporating acrylic, pastel, charcoal, as well as the occasional adoption of emulsion or collage techniques. Wielding a bold artillery of color, Shaish’s primary mainstays and fuzzy pastels converse with gleeful pandemonium. Partially obscured figures emerge like colorful masks or engaging caricatures of Israeli cultural life. Abstracted figures, cloaks, coats and other transformed subjects mingle with rich streaks of color and shards of sporadic patterning. Some works function like landscapes, dotted here and there with hazy figures, oblong doorways and startlingly totemic symbolism. Based in a kaleidoscopic terrain where objective borders slip and tilt together, these works collapse boundaries and power the imagination through strange and unfamiliar waters.

Tsipi Shaish was born in 1955 in Tel Aviv, Israel and currently lives and works in the city of Yavne. She was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease five years ago, and at the same time discovered her artistic abilities, through which she expresses her optimism and determination and which have come to play a significant role in her identity and life.

Exhibition Dates: June 30, 2011 – July 21, 2011
Reception: Thursday, July 07, 2011, 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/artistpage/Tsipi_Shaish.aspx

About the Exhibition:
Elements of Abstraction presents the work of artists who use their considerable skill to provide their viewers with a new, refreshing and highly relatable perspective on the world. In Portals of Perception, we are introduced to art which resonates with our shared understanding and reflects the essence of what it means to be human.

Featured Artists:
Elements of Abstraction: Albena, Michel David, Carmen Egea, Yuki Kourai, Tsipi Shaish, Cedric Van Eenoo, Michael Wayne

Portals of Perception: Drenda Duff, Carisa Galloway, Denyse Gibbs, Debi Mackinnon, Sandra Mueller-Dick, Santanu Santan Kumar, Bruce Leslie Thomas

About Agora Gallery
Agora Gallery is a fine art gallery, established in 1984 and located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea art galleries district. It 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. Gallery II, an elegant adjacent gallery space, gives artists the ideal area for a solo or group exhibition of their own, organized and publicized by Agora Gallery. 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 international talented artists as well as feature articles, reviews and interviews. Agora Gallery is also the sponsor of ARTmine, one of the most comprehensive resources available worldwide to view and purchase fine art. The gallery also runs Agora Art Blog, 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, New York City, NY 10001
Lee Eagle
lee@agora-gallery.com