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Featuring the Playful Mixed Media Works of Michel Picotte in Agora Gallery’s Beyond Borders
Michel Picotte "Mao's Mirth"
Beyond Borders is an exhibition of innovative and stunning Canadian Art. Works span the range of artistic expression, each artist imparting with their unique style a little piece of the Canadian spirit. Playful, humorous, saturated with color, and presented in unique fashion, this is an exhibition to delight the senses.
Incredibly joyful and lively, Michel Picotte’s mixed media works combine found objects and a brilliant palette, with words and symbols in an expressive pastiche. Patterns, rapid strokes, and dribbles of paint flow across a picture plane that is often segmented into equal parts of two or three. There is a wonderful playfulness and experimental feeling evoked by Picotte’s work, as if the audience and artist are experiencing the full joy of creation for the very first time. The emotive, raucous energies aroused by Picotte’s strong creative independence and romantic disposition have been harnessed into a positive action of art, without digressing into narcissistic storytelling. Instead, audience members are able to muse and wonder at each work; themselves participating in the process of artistic dialogue.
Since the 1970s his work has been exhibited frequently in group and solo shows throughout North America and Europe. Picotte divides his time between his main studio in Montreal, Canada and another in the countryside outside of Coutances, France.
Exhibition Dates: October 2, 2009 – October 23, 2009
Reception: Thursday, October 08, 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.
Featured Artists:
Anne Barkley, Clôde Beaupré, Erin Brekke Conn, Mary Byers-Brule, Paul Kelley, Ami Muranetz, Michel Picotte, Chad Redl, Jen Romnes, Sergey Shaevitch, Alberto Velazquez, VéroniKaH
About Agora Gallery
Agora Gallery is a fine art gallery located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea art galleries 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, 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 http://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.
New York, NY 10001
http://www.agora-gallery.com
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