Helen Rosenkranz: Fluid Shapes at Agora Gallery NYC

Helen Rosenkranz’s hallucinatory abstract paintings combine careful compositions with a dense, unbridled visual language. She paints with a full palette and an unmoored light source. Her scenes have neither traditional depth nor gravity, with sky and ground blending into one another or often not present as distinct entities at all. The artist makes the most out of the fluidity of oil, her chosen medium, drawing out subtle shades of one color and allowing lights and darks to melt into each other.

Helen’s elaborate compositions contain many roiling shapes, which seem to represent people, things, air, light, scents, and sounds. These forms follow gentle, organic contours. Among these shapes, she lightly sprinkles recognizable objects, such as a rose, a butterfly, or a person’s head. But the focus of her work is the sinuous matrix of lines and forms. She gives her paintings conceptual names like Entropy or The Beginning, or more often, still Untitled.

Helen Rosenkranz was born in Moscow and today lives in the United States. She has been studying and creating art at the Snug Harbor Art Lab on Staten Island for over fifteen years.

Helen dedicates this show to her longtime mentor, the late Salvatore Busacca, a gifted teacher and a wonderful man.

Exhibition Dates: December 29, 2016 – January 18, 2017
Reception: Thursday December 29, 2016, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Helen_Rosenkranz.aspx

Featured Artists:

Kaleidoscope of the Mind
Mark Reese | Regina Krugel | Fahim Somani | Irma Lescinskaite | Hallie Hart | Helen Rosenkranz | Alejandra Burguette

About the Exhibition

Kaleidoscope of the Mind: Messages From The Cutting Edge

Agora Gallery begins the new year with Kaleidoscope of the Mind, an illuminating expedition into the latest in contemporary art. The exhibition showcases both abstract and surreal-tinged images, with an emphasis on painting. The most striking thing about all six participants is their willingness to experiment. One artist combines frenzied splashes of paint with precise compositional elements, and executes the entire painting while suspended on a catwalk above it. Another painter depicts physical and emotional pain with slashes in the canvas itself. A mixed-media artist juxtaposes the orderliness of silky, painted writing with the primal chaos of resin, resulting in pieces of unusual visual depth. There is one purely representational artist in the exhibition, whose oils dance with such vibrant and unexpected colors that they seem to come from a brighter reality than ours. Kaleidoscope of the Mind is a beautifully candid, cohesive exhibition of the freshest ideas most skillfully brought to life.

About Agora Gallery

Agora Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located in the heart of Chelsea’s fine art district in New York. Established in 1984, Agora Gallery specializes in connecting art dealers and collectors with national and international artists. The art gallery’s expert consultants are available to assist corporate and private clients in procuring original artwork to meet their organization’s specific needs and budget requirements. With a strong online presence and popular online gallery, ARTmine, coupled with the spacious and elegant physical gallery space, the work of our talented artists, who work in diverse media and styles, can receive the attention it deserves. Over the years Agora Gallery has sponsored and catered to special events aimed at fostering social awareness and promoting the use of art to help those in need.

Image: Helen Rosenkranz,Untitled 11,Oil on Canvas,42''x36''