Woven Stories
March 4 – March 24, 2023
Reception: Thursday, March 9, 2023 6-8 PM
530 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Agora Gallery is pleased to announce Woven Stories, a group exhibition of paintings and sculptures that express powerful collective and personal narratives, through the intersection of shapes, colors, and media.
The curatorial selections highlight a variety of ways the artists approach geometry, palette, and form in compositions that range from conceptual abstraction, color fields, impressionistic landscapes all the way to traditional oil painting figuration. Many approach the theme through the use of patterns, mostly referenced from nature–be it the Finnish tundra, the Indian jungle, or the French Riviera–which inform the chromatic choice with subdued hints of peaches and purples, bright accents of yellow and orange, or splashes of oceanic turquoise and emerald green. The motifs and materials often betray a strong cultural undercurrent in their evocation of Asian textiles, Islamic calligraphy, Mexican pueblos, or Southern marine life.
At times, compositional arrangements betray the artist’s sensitivity, unleashing common tales of suffering and resilience. Zoomorphic and anthropomorphic figures in bronze stand as testimonies of the plight of humankind–telling representations of human psychology and mental afflictions. Shrunk in scale–with missing limbs or halferased faces–they are trapped in cages, stabbed by screws and metal rods, tied with rope, wounded in the gut. Pushing the confines of realistic depiction, the form here becomes a channel for universal expression and collective catharsis.
Woven Stories
Jerry Atkins
Meredith Knox Barineau
Saja Calligraphy
Monica Czukerberg
Angel Espino
Suzanne Farman
Thomas Goodro
Kaitlin Kraemer
Riina Kuikka
Salim Mathkour
Gia Sabatini
Sherri Springer
Vini Venugopal
JERRY ATKINS
Red Man
Cast Bronze
28” x 18” x 22”
JERRY ATKINS
Wheelchair
Cast Bronze
28” x 23” x 33”
JERRY ATKINS
Helpless, 2006
Cast Bronze
12” x 8” x 8”
JERRY ATKINS
Lost Cause, 2005
Cast Bronze & Steel
24” x 24” x 18”
JERRY ATKINS
Red Cat 1, 2019
Cast Bronze
13” x 30” x 10”
JERRY ATKINS
Boatswain, epitaph for a dog, 2020
Cast Bronze
30” x 14” x 11”
JERRY ATKINS
Basic Human, 2019
Cast Bronze
23” x 9” x 5.5”
JERRY ATKINS
Untitled, 2019
Cast Bronze
9” x 18” x 10”
Two Creatures , 2004
Cast Resin
JERRY ATKINS
14” x 16” x 20”
JERRY ATKINS
Old Age, 2019
Cast Bronze
18” x 10” x 7”
JERRY ATKINS
The Spinx, 2020
Cast Bronze
40” x 10” x 8”
JERRY ATKINS
My Buddha, 2018
Cast Bronze
22” x 13” x 12”
JERRY ATKINS
Self Portrait In Cage, 2005
Cast Bronze & Steel
50” x 18” x 14”
MEREDITH KNOX BARINEAU
Murano Glass, 2019
Mixed Media on Paper
30” x 24”
Intertwined, 2015 Mixed Media on Paper 30” x 24”
Puzzling, 2012
Mixed Media on Paper
39” x 32”
MEREDITH KNOX BARINEAU
Skeletal, 2019
Mixed Media on Paper
29” x 23”
MEREDITH
Back at the Car Wash, 2019
Mixed Media on Paper 30” x 24”
MONICA CZUKERBERG
Anochecer, 2017
Acrylic on Canvas
43” x 43”
MONICA CZUKERBERG
Brotes de Vida, diptych, 2016
Acrylic on Canvas
39” x 78”
ANGEL ESPINO
Carrara, 2022
Mixed Media on Canvas
36” x 24”
ANGEL ESPINO
Seventh Day, 2022
Mixed Media on Canvas
36” x 24”
Divino, 2021
Mixed Media on Canvas
36” x 36”
ANGEL ESPINO
Purple Haze, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
36” x 24”
SUZANNE FARMAN
Behold The Moment, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
36” x 60”
SUZANNE FARMAN
The Beauty Within, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
48” x 36”
THOMAS GOODRO
Splendor in the Grass
Acrylic on Canvas
16” x 20”
THOMAS GOODRO
Desert Wildflowers
Acrylic on Canvas
16” x 20”
THOMAS GOODRO
Identity meets the soul in North Carolina, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
16” x 20”
THOMAS GOODRO
Aspen in the Carolina’s - Autumn, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
16” x 20”
THOMAS GOODRO
Aspen in the Carolina’s, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
20” x 16”
KAITLIN KRAEMER
Undercurrent II, 2022
Patina, Varnish and Oil on Cooper
73” x 36”
KAITLIN KRAEMER
Yacht Rock IV, 2022
Patina, Varnish, and Oil on Copper
19” x 61.5”
KAITLIN KRAEMER
Yacht Rock VI, 2022
Patina, Varnish, and Oil on Copper
36” x 34”
KAITLIN KRAEMER
Cloud Illusions I, 2022
Patina, Varnish, and Oil on Copper
42” x 18”
KAITLIN KRAEMER
Aquaphoria II, 2022
Patina, Varnish, and Oil on Copper
36” x 37”
KAITLIN KRAEMER
Undercurrent V, 2022
Patina, Varnish and Oil on Cooper
40” x 35”
Colorful Moment In Fields, 2022
Acrylic & Sand on Canvas 39.5” x 31.5”
RIINA KUIKKA
Mystical Moment in Fields, 2022
Mixed Media on Canvas
RIINA KUIKKA
37.5” x 37.5”
RIINA KUIKKA
Lapland Dreaming 3, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas 39.5” x 31.5”
SALIM MATHKOUR
Kids from the Marshes, 2023
Mixed Media on Canvas
35.5” x 45.5”
Boy From The Marshes, 2023
Mixed Media on Canvas 35.5” x 45.5”
Girl From The Marshes, 2023
Mixed Media on Canvas 35.5” x 45.5”
GIA SABATINI
I Remembered Everything, 2022 Mixed Media on Paper 22” x 30”
GIA SABATINI
I Think Just Once Will Do, 2022
Mixed Media on Paper 22” x 15”
GIA SABATINI
I Used To Hate This Song, 2022
Mixed Media on Paper 22” x 15”
GIA SABATINI
Just In The Background Somewhere, 2022
Mixed Media on Paper 22” x 15”
GIA SABATINI
Troubled In Their Dreams Again, 2022
Mixed Media on Paper
22” x 30”
SHERRI SPRINGER
Colorfully Mystique, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
36” x 36”
SHERRI SPRINGER
The Endless Garden, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
24” x 18”
SHERRI SPRINGER
An Interesting Turn No. 3, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
12” x 36”
SHERRI SPRINGER
An Interesting Turn No. 2, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas
14” x 11”
SHERRI SPRINGER
An Interesting Turn No. 1, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
36” x 24”
