/24-7PressRelease/ - NEW YORK, NY, June 26, 2008 - With a skilled hand and an eye for the movement and fluidity of light, Marc van der Leeden enters us into a meditative world of seascapes and pastoral scenes in his watercolors. If the viewer can smell the sea, it is due not to the painting's foundation in reality but rather to the associations the abstract nature of his work conjures. Van der Leeden creates landscapes that include not only natural forms, but also architectural structures in an unexpected yet fitting way. Lighthouses and bridges become fluid, natural, and at home in their surrounding environment. With confident brush-strokes of milky blues and browns, one settles into the timeless comfort of beaches and ruins. But van der Leeden's work is wistful, not sentimental. The self-taught artist gains our trust with his abstract shapes that suggest very real, memorable forms like pieces of a story. Images of the serene and familiar seascape are fragmented as only memories are â " flashes in the ocean foam.
Marc Van der Leeden graduated from the University of Massachusetts and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York City, and currently resides in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.
Exhibition Dates: June 26, 2008 through July 17, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 6-8 pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm
Marc van der Leeden's work may be seen on
http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Marc_van_der_Leeden.aspx
Established in 1984, Agora Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of national and international contemporary artists. The Gallery caters to the taste and trends of the sophisticated New York art market and the Gallery's discerning worldwide collector base. The Gallery's wide client-base includes private collectors, art consultants, corporate art consultants, architects and interior designers as well as business, government, diplomatic and social VIPs. Agora Gallery offers the client an extraordinary opportunity to acquire some of the most carefully curated art in the contemporary, global art market.
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