NEW YORK, NY, October 01, 2008
/24-7PressRelease/ -- Agora Gallery is proud to present John Mackintosh in Beyond Borders: Exhibition of Fine Art from Canada.
About John Mackintosh:
Canadian painter John Mackintosh uses a personal iconography and heavily stylized aesthetic that remain widely accessible. His works with acrylic have a sweeping grandeur that evokes an aura of myth and universal resonance. Complex figures and settings burst forth with dramatic and clean three-dimensional hues, eliciting an uncanny impression of volume. Mackintosh uses strong colors, sharp dramatic lines and carefully rendered shading to create a sense of connection and narrative progression that leads viewers through the canvas.
Indeed, much of Mackintosh's self-taught art practice is informed by his interest in systems of belief, faith and nature. Accordingly, his paintings pose natural shapes, objects and beings in highly-symbolic settings, creating a kind of spiritual model from relatively common figures. In elaborately abstracted backdrops and characters melded with their natural surroundings, viewers get a sense of the metaphysical connections linking supposedly separate entities. Disparate objects brought under John Mackintosh's softly grandiose aesthetic achieve a kind of synergy, testifying to the presence of some invisible power connecting all living things.
Exhibition Dates: October 1, 2008 through October 21, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 6-8 pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm
John Mackintosh's work may be seen on
http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/John_Mackintosh.aspx
About Agora Gallery
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.
# # #
- art, artists, arts, chelsea, city, entertainment, evening, event, events, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitions, free, gallery, general, manhattan, new, paintings, show, special, things, visual, york
Read more Press Releases from Irene Kahytman:Other Press Release Headlines:
