Posted on: 20 July, 2017
Author: Maria Stella
NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Tammy Phillips in Enigmatic Visions. The exhibition opens July 28, 2017 and runs through August 17, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, August 3 from 6-8 pm. Tammy Phillips grew up in northwest Montana near Glacier National Park, not far from her ancestor Charlie Russell’s cabin at Lake McDonald. Russell, a painter famed for chronicling the American West, had a profound impact on Phillips, whose watercolors are filled with the people she has encountered while traveling across Asia, Europe, and North America. Drawing from her large archive of photographs, Phillips creates global, urban scenes featuring identifiable but abstract figures drifting through city streets like shadows, shades, or blurred passersby. Phillips approaches each piece with a story in mind, drawing a detailed scene and fleshing it out with paint, following the path of the water across the page and making small adjustments for impact. Though the figures are an important element of her work, the perspective is often removed, creating an atmosphere of languid serenity. Phillips seeks out such moments, searching for the stories overlooked in the hectic scramble of everyday life. “I no longer look at the world without seeing common things in a special way,” she says. Tammy Phillips lives and works in Fairbanks, Alaska. Exhibition Dates: July 28 – August 17, 2017 Reception: Thursday, August 3, 2017, 6:00pm - 8:00pm Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11:00am – 6:00pm Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Tammy_Phillips.aspx Featured Artists: Annette Balsgaard | Antonio Biagiotti | Olena Bogatska | D. L. Brabander | James Chisholm | Anna Galea | Yuki Goodman | Larry Greenberg | Naini Kumar | Linco7n. | Jonathan Mann | Tammy Phillips | Elizabeth Sabine | Mark W. Malone About the Exhibition Enigmatic Visions Enigmatic Visions is a new group exhibition from Agora Gallery highlighting a range of exceptionally thoughtful work from eleven contemporary artists. In watercolor, photography, oil, ink, and acrylic, the participants find exciting new ways to create focus. One painter reduces the seascape to a single color, using a palette that is at once strict and infinitely flexible in its endless shades of blue. Another draws all the textural possibilities out of just one kind of brushstroke. A third uses abstraction to surround and isolate his subjects. Enigmatic Visions uses the traditional themes of domesticity, nature, and formal beauty to dive deeper into the details of everyday life. Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com 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.