NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Italian artist Raffaella Rizzo in Pulse of Abstraction. The exhibitions open on March 28, 2014 and run through April 17, 2014. The opening reception will take place on the evening of Thursday, April 3, 2014.

About the Artist

Rafa (Raffaella Rizzo) mixes powdered pigments with acrylic resin to create layered paintings of vibrant, dimensional color.  Trained as a classical musician and composer, Rafa reacts to the viscosity of paint to build a reverberating surface of colliding marks through swaths and spills, which gently bleed together where they merge. These gestures orchestrate a poetic visual experience – folding into one another to become a sensorial record of the medium’s fluidity.

Rafa has always sought to explore the social utility of art through the potency of an abstract mark. She equates visual harmony with her experience as a feminist and a woman, summoning the essence of social progress through both the ephemerality and physicality of an objective form.  In this work, there is an insistence that the painting stay faithful to its medium. Lacking figurative motifs, the work begs a kind of engagement based on heightened perception and sensation, evoking an incontrovertible relationship between color and composition that paradoxically frees one from the other.

Exhibition Dates: March 28, 2014 – April 17, 2014
Reception: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 11-6
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, Chelsea, New York
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Featured Artists:
                 
New York City 2014: Synchronicity
                 
Nichole Bodin  |  Marianne Fernandez  |  Catherine Manchester  |  Barbara Palka Winek  |  Etsuko Shida  |  Mikhail Zhirmunsky
                 
Sensorial Perspectives
                 
Steven Cary  |  Scott Forsyth  |  Marie Gailland  |  Katherine Gallagher  |  Marcia Haufrecht  |  Gerd J. Mangels  |  Mikey McGhee  |  Eduardo Rodriguez  |  Gabriele Tamburini  |  Alejandro Tejeda Mora  |  Luca Viapiana
                 
Pulse of Abstraction
                 
Karen Keil Brown  |  Nunzia Busi  |  Pato García  |  Marcel Neuenschwander  |  Jose Descronos  |  Rafa (Raffaella Rizzo)  |  Lillie Simpson  |  Wei Xiong
                 
East Meets West: An Exhibition of Fine Art from Asia
                 
Soo Hong  |  Aung Kyaw Htet  |  Yoshiko Kanai  |  Takashi Kogawa  |  Koya  |  Yukihiro Murai  |  Takuya Sasaki  |  Ron Yue
                 
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.