Events

The original work of four French artists Albert Lichten, Claude MacBurnie, Laurent Moreau and VAST will be on display at Agora Gallery, NYC. The exhibitions open on April 24th and run until May 14th, 2015. The opening reception takes place on the evening of Thursday, April 30th from 6-8 PM. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented and interesting artists is encouraged to attend.

Event URL:
Albert Lichten - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Albert_Lichten.aspx
Claude MacBurnie - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Claude_MacBurnie.aspx
Laurent Moreau - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Laurent_Moreau.aspx
VAST - http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/VAST.aspx

About Albert Lichten

The painting heritage of Albert Lichten is complex; his influences are Fauvism, Cubism, and abstraction. He feels close to Matisse, but his main approach is a personal resumption of the Cubist discovery of multidimensionality. Thus the little characters which are represented in his different canvases are remote, but at the same time the canvas structure suggests the feeling they have of the surrounding landscape. It is a subjective-objective synthesis. It results in an emotional climate. The remoteness of his subjects is so pronounced, in fact, that the surrounding landscape becomes a kind of second character: a looming Mother Earth that cradles her children closely. Lichten’s palette leans on the contrast between muted and vivid colors. He occasionally mixed his colors with sand, a technique that provides added textural dimension.

About Claude MacBurnie

Claude MacBurnie has taken photographs of a variety of subjects—from operatic productions, to scenes of Japanese life, to booths in professional trade shows. But a main focus of his recent work has been the original flying machines: hot air balloons. He has created a series of images giving us a poetic vision of balloons from the Lorraine Mondial Air Ballons, the world’s largest event devoted to ballooning, with participants from around the world. MacBurnie says that his goal in photographing the preparation of the balloons and the balloons in flight is to highlight what he calls “the two essential elements” which give ballooning its power and life: air and fire.

About Laurent Moreau

French photographer Laurent Moreau is a world traveler who brings his unique perspective to a wide variety of landscapes and subjects. His aim is to share personal encounters with viewers of his work, and he produces both animal and human portraits. His animals studies are regal, conveying intensely human characteristics. Laurent Moreau works toward cultural preservation by immersing himself in the communities of ethnic minorities. The portraits he creates during his travels “magnify the individuals,” as he puts it, with the aim to preserve the ancestral identities of communities and their members.

About VAST

French artist VAST centralizes love as the subject of his vibrant acrylic and marker-based paintings, stating that “love is something that affects everyone at all ages.” He disperses small, freestanding hearts and outstretched, embracing arms throughout an imaginary space that is constructed entirely by the overwhelming, explosive, and dynamic agglomeration of an abstract urban skeleton: ladders, cement blocks, and conduits weave playfully around one another, their bodies often culminating in a solid geometric form, such as a diamond or a cube.