Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature a French-American artist, Dominique Boutaud, in Labyrinth of Color. The exhibition is scheduled to run from May 12, 2011 through June 1, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, May 12, 2011).
About the Artist
Nature becomes an abstract stream of strong and sharp tones in French-American painter Dominique Boutaud’s captivating canvases. Descriptive titles tease the viewer with the suggestion of a figurative interpretation, but Boutaud focuses our attention on texture, movement and color combinations. Using amalgamations of many conventional and unusual methods of application, she sets in place superbly tactile encounters, bringing broad brushstrokes up against meticulous drips and fine scrapings. These tactile juxtapositions often evoke tensions between figure and setting, depth and flatness, but most of all they convey movement and temperature.
Whether dark and solemn or ebullient and bold, Boutaud offers her viewers freedom: to explore, to interpret, to become lost in another world. Her oil paintings create a sense of scale that ranges from the minute to the interplanetary, portraying new spaces that she encourages us to discover. Searing reds and yellows, deep, mysterious blues and surprising, calming speckles of white meet in these compositions, conveying landscapes emotional, natural and immaterial that entreat the eye and propose a journey.
Exhibition Dates: May 12, 2011 – June 1, 2011
Reception: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11a.m. - 6 p.m.
Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Dominique_Boutaud.aspx
About the Exhibition:
Featured Artists:
Out From Down Under & Beyond: Fine Art From Australia and New Zealand: Lyn Beaumont, Nicolette Benjamin Black, Milanda De Mont, Kate Diggles, Steven Dix, Ember Fairbairn-Ramsay, Jane Flowers, Leigh Gordon, Joolie Green, Caroline Josephs PhD, Helene Leane, Isaac Petersen, Rebecca Rath, Alison-Jane Rice, Rebecca Saunders, Mark A J Willems
Labyrinth of Color: Dominique Boutaud, Claire Champy, Cary Griffiths, Chad Redl, Ford Weisberg
Sensorial Realms: Andrea Bottelli, Patricia Brintle, Rosa Ibarra, Careen Joplin Langstieh, Rania Mesiskli
Image Credit- Dominique Boutaud, The Reality, Oil on Canvas
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