Posts by: Karin Maraney
Three sparkling new exhibitions are coming to Agora Gallery this July. Celebrate the summer weather with art that will make you feel as though a fresh breeze is blowing through both the room and your mind, lightening and invigorating everything it touches. The exhibitions open on July 7, 2012 and will run until July 27, 2012. The opening reception will take place on the evening of Thursday July 12, 2012 and as always entrance is free and art enthusiasts are enthusiastically encouraged to come.
In The French Perspective: Contemporary Art from France you can enjoy the wonderful works of talented French artists who pour their energies into communicating ideas through art. Melding sophisticated concepts and forms with [...]
Tapestry has been a form of fine art for centuries, combining beauty with practicality and immortalizing stories, personalities and historical events.
Patricia Armour, whose work was part of the exhibition Elemental Realms at Agora Gallery this year, is a modern-day weaver, creating evocative and appealing tapestries. In this guest post she explains how so many different colors come out of the weave, what role drawing and painting play in the process, and the reason that she loves tapestry more than any other form of fine art.
Guest Post by Patricia Armour
First and foremost I am a weaver. I have always been inspired by the great European tapestries – in particular the Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters in New York, the Lady and [...]
Do you wish that your work had a little something extra? Do you feel that you’re not quite giving your best to your art? If so, you’re not alone. Even when artists have found a style that they’re happy with, are making time to create art and are generally finding that the art in their life is pretty good, they often talk about feeling that something is ‘missing’ in some way, and wish that they could somehow add that extra element.
In some ways, this is different for everyone – each artist has things that they personally find challenging, or that perhaps prevent them from really concentrating on what they’re doing, or is in some other way a source of frustration. These areas are as diverse as are artists, [...]
This June, three fabulous new exhibitions are coming to Agora Gallery. Feel the power of form in one, be transported by the wonder of the second, and revel in the richness of color in the third. The exhibitions open on June 12, 2012 and will run until July 3, 2012. The opening reception will take place on the evening of Thursday June 14, 2012. As always, everyone who loves art is warmly welcomed to attend.
Combining the energy and motion of spontaneity with the care and dedication of genuine skill, the artists in Pulse of Abstraction work to bring a sense of vibrant life to their audience through the medium of their work. Exploring both their own inspiration and [...]
