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Agora Gallery
Ai-WenChantalLenorAndersonBinghamGreversDitaJacobovitzWuKratzBelleRothMarkSchiffSherriSpringer
Agora Gallery
Agora Gallery was established by the late Miki Stiles, MFA, to provide opportunities to artists entering the global art market. Ms. Stiles was a visionary who founded the gallery on the principle that all artists benefit from having their artwork promoted by a professional gallery. Located in the heart of the famous Chelsea art district, Agora Gallery occupies the ground floor of 530 West 25th Street. The gallery is frequented by art lovers looking to find and buy original artwork.
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From the Director
Dear Art Collectors,
My name is Sabrina Gilbertson and I am the Director of Agora Gallery. We offer a diverse range of original contemporary art from around the world in a variety of styles and price points, providing collectors, decorators, and designers the opportunity to purchase or lease a curated collection of art pieces. We also welcome practicing artists worldwide to inquire about our representation and
Jerry Anderson
Once a viewer engages dialog with Anderson’s work, they discover a sense of intimacy, spirituality, and the connection between masculine and feminine energies. The male and female forms are transferred into landscapes, abstracting contours into hills and valleys. Based in California, Anderson is an American artist who has exhibited all around the United States. His work has been recognized in China, Europe, and the Middle East.
Jerry Anderson’s paintings are expressions of vivacity and energy, flowing with bold colors and subtle yet striking emotion. A visceral exploration of human anatomy, using undulating blocks of shape and color to build human forms throughout the breadth of his acrylic paintings. Each piece makes use of a controlled color palette with saturated hues to explore focused sections of bodies. Wavering lines combine with color to evoke flames in vibrant reds and oranges, or suggest water in cool blues and purples. In contrast to simple shapes, the subjects themselves remain sensual in form; somehow familiar and tactile.
Cappadocia
3 Hidden Jewel, 2015 Acrylic on Canvas 24” x 24”
Cappadocia 4 (Star Seeds - Summer), 2015 Acrylic on Canvas 24” x 24”
Cappadocia 5 (Star Seeds - Spring), 2015 Acrylic on Canvas 24” x 24”
Cappadocia 6 Rooster Rocks, 2015 Acrylic on Canvas 24” x 24”
Cappadocia 8 Puppy Playground, 2016 Acrylic on Canvas 24” x 24”
Lenor Bingham
The daughter of an inventor and an artist, American painter Lenor Bingham grew up on Long Island, amidst her father’s extravagant contraptions and her mother’s sculptures. Frequent trips to museums spurred a passion for modern art and Abstract Expressionism; while childhood travels to Latin America enlivened her palette.
Bingham formally studied art under Toby Klayman at the Fort Mason Art Center in San Francisco. She exhibited her art in solo and group shows in Portland, OR, and New York. A wine enthusiast, avid hiker, and licensed esthetician, she now runs a German restaurant with her husband. She works and lives in Portland, OR.
Bingham paints delicate portraits of family life, dream-like vignettes evoking childhood memories, folk tales, or tender declarations of love for her children. The desire for intimacy and preservation of the familiar nucleus are recurring themes in her work, although not overtly addressed. Bingham’s Chagallian aesthetic is achieved through layers of acrylic, watercolor, and ink, partially washed-out with bleach. This act of covering and uncovering casts tiny hints to the underlying stories resulting in poetic works of unparalleled textural complexity.
Birds Eye View, 2021 Acrylic & Ink on Paper 24” x 18”
End of Summer Bummer, 2021 Acrylic & Ink on Paper 24” x 18”
If I Played a Guitar, 2021 Acrylic & Ink on Paper 24” x 18”
Postponed Vacations, 2021 Acrylic & Ink on Paper 30” x 22.5”
You Can Still Fly with Broken Wings, 2021 Acrylic & Ink on Paper 24” x 18”
Chantal Grevers
Dutch artist Chantal Grevers creates artworks that meld Romanticism with the uncanny. Grevers draws inspiration from a yearly hike through the Dolomites with her family, filling her memory with enough natural beauty to fuel her artwork until the next year. Yet, Grevers’ interpretation of nature is not unequivocally beautiful; she is attracted to the darker side, and its often unpredictable and threatening quality. She explores these two sides of our world and of her own identity through her work. Grevers feels her status as a Gemini strongly, influenced by both her spontaneous, creative side and her organized, perfectionist side. Her work explores these dual facets of her personality, contrasting soft and loose forms with fluctuating brushstrokes and uneasy color.
In each of Grevers’ paintings, she places a geometric form, most recurrently a house. This house provides visual and emotional shelter from natural elements, and reflects the human desire to hide from the world. As Grevers’ paintings lean into contrast, a tension exists here between the angular traits of these geometric forms and the fluidity of nature. Grevers deftly manipulates both creepy and dreamy elements, ultimately allowing the viewer to take refuge in her work. Grevers studied her technique at the Academy of Art Haarlem Leiden in the Netherlands, where she pinpointed the exact themes she now expresses through her paintings. With each new artwork, Grevers digs even deeper into the contrasts present in herself and nature, developing new ways to translate them onto the canvas.
My Cabin In The Woods, 2018 Acrylic on Cardboard 23.5” x 19.5”
Never Lost, 2018 Acrylic on Cardboard 47” x 39”
Once Upon A Time, 2018 Acrylic on Cardboard x
39”
47”
18”
The Moon, 2018 Acrylic on Cardboard x 11”
The Shed, 2019 Acrylic on Cardboard 39” x 39”
Dita Jacobovitz
Jacobovitz aims to convey a clean, serene landscape where her viewer can feel at peace. She appreciates nature’s inherent value and hopes to convey this through her work, as she believes our planet is not to be taken for granted. Her work reminds us of our own experiences with being in nature, with fully immersing ourselves in a new place for the very first time. As we gaze into her scenes, we can almost smell the freshness of the grass on the hills or hear the water splash in the Dead Sea. Jacobovitz’s landscapes transport us out of the present and allow us to fully appreciate nature the way she does.
Dita Jacobovitz paints what she sees by soaking up the landscape around her in her native Israel. A member of the Circle Foundation for the Arts and featured in the WE Contemporary Art book in 2021, Jacobovitz has been creating art since she was young. She studied computer science in school, and it was only when she attended art school in Tel Aviv that her career hit a turning point and she developed her own personal style. She bridges these two areas of expertise in her artwork: her calculated and detail-oriented perspective on nature bears the precision of an engineer.
All this Green, 2016 Oil on Canvas 17.5” x 25.5”
Desert Zin, 2021 Oil on Canvas 19.5” x 27.5”
Green Fields, 2021 Oil on bristol 17.5” x 25.5”
Its a Long Way to Paradise, 2020 Oil on Canvas 47” x 59”
My Almond Tree, 2017 Oil on Canvas 15.5” x 12”
Ai-Wen Wu Kratz
Ai-Wen Wu Kratz is originally from Hong Kong. She received a BFA in Painting and Mathematics from Fort Wright College in Spokane, WA and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. She is an alumna of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. She holds a diploma, “Break Into Print” from Institute For Writers, in Madison, CT. In addition to exhibits in the United States, Kratz had one-person exhibitions in France, Germany, England, Egypt and Austria. Her works can be found in private and public collections in Canada, Germany, Bangladesh, Argentina, and the U.S., including the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, MO.
Kratz’s works are visual symphonies, created similarly to the way in which a composer creates music, with equal focus and value on each visual element as an integral part of the whole. Using acrylic paints on canvas, the artist meticulously applies lines, colors, forms, shapes, and movements to create her vibrant abstract pieces. Her work expresses elements of the spiritual, intellectual, and the aesthetic. Kratz hopes that her works bring joy and contentment to the viewer.
Color Logic II / Green, 2018 Acrylic on Canvas 10” x 10”
Color Logic II / Orange, 2018 Acrylic on Canvas 10” x 10”
Color Logic II / Purple, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas 10” x 10”
Color Logic II / Red, 2018 Acrylic on Canvas 10” x 10”
Renewal / Part II, 2014 Acrylic on Canvas 51” x 60”
Belle Roth
Belle Roth explores human interconnection through her use of color, light, and architectural influences. Roth’s compositions are rooted in abstraction; deconstructed forms are unearthed and highlighted by both line and shape that coincide with shimmering gold, neutral color fields, and vibrant accent hues. Simple lines and organic form take the forefront, remaining unedited to reflect the moment of their creation.
To create her pieces, Roth vigorously applies textured acrylics, spray paints, and gold leaf using several different techniques. Her works draw in elements from her Southeast Asian roots and celebrate joyous, unexplored opportunities. Roth creates powerful narratives centered around family, community, equality, and overcoming adversity; she intends her work to inspire ideas about our collective capabilities and hopes to inspire the pursuit of a better world.
Bangkok Day 4, 2021 Acrylic on Canvas 48” x 36”
Jamaica Day 7, 2021 Acrylic on Canvas 40” x 30”
Maui Day 2, on
2022 Acrylic
Canvas 60” x 48”
Sydney Day 5, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas 48” x 36”
Sydney Day 6, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas 48” x 36”
Mark Schiff
Journeying around the world has ignited artist Mark Schiff’s creativity, which he reveals through his watercolor, acrylic, and oil compositions. “Traveling reminds me that I am part of a vast universe filled with extraordinary places and interesting people,” he says. “The adventure of travel gives me an expansive sense of freedom that often becomes the inspiration for many of my paintings.” His travels have taken him to diverse locations, and he explains that each journey heightens his capacity to embrace a wide spectrum of emotions that serve his creative Heavilyprocess.
influenced by his interest in culture, music, and yoga, Schiff’s ability to be guided by intuition opens him to what he refers to as, “the ocean of creativity within.” It is from this place that he paints with bold, deliberate strokes creating eye-catching paintings that sizzle with energy and command the viewers’ attention.
Grenoble Lilies, 2022 Mixed Media on Canvas 48” x 60”
Gstaad Lilies, 2021
Mixed Media on Canvas 60” x 48”
60”
San Miguel Lilies, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas x
48”
St Tropez Lilies, 2021 Acrylic on Canvas 48” x 48”
Strasbourg Lilies, 2021
Mixed Media on Canvas 60” x 48”
Mixed Media on Canvas
48” x 60”
Rouen Lilies, 2022
Sherri Springer
Originally from Montgomery, Alabama, Springer moved to the Florida Panhandle. She holds a business degree in Human Resource Management from Auburn University at Montgomery. After twenty years in the corporate world, she recently became a full-time artist. Springer’s paintings have been exhibited locally and internationally. Her artwork was featured in Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, House & Garden, The World of Interiors, and on HGTV’s My Lottery Dream Home.
Sherri Springer’s relationship with the arts has always been of a highly intuitive nature. When little, she would play the piano by ear, although she only received minimal formal instruction. Similarly, art came into her life spontaneously, when her mother–a talented oil painter–was diagnosed with end-stage cancer. Painting became a way to feel close to her and cope with the difficult reality ahead. Living in Florida, near the Gulf of Mexico, Springer is attracted to serene coastal landscapes, flower fields, and animals. Her abstracts are almost mystical, as if pervaded by an angelic presence. Her palette ranges from soft pastels to bold tones; alternating delicate shading and thick dynamic markings. When painting, Springer lets herself go completely. She feels her way through the painting quickly and instinctively, often using her fingers; sometimes holding two or three brushes at a time. Springer’s ebullient yet reflective personality shines through each of her paintings; her mother’s presence guiding her with its invisible, loving hand.
An Interesting Turn No. 1, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas 36” x 24”
An Interesting Turn No. 2, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas 14” x 11”
An Interesting Turn No. 3, 2022 Acrylic on Canvas
12” x 36”
Colorfully Mystique, 2021 Acrylic on Canvas 36” x 36”
The Endless Garden, t Acrylic on Canvas 24” x 18”
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