New York Affordable Art Fair - Fall | Sept 20 - 24, 2023

September 20 - September 24 , 2023

Agora Gallery

New York Affordable Art Fair - Fall 2023

William Atkinson

Marco Gallotta

Fiyor

Meredith Knox Barinaeu

Julia Meyerowitz-Katz

Belle Roth

Mark Schiff

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.

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

promotional services. Please reach out to us if you are interested in collaborating with us as an artist, art collector, or art lover.

We look forward to working with you!

Sabrina Gilbertson Director Sabrina@Agora-Gallery.com

Artwork: Saugatuck Lilies by Mark Schiff

William Atkinson

Contemporary artist William Atkinson has been active in the art world for over a decade. Atkinson’s work first took the form of street art in Los Angeles, where he worked under the pseudonym ‘Insurgency Inc.’ As his artwork migrated into the gallery setting, the artist began labeling the paintings with his given name, William Atkinson. While the artist continues to utilize elements from street art, such as symbolism and familiar imagery in artworks, his current work focuses predominantly on personal expression rather than an anonymous cultural critique.

Atkinson’s multi-media works combine imagery from his day-to-day life with imagery from pop culture and street art, which are assembled into collaged pieces. Atkinson applies dynamic brush strokes and lines in a gestural mode to contrast the graphic imagery and leaves his makings exposed and unedited. The lack of shading, and inclusion of negative space allows for a focus on both form and symbolism. The diverse range of materials, source imagery, and the artist’s re-contextualization of figures and text prompt all viewers to consider new paths and perspectives of critical thought.

All Noise Fades, 2022

Mixed media on canvas

60” x 48” (framed)

$8500

Circumstances of Existence, 2022

Mixed media on canvas

60” x 48” (framed)

$8500

Exchange Everything 3, 2022

Mixed media on canvas

36” x 24” (framed)

$3600

Referential Treatment, 2019

Mixed media on canvas

48” x 30” (framed)

$5250

Marco Gallotta

Marco Gallotta is an Italian-born mixed media artist based in New York City. Sourcing material from the city’s diverse urban landscape, he distills fleeting impressions into a unique tapestry of papercuts, drawings, paint marks, and photographs.

His latest series Sidewalk Diaries, set in the streets of Harlem, snaps glimpses of passers-by who walk toward their destination caught in their own thoughts and worries. Ordinary people become the unwitting protagonists of a visual diary–a compendium of distinctive silhouettes, gaits, moods, and sensitivities. Gallotta’s cinematic narrative captures the poetic moments of everyday life. It records the passage of time in its quiet unfolding, investigating the human condition and igniting a universal sense of belonging to the human race.

Gallotta received an Associate’s Degree in Fashion Illustration and a Bachelor’s Degree in General Illustration from the Fashion Institute of Technology. His prominent collector base and clientele include notable brands, institutions, and celebrities including Chanel, Nike, Vogue, Campari, Dolce and Gabbana, the Metropolitan Transit Authority of New York City, Radio City Music Hall, Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone, actor Will Smith, NBA player Gigi Datome, celebrity TV host Samantha Bee, Festival of Spoleto (Italy) and fashion entrepreneur Renzo Rosso.

David, 2018

Photography, papercutting, collage and wax

31.75” x 31.75” (framed)

$4200

Sidewalk Diaries #2, 2019

Photography, papercutting, collage and wax

25.75” x 19.75” (framed)

$4000

Sidewalk Diaries #3, 2019

Photography, papercutting, collage and wax

25.75” x 19.75” (framed)

$4000

Sidewalk Diaries #12, 2019

Photography, papercutting, collage and wax

25.75” x 19.75” (framed)

$4000

Sidewalk Diaries #19, 2019

Photography, papercutting, collage and wax

25.75” x 19.75” (framed)

$4000

Sidewalk Diaries #22, 2019

Photography, papercutting, collage and wax

39.75” x 31” (framed)

$6000

Fiyor

Fiyor is an abstract painter based in Manhattan, New York, which serves as his main source of inspiration. His passion for painting ignited during his childhood, leading to his first solo exhibition at the age of fifteen and earning him recognition for his talent through multiple awards and exhibitions.

Fiyor’s creative process commences with spontaneous and intuitive abstraction, rooted in life’s simplicity and details. He rejects the conventional artist’s brush and instead opts for unique textures and effects, crafting his own tools and techniques rather than relying on commercial materials. His art seeks to ignite emotions tied to cherished memories, inviting viewers on a visual journey through life’s intricacies. He says “If my paintings can make the slightest difference and allow a person to think for a moment and smile or stimulate a memory, then I have achieved one of my goals in life.”

Acoustic Deep, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

46” x 34”

$7300

Disguised Blessing, 2022

Acrylic on canvas

42” x 42”

$7400

Rooted Seeds, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

46” x 34”

$7300

46” x 34”

$7300

Meredith Knox Barineau

Meredith Knox Barineau paints whimsical abstractions in watercolor, ink, and beeswax inspired by the American South. With a predilection for marine, botanical, and zoomorphic motifs, the artist plays with the intersection of shapes and spatial depth, interweaving layers of translucency into striking chromatic visuals. The sophistication and elegance of Barineau’s paintings betray her extensive background in jewelry design. Although sourced from direct observation, the natural elements and everyday objects that serve as inspiration for her paintings combine and intertwine into exquisite ornamentation. Pebbles glimmer in the sun like opal gemstones; droplets on a car windshield transform into luminous quartz crystals; rusted metal plates take on the luxuriant striations of jasper. A beautiful parure, a string of sapphires, a lavish amber brooch: Barineau’s paintings offer a splendid sublimation of reality. The preciousness of the natural world is highlighted and treasured, as the faithful artist invites us to love and respect our earthly home while being in continuous awe of the divine. “My work delights in God’s creation,” she says. The beauty shines through.

Meredith Knox Barineau received a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Spanish Literature from Vanderbilt University. She has participated in numerous exhibitions in Texas and Louisiana and has won several awards. She loves to travel and shares her time between Houston, Texas, and Bluffton, South Carolina.

Mixed media on paper

47” x 32”

$5600

Murano Glass, 2019

Mixed media on paper

30” x 24”

$2600

Pearls, 2012

Mixed media on paper

39” x 32”

$3800

Puzzling, 2012 Mixed media on paper

39” x 32”

$3800

Skeletal, 2019

Mixed media on paper

29” x 23”

$2600

Drawing on her understanding of the nuanced complexity in the layered emotional mind and complexity of interpersonal relationship, Julia Meyerowitz-Katz expertly creates visual palimpsests with every mark, shape, and gesture she brings into being. Meyerowitz-Katz’s method aims to invite the viewer to feel themselves sensorially into the layered complexity of the layering and superimposition of marks and forms. Dashes and mixtures of oil sticks, paints, graphite dust and more are added until energy has been thoroughly expressed to and from the surface. Marks on the surface are dynamic: they hover, push forward, retreat away; they might suggest form and then immediately deny that, emphasizing instead their integrity and sensuality. When viewing the work, there is a tension between allowing uncertainty and amplification and needing to attribute definite meaning. The viewer is invited to feel themselves into the drawing or the painting’s journey and to allow the resultant image to facilitate a corresponding inner journey. Every work is a telling of impulse, emotion, and personal or collective experience, which Meyerowitz-Katz especially connects to because of her encounters with the hidden complexity of human experience in her mental health work.

“I am working at depth with people, who like me, have their own stories, their own intergenerational inheritances and who are being affected by massive global uncertainties and challenges,” she says. “All my work in one way or another, is an expression of my embodied unconscious responses to the vagaries of uncertainty, trauma, and loss as well as the capacity for connection and joy which we all share.”

Meyerowitz-Katz lives, creates and practices in Sydney, Australia. She is a certified Jungian analyst, has a Master’s and Postgraduate Diploma in Art Therapy and a BA in Fine Arts with Honors. She is particularly drawn to the invitation in the work of de Kooning and Joan Mitchell to feel into the dynamic tension between depth and surface via color, line, shape, and movement.

Bearing Witness: Even Maybe You (I), 2021

Mixed media on paper

51.5” x 35.5”

$4100

It could have been me. (We are still here. And we sing) (II), 2023

Oil on canvas

47.5” x 35.5”

$3950

It could have been me. (We are still here. And we sing) (III), 2023

Oil on canvas

47.5” x 35.5”

$3950

It could have been me. (We are still here. And we sing) (V), 2023

$3600

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.

Hamptons Day 3, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

60” x 48”

$7350

Jamaica Day 7, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

40” x 30”

$5650

Manhattan Day 5, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

40” x 30”

$5650

Manhattan Day 6, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

40” x 30”

$5650

Manhattan Day 3, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

40” x 30”

$5650

Montreal Day 8, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

48” x 36” (framed)

$6275

Sydney Day 7, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

48” x 36”

$6275

Sydney Day 10, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

40” x 30”

$5650

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 process.

Heavily 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.

Above all, Mark Schiff is a believer in the solidarity of humanity. After hearing his father’s experiences during WWII, Schiff was moved by the plight of war, its effect on people, and man’s inhumanity to man. “These stories inspired me to paint as a way to simply bring more beauty into our troubled world.”

Lausanne Lilies, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

60” x 48” (framed)

$8000

Chamonix Lilies, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

60” x 48” (framed)

$8000

Acrylic on canvas

36” x 72” (framed)

$8000

Horseshoe Pond Lilies

Rhodes Lilies, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

36” x 36”

$5400

Santiago Lilies, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

36” x 36” (framed)

$5400

St Clair Lilies, 2023

Acrylic on canvas

60” x 48” (framed)

$8000

Melbourne Lilies, 2022

Mixed media on canvas

60” x 48” (framed)

$8000

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Agora Gallery is located within the heart of the Chelsea Arts District with available hours from Tuesday – Saturday 11 am - 6 pm.

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