AFFORDABLE ART FAIR NEW YORK - SPRING
March 22 - March 26, 2023
Booth E3 | Metropolitant Pavilion
125 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA
Agora Gallery
New York Affordable Art Fair - Spring 2023
William Atkinson
Ellen Globokar
Holly Grosvenor
Lina Husseini
Dita Jacobovitz
Yuji Mostafavee
Mark Schiff
Katja van den Bogaert
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
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We look forward to working with you!
Sabrina Gilbertson Director Sabrina@Agora-Gallery.com
Artwork: Saugatuck Lilies
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”
Of Existence, 2022
Media on Canvas
x 48”
Circumstances
Mixed
60”
Exchange Everything 1, 2022 Mixed Media on Canvas 36” x 24”
Everything 2, 2022
Media on Canvas 36” x 24”
Exchange
Mixed
I Climb, 2019 Mixed Media on Canvas 60” x 48”
Ellen Globokar
Ellen Globokar grew up in western Michigan with a pencil and a sketchpad close at hand. From a very young age, she was commissioned to draw portraits and displayed her watercolors at juried art shows. After two decades working in politics and government, she returned to her passion for art. Citing Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and the Bay Area Figurative Movement as her main inspiration, Globokar paints alla prima, capturing tranquil views of marine sunsets, lush gardens touched by soft rays of lavender light, and solitary rural landscapes. Her collages, made of scraps of hand-dyed Japanese paper, are also inspired by the colors and atmospheres of the seashore and countryside. Different depths and textures are achieved by arranging pieces of varying thickness and shapes, while metallic paint is added for a shimmering effect. Her work emanates a soothing contemplative beauty, an intimate communion with nature, offering a much-needed escape from the mundanity of life.
A resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland, Globokar received formal instruction at the Art League of Alexandria, Virginia. There she participated in numerous juried exhibitions, winning “Best in Show.” She had two successful shows at the Peninsula Art Gallery in Lewes, Delaware, and was a featured artist at Beebe Medical Center’s Best of the Beach Art Auction in Rehoboth.
A Sea Change, 2022 Collage on Canvas
30” x 24”
Calico Skies, 2022 Collage on Canvas 30” x 24”
Away, 2022 Collage on Canvas 30” x 40”
Drift
Huwak’a 1, 2023
Collage on Canvas 36” x 24” (12” x 12” each)
Huwak’a 2, 2023
Collage on Canvas 24” x 36” (12” x 12” each)
Me On The Water, 2022 Collage on Canvas 48” x 36”
Rock
Water Music, 2022 Collage on Canvas 30” x 24”
Holly Grosvenor
New England-based painter Holly Grosvenor captures the mesmerizing luminosity of her environment. The daughter of renowned watercolorist and oil painter Richard Grosvenor, she grew up on a diet of sketching trips and observations during her father’s classes. Grosvenor’s paintings are based on dozens of plein air watercolor sketches and photographs, which she takes for more detailed reference. Acting on her self-proclaimed obsession with luminosity, she studies sunlight as it reflects off the surface of a natural element or artificial object and the way it changes throughout the day, seasons, or weather conditions.
The iridescent quality of light, the way it fragments into rays of different colors, filters through water, and touches the bottom of the sea is a source of endless fascination for the artist. With meticulous precision, Grosvenor eternalizes fleeting miracles of the everyday. “Passing moments of uncelebrated beauty,” she calls them, seemingly sterile objects rendered beautiful by light. By opening our eyes to the wonders that surround us, Grosvenor fosters a deep appreciation for the here and now. She cites Impressionism, Fauvism, Abstract Expressionism, and American Transcendentalism as her inspirations.
Grosvenor has a B.A. in Environmental Design from Brown University and an M.A. in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She has been a practicing architect for forty years. She lives and works in western Massachusetts.
Iridescent, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas 36” x 48”
Prism, 2021
Acrylic on Canvas 40” x 30”
Whirl, 2023
Acrylic on Canvas
40” x 30”
Lina Husseini
Lina Husseini’s brightly colored sculptures loop and swirl around themselves, eclipsing and challenging academic rules and regulations. Exuberant in their presentation, the pieces take on a life of their own as they become characters in playful display. Husseini’s sculptures of metal, wood, clay, acrylic, glass, and PVC wind and unravel, twirl and cross back and forth conveying a sense of joyful buoyancy. Husseini grew up in Lebanon and France–her work expresses a transcendence of East and West as her influence stems from both. As such, her repertoire has been shown in Beirut, Lebanon, where she lives, as well as France and the US. Beginning her self-taught practice using papier-mâché, she built on these skills to explore various mediums playing with material, color, and composition. She uses her practice to take everyday materials out of context, challenging cultural notions of use value and the quotidien and using her work to signal an optimistic transcendence of the human arenas of politics and society. Husseini lets her intuition inform her practice, eluding labels and evading classification.
Husseini exhibited extensively in her native Lebanon as well as the United States. Her sculpture Together is part of the permanent collection of the Peoria Riverfront Museum, in Peoria, Illinois. She also participated in auctions in the USA to raise funds for student scholarships in Lebanon and cancer treatment.
Hugging, 2022
Painted PVC 18” x 9.5” x 6.5”
Roller Coaster, 2022
Painted PVC 12.5” x 10.5” x 10”
Waves, 2022
Painted PVC
11.5” x 9” x 9”
Desert Rose, 2022
Painted PVC 7.5” x 12” x 10.5”
Pilgrims, 2022
Painted PVC 10” x 10” x 7”
Whirl, 2022
Painted PVC
7.5” x 8.5” x 6.5”
Dita Jacobovitz
Dita Jacobovitz creates from what she sees as a field of research, exploring the landscape around her. 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 joined a group of artists and curators called “going out of the studio,” which offers an academic environment for mutual feedback and group artistic works .
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.
Genome, 2022 Oil on Canvas 43” x 47”
Desert Zin, 2021 Oil on Canvas 19.5” x 27.5”
Evolving Landscape, 2021 Oil on Canvas 43” x 51”
My Almond Tree, 2017 Oil on Canvas 15.5” x 12”
Yuji Mostafavee
Yuji Mostafavee creates large acrylic paintings of edenic environments that offer a muchneeded escape from the artificial milieu of city life. Every year Mostafavee would travel to Mexico for a few months to get a taste of tropical paradise. During the Covid pandemic, she decided to recreate her personal exotic sanctuary with a collection of vibrantly colored paintings featuring lush vegetation and wildlife. A former fashion designer, Mostafavee is heavily influenced by haute couture, keeping up with contemporary trends and patterns. Harnessing Mostafavee’s expert handling of color and compositions, her designs exude the sophisticated glamor of a Chanel purse or a Hermès scarf. They recreate exclusive ambiences where the viewer can indulge in a bit of forbidden luxury.
As an undergraduate, Mostafavee studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design in New York and architecture and interior design at Waseda University in Tokyo. She earned a Master in Fashion Design and Fashion Marketing at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. When working in fashion, she designed John Varvatos and Ralph Lauren collections and creative presentations, and was involved in award-winning exhibitions and fairs in New York, Hong Kong, and Japan. Mostafavee works and lives in New York City.
Black Horse, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
48” x 36”
Fall, 2022
Acrylic & Marker on Paper
17” x 14”
Flower 5, 2022
Acrylic & Marker on Paper
24” x 19”
Flower 8, 2022
Acrylic & Marker on Paper 24” x 19”
Green Cactus II, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
36” x 36”
Purple Beetle, 2022
Acrylic and Marker on Paper 20” x 16”
Spring, 2022
Acrylic & Marker on Paper
17” x 14”
Summer, 2022
Acrylic & Marker on Paper
17” x 14”
Winter, 2022
Acrylic & Marker on Paper
17” x 14”
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.”
Lilies, 2022 Mixed Media on Canvas 60”
Annecy
x 48”
Cartegena Lilies, 2022
Mixed Media on Canvas 60” x 48”
Florence Lilies, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
36” x 36”
Hydra Lilies, 2023
Mixed Media on Canvas
60” x 48”
Ibiza Lilies, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
48” x 48”
Palermo Lilies, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
60” x 36”
Media
60”
Melbourne Lilies, 2022 Mixed
on Canvas
x 48”
San Miguel Lilies, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas 60” x 48”
Katja van den Bogaert
Former ballet teacher and entrepreneur Katja van den Bogaert sees her abstract paintings in terms of action and vibration. Bridging the gap between dance and fine art, she builds freeflowing shapes and patterns inspired by the natural world. Katja’s carefree and boisterous spirit becomes evident on her linen canvases through layered and blended paints, which take on organic forms and structures. Each composition reveals a story, a world hidden deep beyond the surface, which is told in the language of texture, line, color, and form. When painting, Katja draws from an intuitive rather than conscious place. Her abstracts allow her the freedom to create on impulse driven by instinct.
Born in the Netherlands, Katja received a degree from the Dance Academy of Art in Tilburg, where she worked for several years before opening a teahouse with a friend. While she enjoyed running her own business, Katja ultimately decided to follow a creative path towards her passion: depicting her inner sanctum through large canvases that appear to take on a life of their own.
Untitled 3, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
47” x 39.5”
Untitled 4, 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
47” x 39.5”
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