Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Israeli artist, Tsipi Shaish, in Elements of Abstraction. The exhibition is scheduled to run from June 30, 2011 through July 21, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, July 07, 2011).
About the Artist
Tsipi Shaish’s large-scale paintings are made through an intuitive process incorporating acrylic, pastel, charcoal, as well as the occasional adoption of emulsion or collage techniques. Wielding a bold artillery of color, Shaish’s primary mainstays and fuzzy pastels converse with gleeful pandemonium. Partially obscured figures emerge like colorful masks or engaging caricatures of Israeli cultural life. Abstracted figures, cloaks, coats and other transformed subjects mingle with rich streaks of color and shards of sporadic patterning. Some works function like landscapes, dotted here and there with hazy figures, oblong doorways and startlingly totemic symbolism. Based in a kaleidoscopic terrain where objective borders slip and tilt together, these works collapse boundaries and power the imagination through strange and unfamiliar waters.
Tsipi Shaish was born in 1955 in Tel Aviv, Israel and currently lives and works in the city of Yavne. She was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease five years ago, and at the same time discovered her artistic abilities, through which she expresses her optimism and determination and which have come to play a significant role in her identity and life.
Exhibition Dates: June 30, 2011 – July 21, 2011
Reception: Thursday, July 07, 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: www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Tsipi_Shaish.aspx
