Orange Artist, Susan Marx, Featured in NYC Exhibition

Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature New Jersey artist, Susan Marx, in Portal to Enigma. The exhibition is scheduled to run from June 4, 2011 through June 25, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, June 9, 2011).

About the Artist

Vivid, evocative color splashes through the transcendent planes of lush paint that characterize Susan Marx’s work. Spontaneous brushstrokes produce a playful sense of the organic and immediate. Her dedication to formalism, combined with her passionate reinterpretation of the world, results in paintings that are as breathtaking as they are compelling. “My art is a result of my radical amazement at the visual world around me and my need to turn that visual experience into paint. Nature may be my starting point, but it is not my end result,” she explains. Her paintings are in conversation with artists such as Monet, Van Gogh and Joan Mitchell, yet she strikes a unique note, enlightened by her own visual impressions. Marx often paints outside, en plein air, and even when working inside is informed by this direct experience of nature, inhaling natural beauty and exhaling her sensations in a truly impassioned creation of color that epitomizes the current moment.

Exhibited widely throughout the United States, Marx’s work can be found in private collections in the United States and abroad. Susan Marx lives in Orange, New Jersey.

Exhibition Dates: June 4, 2011 – June 25, 2011

Reception: Thursday, June 9, 2011, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Gallery Location: 530 West 25^th St, New York City

Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11a.m. - 6 p.m.

Event URL: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Susan_Marx.aspx

About the Exhibition:

United in Art displays the works of talented fine artists from the UK.  The audience will be enthralled by this confident and expressive art which manages to combine a sense of stability with a lively, dynamic tone. In Portal to Enigma, we are invited to ponder the beguiling wonder of the world through art that expresses both an appreciation of beauty and a challenging desire to see beyond it. The Substance of Abstraction shows the artwork of artists who have used their own personal experiences to create evocative abstract expressions which speak directly to the emotions of the viewer.

Featured Artists:

The Substance of Abstraction: Olivier D, Flavio Pellegrino, Rudelle ("Rudelle Fay Hall"), Rina Shukor

Portal to Enigma: Mihai Bara, Yeji Jun, Susan Marx, Kelly Sellers, Elio Talon, VéroniKaH, Jeong-Han Yun

United in Art: Fine Art from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Wendy Hyde, Jane Robbins, Richard Stuttle, Zoran Tosic

Image Credit- Susan Marx, Untitled (Day 3), 2010, Acrylic on Masonite