Maca Fernandez’s Art Explores Emotional Terrain at Agora Gallery

Sept. 13, 2011 - PRLog -- NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature Chilean-Spanish artist, Maca Fernandez, in Masters of the Imagination: The Latin American Fine Art Exhibition. The exhibition is scheduled to run from September 13, 2011 through October 4, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, September 15, 2011).

About the Artist
Chilean-Spanish artist Maca Fernandez creates fundamentally expressionist images that explore all the feelings and emotions at the core of both societal and individual human experience. She begins with charcoal sketches on cotton canvas and then builds up the image with color, using a limited palette that produces hues both vivid and decidedly sensual. What results is a distinct use of line and color, where all the potential enclosed in the color is able to express itself as it transcends the frontiers of the lines. Used in this way, color becomes one of the main characters of her storytelling, forming a unique symbolism that brings out all the feeling she is trying to convey.

Expressionism lies at the heart of Fernandez’s work and is what makes it so compelling. As she explains, “Painting from these emotions has a feeling of eternity, of strength and flexibility, maybe magic.” Her art reflects the beauty and strength that lie within the emotional terrain that, in the end, is the essence of what makes us human.

Exhibition Dates: September 13, 2011 – October 4, 2011
Reception: Thursday, September 15, 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: http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Maca_Fernandez.aspx

About the Exhibition:
Masters of the Imagination: The Latin American Fine Art Exhibition showcases the compelling creations of talented contemporary Latin American artists. Bursting with creativity, these artists employ their sensitivity, intuition and ingenuity to bring enormous vivacity and mystery to their works. Firmly rooted in their cultural heritage yet equally alive to the possibilities of modern times, they combine their varied experiences to form breathtaking art.

Featured Artists:
Masters of the Imagination: The Latin American Fine Art Exhibition: María Eugenia Akel, Cristina Arnedo, Paloma Bernaldo de Quirós, Alessandra Busanelli, Marcela Cadena, Raul Cantu, Omar Diaz-Morales, María Susana Dos Santos, Carmen Erazo, Nicolas Fasolino, Fausto, Maca Fernandez, Cecilia Fernandez Q, Ignacio Hábrika, kBlanchard, Karin Himmelman, Alberto Montoreano, Andre Netto, Rosa Olivo, Diego Quintavalle, Juan G. Restrepo, Jorge Rivas, Gabriela Robin, Carlos Sucre, Wladimir Tasoff, Jimena Vilchez


About Agora Gallery
Agora Gallery is a fine art gallery, established in 1984 and located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea art galleries district. It is famous for showcasing a spectacular array of talented artists from around the world and around the corner, while providing quality and original art to collectors. Gallery II, an elegant adjacent gallery space, gives artists the ideal area for a solo or group exhibition of their own, organized and publicized by Agora Gallery. The gallery also publishes ARTisSpectrum Magazine, a bi-annual magazine that is distributed to museums, galleries, art institutions and art schools around the world. It provides artists, collectors, museums, galleries, art organizations and enthusiasts with access to the work of international talented artists as well as feature articles, reviews and interviews. Agora Gallery is also the sponsor of ARTmine, one of the most comprehensive resources available worldwide to view and purchase fine art. The gallery also runs Agora Art Blog, a blog designed to provide helpful information and advice for artists while providing a forum for artists to help one another by sharing their experiences and thoughts.