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The Agora Gallery is proud to present Irish artists, Martina O'Brien and Adrian Gallagher, in United in Art: an Exhibition of Fine Art from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Exhibition Dates: June 2, 2009 – June 23, 2009
Reception: Thursday, June 4, 2009, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11a.m. - 6 p.m.

About Adrian Gallagher:

Adrian Gallagher’s fascination with the sublime has led him to explore the exquisite nuances of nature and culture. His portraits have a dark intensity, highlighting the unreachable interior circumstances of his subjects. The women in Gallagher’s intricate ink paintings embody the natural phenomena occurring around them, taking on the characteristics of the wind and sea, and suggesting an intimate relationship between nature and individuality. The facial features alone express a whole gamut of emotion, from reflection to furor. His work engages a beauty-inspired dialogue that has compelled thinkers and artists for centuries. Like Immanuel Kant and Caspar David Friedrich before him, Gallagher is driven to understand the emotional insights that exist just below consciousness. In his paintings, realism, romanticism, darkness and beauty coexist as one inseparable entity. "My art work is an honest effort at approaching the terror of beauty, and all of the complications that it may broach."

A graduate of Dun Laoighaire IADT, Gallagher has exhibited widely throughout Ireland. He currently lives and works in Hollywood Co Wicklow, Ireland.

About Martina O'Brien:

Elemental yet impressionistic, Irish artist Martina O'Brien artfully captures the essence of a place; her body of work is born of breathtaking beauty and the elemental power of the sea. Along with oil paints, she may add a variety of mixed media, including hemp, sand and beeswax to achieve a wide range of effects. The textural quality adds a dazzling sense of motion, as light refracting off the surface a viewer’s eyes move rapidly around the composition.

O’Brien places the seas within our own emotional landscape, the tide becoming a metaphor for life’s fluctuation between tranquility and turbulence. In this sense, the art takes on an immediacy that speaks to our imagination while the colors, light and textures appeal to the senses. “As the sea is an ever- changing subject, I am constantly drawn to capture its vitality and uplifting mood-altering presence in my work,” she explains. In recent years O’Brien has been on a rigorous exhibition agenda throughout Ireland, with works held in public and private collections

AGORA GALLERY
Agora Gallery (www.agora-gallery.com) is a fine art gallery located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea art district that was established in 1984 and 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. The gallery also publishes ARTisSpectrum Magazine, a bi-annual magazine that is distributed to museums, galleries, cultural and art institutions and societies and art schools around the world. It provides artists, collectors, museums, galleries, art organizations and enthusiasts with access to the work of hundreds of internationally talented emerging and mid-level artists as well as feature articles, reviews and interviews and is the sponsor of Art-Mine.com, one of the most comprehensive resources available worldwide to view and purchase fine art from emerging, mid-level and well-established artists.

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