Jon Axelrod: Music in Art
The Agora Gallery (530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY, 10001) is proud to present Jon Axelrod in Color of Reverie. Scheduled to run from June 26th through July 17th, the collection will feature a captivating selection of Jon Axelrod's expressive forms.
/Art and Artists News Articles/ - NEW YORK, NY, June 26, 2008 - Jon Axelrod puts musical arrangements on canvas by deploying innumerable expressive forms. Their distinctly musical properties convey rhythm through their alternating shapes, and the varying silent spaces between them. The Florida native recently graduated from Pratt and lives in Brooklyn, where he also works in sculpture, drawing and photography. His paintings are extremely intricate and abstract, conveying movement and energy without depicting identifiable entities. These colorful forms, nonetheless, take on distinct characteristics of shape, weight and movement. The effect is of a choreographed dance of vaguely cubist abstractions over the canvas's surface.
Indeed, Axelrod also composes digital music, which then serves as inspiration for much of his visual artworks. Not surprisingly, then, his paintings are extremely expressive. Their titles and expressionistic properties create coherent meaning despite the canvases' abstraction. Through form, alternation, color and shading, Jon Axelrod visualizes the ideas expressed by his titles, while also offering viewers many other interpretations. His paintings' titles, then, become only one of the many ways his audience might hear his works.
Exhibition Dates: June 26, 2008 through July 17, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 6-8 pm
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm
Jon Axelrod's work may be seen on
http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Jon_Axelrod.aspx
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