Agora Gallery features Shifra in "Altered States of Reality" |
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| Wednesday, 19 November 2008 03:37 |
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NEW YORK, NY -The Agora Gallery is proud to present Shifra in Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Fine Art Photography. Scheduled to run from November 19th through December 9th, the collection will feature a captivating selection of Shifra's dynamic photographs. Shifra's photographic explorations of the city highlight dynamic attributes of steel, stone, and glass that are easily overlooked in daily life. Dissembling space and skewing the conventions of perspective, her large format photography allows audiences to encounter the world from unusual points of view.
Other works are more graceful in their simplicity; textures of decrepit buildings with layers of paint, concrete, and wood are transformed into painterly elements. Her photography has been exhibited since the late 1970s with enthusiastic acclaim and was recently featured in two solo exhibitions and collected in a book. Shifra lives and works in Ramat-Gan, Israel. About the Exhibition: Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Fine Art Photography provides a glimpse of the world as captured through the lens of a camera, technology, and through the artists own inner vision. The gifted artist’s participating in Altered States of Reality offer us a perception of the world, as seen, through a complex, enigmatic fusion of emotions and technical mastery. The old boundaries have come tumbling down and the new reality has been altered and is forever changing. This exciting exhibition allows us to challenge our ideas, parables and perceptions that constitute our own reality. Featured Artists: Masaki Asakawa, Michael Bajko, Julia Cher, John Howard Davies, Rupert Davis, Justice De Los Santos, Zeev Deckel, Jonathan Doner, Vicky Elliott, Massimiliano Favilli, Arihiro Hamda, Matt Isaac, Rory Isserow, Jemma Jacques, Ethel Jimenez, Joblueheart, David LaBella, Christophe Moratal, No., Carol Reid, Makoto Sasaki, Shifra, Ryan Van Der Hout, Benjamin van der Zalm, Lawrence von Knorr, Joy Wai Click here to see the exhibition catalog: http://www.agora-gallery.com/exhibitionannouncement/11_19_2008.aspx AGORA GALLERY Agora Gallery established in 1984, is a fine art gallery dedicated to the promotion of national and international artists, providing quality and original art to established and emerging collectors and catering to special events in support of fine art. The gallery is also the publisher of ARTisSpectrum Magazine and the sponsor of Art-Mine.com. - Angela Di Bello Director - 530 West 25th St. - Chelsea, New York City, NY 10001, USA - Visit : http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Shifra.aspx |
“I love the bustle and noise of the city, and in it I discovered the magic world of reflections,” she explains. With her studies of reflection in the urban world, Shifra bends our sense of reality by selecting vivid settings and cropping out orienting details for amplified visual impact. With their lush colors, innovative perspectives, and investigations into the geometric arrays and reflective surfaces of the modern urban environment, Shifra 's photographs capture moments of idiosyncratic visual arrangements in ways that are both technically complex and emotionally accessible. Unique contrasts in color also attract Shifra, and indeed the city is a rich resource for a wide variety of tones and moods as she exploits the urban landscape's combination of glass skyscrapers, reflective surfaces, water, and other possibilities for unique viewpoints. In this world a mirror, puddle, or overlapping panes of glass hold exciting visual puzzles that possess levels of meaning. 
