OIL PORTRAITS THAT TELL YOUR STORY
Upcoming Shows and Exhibitions

NEW JURIED ART SHOWS
2020 - 2021

(212) 226-4151
530 W 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
Fall Equinox: A Collective Exhibition
NYC AGORA
GALLERY
Sept 17th-
OCT 7 2019
OPENING
RECEPTION
Sept 19th, 2019
DATES
June 13-14 Charlottesvile VA Cancelled
July 4-5 Asheville, NC Cancelled
July 16-19 Ann Arbor MI Cancelled
July 25-26 Keystone, CO Cancelled
August 1-2 Beaver Creek, CO Cancelled
September 5-6 Arlington, VA cancelled
October 17-18 Las Olas Ft Lauderdale
Oct 24-25 Sarasota, FL
Nov 7-8 Venice, FL ?
Nov 14--15 St Armands, Sarasota
Nov 21-22 West Palm Beach
Nov 28-29 Delray Beach
Dec 27-28 Coconut Point
Jan 2-3 2021 Las Olas Ft lauderdale
Jan 9-10 Boca Raton
Jan 16-17 Delray Beach
Feb 3-4 Boca Museum Mizner Park canceled
Feb 3-4 Ft Meyers
Feb 13-14 Miami
Feb 20-21 Estero
Feb 27-28 Stuart
March 6-7 Las Olas Ft lauderdale
March 13- 14Juno Beach
March 20-21 Coral Springs
April 10-11 W. Palm Beach

Original Oil Paintings That Tell YOUR Story:
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Marlene Kurland
With oil paint on canvas, artist Marlene Kurland transcends everyday experiences and imbues them with a joie de vivre, a joy of living. The personalities in her contemporary artwork radiate happiness as they walk on a sparkling beach or gather for family festivities. Their energy seems to break through the rectilinear confines of linen and wood stretcher bars, inviting the viewer to shift from stranger to informal friend and share in their celebration of life. At Agora Gallery, as Kurland exhibits her Wedding series, viewers can feel the experience of their own dreamy wedding memories or imagine an upcoming personal event of their own. In her previous series, also exhibited at Agora Gallery, cell phones were the main focus of her work, emblems of the modern experience of the social placed amidst more traditional imagery.
Inspired by the 19th-century French impressionist painters, Renoir and Monet, and post-impressionist Bonnard, Kurland utilizes color and light to emphasize emotion. In both of her Maryland and Florida studios, she often lays down shapes and neutral pigments at the outset of her process. Kurland adds bold brushstrokes of varied hue, deliberately forming the dynamic and energetic mood of her portraits. Academic backgrounds in psychology and art inform her paintings, combining the power of optimism with visual communication to capture the soul of her subjects. In a world where negative news can influence an individual's outlook on life, Kurland aims to evoke positive dialog with delightful moments through familiar and newly created memories.
In addition, Kurland is frequently commissioned for family paintings, ordered by collectors from all over the world and inspired by their favorite photos. As Kurland stated, "I look forward to painting the love of you and your family members...a gift they will treasure forever!" Kurland includes in all of her commissioned paintings her upbeat and unique style to give life, through a canvas, to each family she paints, thus creating a loving, cherished, personal gift that inevitably elicits great emotion.