NYC exhibition features Wiscasset artist’s work
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Wiscasset contemporary American artist R. Keith Rendall in “The Kaleidoscope of the Mind.” The exhibition opens Tuesday, Nov. 4 through Nov. 25. The public is invited to attend the opening reception Thursday, Nov. 6, 6 to 8 p.m.
From photorealistic renderings to energetic abstractions, the artwork in “The Kaleidoscope of the Mind” demonstrates the myriad truths artists investigate through their work.
The artists featured in this exhibition express themselves using a range of techniques, which meld together in a mosaic of visions, personal truths, and questions of existence. In this show, physicality is evocative, abstraction is descriptive, and every technique is meaningful.
Artists whose work comprise the exhibit are Marie Åkerlund, Feride Binicioglu, Edelweiss Calcagno, Eli Cantini, CORDERO, Marie Delabos, Valeria Guarnieri, Sandra Mueller-Dick, Marina Olmi, Stanley Peach, Fintan Ryan, Sarah Webb, Janet Wilson and Rendall.
“Images conceived and realized in intaglio and relief can be graced with truth,” said Rendall, whose large-scale woodcut prints on paper explore the elements and nature in unusual but moving form. With birds, especially waterfowl, as a reoccurring motif, Rendall’s works offer a mysterious entry point into the ancient rhythms of humanity.
Rendered in stark relief with generous contrasts of light and dark, his semi-narrative works on paper offer a point of view and a point of departure.
In Rendall’s latest series, “The Aged and Unknown,” we see detailed renderings of birds and other mammals nestled in their natural habitats like majestic totems.
Adopting the rich language of sign, myth and metaphor to explore our human relationship to animals both high and low, his intricately rendered woodcuts simply glimmer with the resilience of ancient mother tongues.
His gallery, Rendall Fine Art, is located at 65 Main Street in Wiscasset.
The Agora Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located in the heart of Chelsea's fine art district at 530 West 25th Street in Chelsea. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, visit www.agora-gallery.com.
