Detail: The Asian art world comes to America at Agora Gallery, with East Meets West: An Exhibition of Fine Art from Asia. Featuring artists from China, Japan, and South Korea, East Meets West is a treat for New Yorkers to see contemporary art from a new perspective, right in their own backyard. With styles spanning the traditional to the avant-garde, each artist brings a unique mode of understanding their country’s history and culture in their artwork. From brilliantly colored paintings to traditional black and white ink, the works of East Meets West reconcile culture-clash with our globalized world.

Featured Artists:

East Meets West: An Exhibition of Fine Art from Asia

Takashi Kogawa | Su-Jeong NAM | Agameishi | Michael Lam | Hao Jing | Koya | MIKIKO | Shoji Suzuki

Featured in Pulse of Abstraction

Bright, confrontational, and enigmatic, the acrylic paintings of Japanese artist Yozo Abe are unmatched in verve. His painting style is chameleonic, with a style that varies with sophistication to match his message and subject matter. Yozo Abe plays with line, texture, and light in turn. However, certain graphic elements remain constant across his body of work. Colors are always vivid; space is flattened; figures are representational, but exaggerated and sharpened; and the compositions are constructed so as to throw the viewer off balance. For every piece of information that is revealed about a scene, another is withheld. Energy jolts across the canvas, figures dance – much is apparently happening, but the viewer does not know why. Yozo Abe’s world is enjoyably opaque. He describes his process as “painting in abandon,” and invites viewers to come up with their own interpretations.

Yozo Abe was born in Aichi, Japan and has exhibited in his home country as well as Spain and the United States. He is a self-taught artist.

http://www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/Yozo_Abe.aspx

About Agora Gallery

Agora Gallery is a contemporary fine art gallery located in the heart of Chelsea’s fine art district in New York. Established in 1984, Agora Gallery specializes in connecting art dealers and collectors with national and international artists. The art gallery’s expert consultants are available to assist corporate and private clients in procuring original artwork to meet their organization’s specific needs and budget requirements. With a strong online presence and popular online gallery, ARTmine, coupled with the spacious and elegant physical gallery space, the work of our talented artists, who work in diverse media and styles, can receive the attention it deserves. Over the years Agora Gallery has sponsored and catered to special events aimed at fostering social awareness and promoting the use of art to help those in need.