Detail: NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of Shanghai-born artist Lin Sun in In Reverie of Form.

Lin Sun's mixed media paintings evoke artistic traditions as well as historic rituals. Sun's process is informed by an education in stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy. Woven canvas and aluminum often participate as background and texture for Sun’s compositions, and the diverse materials used on Sun's canvases express his attention to folk handicraft. His eye toward the past does not distract Sun’s ability to enliven a still life or cultural relic; instead, the resulting compositions open a view of Chinese culture and actively contemplate modern painting techniques.

With his particular application of mixed media, Sun’s work often embraces a three-dimensional surface. The terrain of the paintings adds subtle, natural shading to Sun’s subjects. Indeed, raised outlines on the canvas place precious materials into new contexts. Aluminum flakes, gold leaf, and silver leaf, along with oil and water based paint, invite the artist’s earth tone palette to join the beautiful scenery of the works’ subjects. This technique conveys the sense of touch through sight. Sun’s strong contrast in form allows his works to behave as tactile spectacles.

Featured artists:

In Reverie of Form

Irina L. Johnson | Charles Weiss | Anastasia Voltchok | Alana O'Hern | Lin Sun | Annamaria Cignola | Michelle Endersby | Branko Miskovic | David George | Joe Datuin | Amalia Padilla-Gregg

About the Exhibition

In Reverie of Form: Bodies of Art

The artists featured in the exhibition In Reverie of Form have embraced using their own unique styles a variety of subjects: from nature to wildlife to the human body. These artists create through painting, sketching, and sculpting extraordinary studies of their chosen themes. Cultural portraits, emotional human sculptures, fashionable farm animals, bright odes to flora, and even a touch of the abstract all come together in this comprehensive collection of contemporary fine art: an exhibition of wonder and re-examination.

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.