ArtDeadline.Com Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Selected Artists

New York, New York - Agora Gallery announces the selected artists of the Chelsea International Fine Art Competition. They represent not just artists, but the countries and communities they hail from, each piece reflecting a little of humanity's many faceted soul. As part of an ongoing commitment to "giving back to the community we live and work in", Agora Gallery will be donating 25% of its proceeds of the sale of artwork from the competition exhibition to the non-profit organization - Art Start. Through its innovative programs, Art Start brings together art, artists and children in need throughout the Metropolitan Area.

Selected Artists (many of whom are ArtDeadline.Com subscribers):
Adrienne Lesperance, Andreas Papanastasiu, Anna Druzcz, Ardan Ozmenoglu, Aviva Baharav, Berivan Sayici, Brett Bell, Caterina Pacialeo, Claire Brewster, Dana and Ruth Avra. David Arbus, Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn, Heather Mae Erickson, Jan and Loren Lachauer, John Bartoo, Josep Frances Anaya, Maarit Murka, Magda Dini, Maggie Evans, Mariko Sugiura, Marisa Atha, Miriam Cabessa, Orly Aviv, Peter Krsko, Rei Disho, Steve Yeates, Stuart Bush, Suhee Wooh, The Love Movement, Ulrika Anderson, Yumiko

Award winners include:

Eva Armental
Irene Abdou
Jessica Alonso
Julia Blum
Lisa Bagwell
Teixeira Barbosa
Wolfgang Auer
Martin Boettcher
Mary Heller
Caroline Hall

Exhibition:
August 15, 2008 through September 4, 2008
Reception:Thursday, August 21, 2008. 6-8PM

Gallery Location:

Agora Gallery
530 West 25th St.
Chelsea, New York

Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat, 11am - 6pm

About the Gallery:
Established in 1984, Agora Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of national and international contemporary artists. The Gallery caters to the taste and trends of the sophisticated New York art market and the Gallery's discerning worldwide collector base. The Gallery's wide client-base includes private collectors, art consultants, corporate art consultants, architects and interior designers as well as business, government, diplomatic and social VIPs. Agora Gallery offers the client an extraordinary opportunity to acquire some of the most carefully curated art in the contemporary, global art market.

Agora Gallery is located in Chelsea at the center of the art community and within close proximity to the Chelsea Museum of Fine Art and the DIA Center for the Arts among others.

Artist & Image Shown:
Work by Maggie Evans - Slow Night, Charcoal on Paper 30" x 60"
A musician from a musical family, Savannah, Georgia-based Maggie Evans portrays the unsettled emptiness of quiet bars in charcoal and pastel works on paper.

Simultaneously evocative and expressive, her smoky, gridded interiors recall the musky static of loud and busy bars, and the thick rhythmic pulse of live music. A mist of grey and ochre-tinged fumes haunts each work, creating dreamy impressions of a bustling scene half-remembered, long gone in Evans's deserted barroom scenery of throbbing lines and murky lighting.