AMSTERDAM WHITNEY GALLERY, located at 210 Eleventh Avenue (between 25th & 24th Streets) - Chelsea, New York City, is proud to show in its “CHELSEA BIENNALE” JUNE 8-AUGUST 2024 Exhibition, contemporary Master Artists whose work explores the abstract, figurative, and natural worlds. With exhilarating paintings and acclaimed sculptures, these renown artists exalt the realm of the aesthetic through brilliant coloration and dazzling form.  

This special “Chelsea Biennale” exhibition, highlighted by the “Hollywood Glitter & Glow Gala” Champagne Reception on Saturday, June 8th, from 2:00-4:00 pm, offers a magical tribute which will enchant the senses of both art acquisitors and art aficionados alike. This sparkling summer exhibition overflows with an intoxicating bubbling visual champagne toast to the prismatic wonders of the natural world as it reflects a masterful incandescent renewal of the visual realm. These noteworthy international and national masters define the cultural cross-section of the modern art world and pulsate with dynamic synergy and expressive artistic creativity. While rendering a visual lexicon of sophisticated, eclectic, and often joyful representations of the world, they shine the spotlight on a unique, universal artistic language, creating panoramas infused with creative spirit.

 

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TOM ASHBOURNE’s multi-colored, museum-caliber sculptures synthesize a newly defined abstract sculptural language with non-objective carved color stone master works which unite a harmonious abstract combination to reveal the invisible within the visible, infused with harmony, balance and rhythm, manifesting color, volume, and shape. 

 

NANCY BALMERT, “Queen of the Flowers” as well as an “Artistic Ambassador to Nature,” enlarges the visible natural world with spiritual oil compositions which reach to the heavens as they bloom with a fusion of mosaic, chromatic colors, creating an up-close celebration of the kingdoms of heaven and earth. Cajoling us to inhale every beautiful petal and rejoice in the sky as we exhale their joy, she brilliantly illustrates the subliminal effects of her enchanted natural realms, reminding us that nature is a divine gift from God.

 

MAURIZIO DIANA “New Horizons” series shines the spotlight on a visionary world as he intuitively presents iconography from the past and present, highlighting illuminated allegorical symbols and shapes, while masterfully blending imageries and languages of cultures which amalgamate diverse artistic icons to become a visual metaphor for the complexities of life's cross-cultural experiences.

 

GENHE DING’s “Civilized Savage” series, inspired by both the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the Covid Crises, represents a broad sixty year historical and cultural sweep, dominated by themes of Covid-clad figures wearing protective Hazmat suits embellished with artifacts from the 1960's Chinese Cultural Revolution.

 

RONI LYNN DOPPELT deconstructs reality with her gem-like abstract series which chromatically pays homage to her love of family reflecting kaleidoscopic hues and a dazzling color wheel, offering an incandescent, parallax non-figurative phenomenal vision of  an expressionistic inner world which spiritually treasures sensorial vibrations and organic rainbow-hued shapes.

 

MATI GELMAN’s masterful digital collage male-oriented photography serves as a portal to the depths of the male psyche as he visually interprets the tangled web of interpersonal connections with his sophisticated photography which evokes his reflection of life, love, and queer identity, as well as offering a unique and fresh perspective on the influence of social media on humankind.

 

FRANK HOEFFLER integrates new abstract visual vocabularies of conjured semi-discernable forms that are culled from both contemporary visual culture and his vivid imagination which creates a fantasy universe, translating daily occurrences and filtering them through his fascinating perspective.

 

ELKE JUNGBLUTH explores the various formations of color’s spectrum by investigating the diverse relationships between highly saturated, opulent hues with dramatic, volatile layers of color combinations exploding with unexpected contrasting lines which introduce intangible emotions into tangible, dazzling polychromatic canvases.

 

NERYS LEVY honors nature as she artistically channels a visceral response to the environment, encouraging us to treasure and conserve our world as she illustrates the importance of the terrain with dazzling international landscapes which bear a spectrum of exploding, chromatic colors, transforming the joy of nature into a resonant artistic narrative.

 

SALLY McDEVITT’s landscape compositions blend the sky and the earth as they pulsate with a captivating conversation with Mother Nature, filtered through a sensorial perception of the terrain while chromatically portraying the splendors of the natural world as she celebrates the sublime majesty of our environment.

 

LISE MERCURE's incandescent, abstract paintings communicate an inner tangibility and speak volumes of the human spirit by mixing gestural color-fields with organic shapes, resulting in the perfect synthesis between color, shape, and texture, articulating the sublime equilibrium of non-representational art.

 

JOHN PETERS' trans luminescent, mosaic-hued nature series which are interspersed with dazzling gold, commemorate the celestial glories of a more abstracted view of nature, synthesizing an extraordinary inter-connection between humankind and the terrain, manifesting a kaleidoscopic spectrum of internal emotions which metamorphose into a glowing, majestic vision of the topography of the land.

SADY PINEDA's illuminated multi-colored and heavily impasto abstracted flora and fauna oil paintings are prismatic portals which metamorphose into an artistic dialogue on the spiritual and emotional awareness of the divinity of nature, as their abstracted, chromatic beauty shines the spotlight on the fantasy and splendor of the floral kingdom.

 

LORI WEISBART-POLSON’s“Instagram Generation” social narrative, female figurative series are frozen pictorial snapshots of the immediate, private activities of the “Insta-gals.” who encapsulate the Instagram moment as it commemorates the impact that social media has on our lives, particularly on young women, and features a vibrant socio-cultural commentary on the "Instagram Girls" in the "Insta-Universe." 

 

SALLY RUDDY’s “Tranquil Visions” award-winning nature-inspired series serenely evokes a huetopian, enchanted dreamscape where she magically illustrates emotional dreams and illuminated visions of nature’s mystification which are organically rich in hue, visualizing the divine aspects of the sublimity of a lyrical, visible realm.

 

LIHONG ZHANG floral compositions intermingle East meets with West, culminating in a romantic sensitivity to the Lotus Flower, with canvases that poetically reflect his fascination with the floral realm, as he explores the fragility and intensity that humanity shares with the natural world.

 

YI ZHU's semi-abstract, figurative gem-like compositions are fantastical visions which integrate visual vocabularies of surrealism, figurative and abstraction, resulting in a surrealist fantasy universe, resonating with brilliantly hued transfigurations whose illusory figures dance on the edge of fantasy, revealing a powerful, expressive vision.