The Esther M. Klein Art Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition NewYorkAbstract, featuring the works of contemporary New York-based artists exploring non-representational styles in painting. This exhibition surveys the works of emerging and established artists developing the latest tendencies in abstraction. The range of works in the exhibition goes from tonal poetry to tendencies that are close to fashion and design, including calligraphic and gestured works, experiments with poured paint, and collages. The artists featured in the exhibition are: Chris Blyth, Serena Bocchino, Michael Brennan, Julian Jackson, Melissa Meyer, Carolanna Parlato, Alexander Schuchard, Tim Steele, Leslie Wayne and Nola Zirin.

Artist Christ Blyth thinks of painting as a means to creating a history on a surface that mirrors the change and time that we observe in our daily lives. His paintings emerge as blend of contrasts between what looks planned and manmade versus what appears to fall into place intuitively as if sprung from nature.

Serena Bocchino's paintings elaborate on the idea of music. Sound and rhythm informs Ms. Bocchino's work, creating playful surfaces that operate simultaneously on emotional, physical and intellectual levels.

Michael Brennan is interested in the fusion of Zen Philosophy and new technologies, of the organic with the geometric. Drawn to paintings that have some kind of "unsettling aura", he considers himself a tonal poet. His subtle yet powerful monochrome paintings carry a sense of disruptive beauty.

Julian Jackson thinks of painting as a means of approaching, apprehending, and understanding the natural world. He is interested in making artwork that suggests physical experience.

Luminescence is the first impression that comes to mind when looking at Melissa Meyer's brushy and sensuous paintings. Her paintings unravel into ranges that go from broad planes of color to calligraphic strokes. Ms. Meyer presents chaos, order, spontaneity, and luminosity as ingredients to array endless possibilities on canvas.
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Carolanna Parlato's work is motivated by color. Her paintings are reminiscent of the bird's-eye viewpoint of topographical maps. However, her use of artificial colors creates an undercurrent addressing concepts of artifice and pop culture. The artist juxtaposes neutral or natural colors with synthetic, eye-popping ones, combining silly with serious, nonsense and sense.

Paying homage to one of the beloved artists from this century, Alex Schuchard's abstract works are reminiscent of Philip Guston's early "abstract impressionists" paintings. Mr. Schuchard textured use of color allows for images that resemble weavings of paint.

Artist Tim Steele works simultaneously on several wood panels for the composition of his images. By juxtaposing different planes of gestured calligraphic marks with quiet surfaces, the painter orchestrates a symphony of color and form that addresses the physicality of seeing.

Leslie Wayne breaks the surfaces of her work by cutting, scraping, digging and entering the body of the painting by pulling it inside out. The artist says: "My hope is to inspire an initial response which is visceral rather than intellectual, an intuitive sensation that relates to the way we feel in our skin".

Nola Zirin's work pays tribute to New York City's light and architecture. Scraped surfaces and vertical grids form the pattern, structure and subject of her paintings.

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