For those interested it might be nice to join the opening; see invitation below.
Would be great to have you there
Maurice
Maurice
van
Tilburg
Divergent Realities
Agora
Gallery
New York,NY
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Divergent Realities
October 9 - October
29, 2015
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 15, 2015, 6-8 pm
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Road
to Relativity Oil on Canvas 39.5" x 31.5"
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About the Artist
Maurice van Tilburg’s paintings represent the journey towards deeper
expression by combining the concepts of beauty and pity. Van Tilburg’s canvases
brim with an alternating sense of hope and loss, with the contrast between them
illustrated through a bright palette contoured by a dark textural movement. In
that borderland between beauty and pity, the viewer glimpses the artist as an
intense creator/achiever and also as a reflective man, and the struggles they
both face in order to take what van Tilburg calls “full ownership of
life.”
Van Tilburg’s discovery of deeper beauty through awareness of its fragility
is portrayed by the radiant layers of oil paint and the omnipresent drip-like
lines that both compose and obscure the art around them. The Gothic sensibility
and impressionist references reinforce the overall sense of dislocation,
expectant anxiety and alluring intimacy. In this regard, van Tilburg both holds
the viewer at a distance and beckons them as close as they’re willing to
come.
Maurice van Tilburg Up-close
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