2009-04-17 08:31:42 - The Agora Gallery (530 West 25th Street, Chelsea, New York, NY, 10001) is proud to present Shelley Vouga in Altered States of Reality. Scheduled to run from April 14th through May 5th, the collection will feature a captivating selection of Shelley Vouga’s digital images.

The photographs of artist Shelley Vouga, will be on view at Agora Gallery, in Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Fine Art Photography. (Opening Reception Thursday April 16, from 6 to 8m PM.)

About Shelley Vouga:

As a child Shelley Vouga would spend her free afternoons admiring the paintings and sculptures housed in the museums of her native

Switzerland, finding herself drawn more to the pure abstractions of shape and color than more literal representationalist works. Later she found a similar appeal in the designs she encountered working in a jeweler's shop. It is no surprise, then, that Shelley felt herself blooming in her own artistic life when she was exposed to the possibilities inherent in digital art. Here she combines the geometric angles of gemology with iterations accessible by computer to create realms within which the viewer is immersed. Shelley's expressionistic representation of her inner world often takes shape as expanses of sheet metal or filigree with washes of dramatic, solid color floating in the blackness of the void.

"My screen is my painting," she states, "where I weave my feelings, my enjoyments, and my fears." Shelley Vouga's imagery of self allows us to come into contact with one woman's idealistic reality.


About Altered States of Reality:

Altered States of Reality provides a glimpse of the world as captured through the lens of a camera, technology, and through the artists own inner vision. The gifted artist’s participating in Altered States of Reality offer us a perception of the world, as seen, through a complex, enigmatic fusion of emotions and technical mastery. The old boundaries have come tumbling down and the new reality has been altered and is forever changing. This exciting exhibition allows us to challenge our ideas, parables and perceptions that constitute our own reality.

Featured Artists: David Agee, Cariappa Annaiah, Apolo Anton Arauz, Marisa Atha, Montserrat Benito Segura, Flemming Hoff, Marilyn Holland, Malka Inbal, Matty Karp, Alain Lacki, Massimiliano Lattanzi, LEFT, Camila Manero, Mary Mansey, Angelina McCormick, Mari Minegishi, Allen Palmer, Beth Parin, Clint Saunders, Sylvia Schwenk, James Spitznagel, Radostina Valchanova, Shelley Vouga, Stefanie Young, Byra Zimmerman.

About Agora Gallery:

Agora Gallery is a fine art gallery located in the heart of New York City’s Chelsea art district that was established in 1984 and is famous for showcasing a spectacular array of talented artists from around the world and around the corner, while providing quality and original art to collectors. The gallery also publishes ARTisSpectrum Magazine, a bi-annual magazine that is distributed to museums, galleries, cultural and art institutions and societies and art schools around the world. It provides artists, collectors, museums, galleries, art organizations and enthusiasts with access to the work of hundreds of internationally talented emerging and mid-level artists as well as feature articles, reviews and interviews and is the sponsor of Art-Mine.com, one of the most comprehensive resources available worldwide to view and purchase fine art from emerging, mid-level and well-established artists.