BOSTON ARTIST WILDA GERIDEAU-SQUIRES AT AGORA GALLERY IN NEW YORK

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(Free-Press-Release.com) April 7, 2010 -- From April 16 to May 7, 2010, the Agora Gallery, New York, will feature fine art photographer, Wilda Gerideau-Squires, in Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Photography. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, April 22, 2010 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm.

Wilda Gerideau-Squires’ extreme close-up abstract photography pares the medium down to its most elegant, elemental expression: light on surfaces. By manipulating those surfaces – folds of rich fabric, layers of sheer textiles, hard-edged glass forms – she creates endlessly inventive and unpredictable images sporting bright colors and exquisite textures. Some resemble vast, magical landscapes with golden sunlight spilling over a mountainous area. Others recall anatomy studies: soft, pleated textures evoke bent and coiled bodies. Gerideau-Squires favors ambiguity, though, so each image remains rooted in abstraction by formal qualities of depth, light, texture and focus.

As the play of lines and shapes gives way to a hierarchy of luminosity and color, her photographs take on a dazzling array of hues and intensities. In places one tone (whether strong or soft) dominates, elsewhere, Gerideau-Squires unleashes a kaleidoscope of hues, either running fluidly into a rainbow or speckled throughout the composition. From soft minimalism to brash symphonies of light, she makes the medium of photography a bewitching subject.

The dramatic balance of forms and shapes which she uncovers conjures a wide range of moods in us; her work is an intense combination of control and focus as well as the spontaneity which breathes life into abstraction. By her skills, sensitivity and finely honed craft, Wilda Gerideau-Squires is able to bring out images that are haunting, luminous, and enigmatic.
Wilda Gerideau-Squires lives and works in the Boston area.

Exhibition Dates: April 16, 2010 – May 07, 2010
Reception: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11a.m. - 6 p.m.
Event URL: www.agora-gallery.com/artistpage/wilda_gerideau__squires.aspx

Consumed with exploring our world as they uniquely see it, the artists in Agora Gallery’s “Altered States of Reality: an Exhibition of Analog and Digital Photography” use a myriad of visual vocabularies and technologies. Differing in method, these artists share in the passionate quest to articulate the moments often ignored in everyday life. Influenced by Surrealism and Abstractionism alike, these artists boldly investigate their psyches and natural surroundings. The results, at once harmonious, perplexing and alluring, take us on an inspirational visual journey.