SEPTEMBER 26-NOVEMBER 30, 2026, GROUP PRESS RELEASE

CHELSEA ARTISTIC VISIONS

 

AMSTERDAM WHITNEY GALLERY, 210 Eleventh Avenue, Chelsea-New York City, is proud to showcase its''CHELSEA ARTISTIC VISIONS" SEPTEMBER 26-NOVEMBER 30, 2026, Exhibition featuring leading contemporary artists whose works explore the abstract, figurative and natural worlds. This Autumnal nexus of enchantment exhibition, highlighted by the “LA VIE MAGIQUE” Champagne Soirée on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26th, from 2:00-4:00, offers a mesmerizing elixir of the arts which will captivate the senses of both art acquisitors and art aficionados alike. Pulsating with a magical vortex, these spellbinding artists’ sophisticated, eclectic, and charismatic representations of life provide a visual syntax of our world. Their hypnotic canvases and spellbinding sculptures unearth spiritual emotions, synthesizing imaginative artistic visions and stimulate visceral sensations. 

 

NANCY BALMERT, known as the "Queen of Flowers" and "Ambassador to Nature" current "Alchemy of Light,” naturesacpe exhibit emblematizes radiant landscape and floral paintings extraordinarily embody the timeless connection between art and the natural world through luminous color, exquisite detail, and masterful technique, with oil canvases that transform the natural world into powerful expressions of beauty, vitality, and wonder, manifesting an aesthetic affirmation that art and nature are inseparable.  Incandescently reminding us that nature remains one of humanity's greatest sources of inspiration, "The Ambassador to Nature's" masterpieces offer moments of magic, serenity, and transcendence, inviting us to appreciate and reconnect with the rhythm of the natural world.

 

IVA BOGDANOVA'S visual perception features gestural color-fields with organic chromatic abstract expressionist compositions that envelope viewers with voluminous gem-colored forms through layered brushwork and textured application, unfolding dynamic relationships between color and movement, transparency and density, structure and spontaneity, shapes emerge and reappear, intermingling personal memory, emotion, and imagination.

 

BARBARA CHRISTOL'S clever "Little French Story" innovatively presents minimalist non-objective paintings that conceptualize iconic French words, each word symbolizing famous lexicons from the French language. Aligning her oeuvre within a visual lineage that merges abstraction with semiotics, where letters, forms, and colors operate as a visual language, she poetically transforms language into a charming, witty visual experience.

 

FREDI COHEN’S "Come Fly with Me” soaring bird-themed mixed media series optically suggests both a journey and cycle, symbolizing nature, femininity, fantasy, and the human longing for freedom. Conveying the possibility of renewal, encouraging us to release the constraints of gravity and discover the dreams, emotions, aspirations, and possibilities concealed beneath the surface.

 

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. 

 

MICHAEL GLEIZER'S "Boardwalk-Coney Island" colorful panorama series commemorates a resplendent pageantry of promenading fantastical figures, as he transports viewers to the timeless charm and vibrant spirit of New York's beloved Coney Island, reincarnating this destination as an enduring symbol of American nostalgia and new cultural journeys. 

 

JON KRAWCZYK'S polished steel and bronze sculptures masterfully transform his organic creations into works of extraordinary elegance, movement, and emotion, that explore a dialogue between weight and space, permanence and gesture, strength and sensitivity, revealing an unexpected beauty within the material, as he coaxes his medium into majestic forms that appear to move, breathe, reach, and evolve.

 

NERYS LEVY's environmentally themed art is evergreen and ever fabulous as she gracefully responds to the gift of nature by illustrating the beauty of our environment, which visually inspires us to treasure our ecosystem and to respectfully preserve its infinite intricacies, while recognizing the wonders that are hidden in the terrain. Awakening a spirit of guardianship of our imperiled planet, her aesthetic narrative urges her audience to honor our delicate planet.  

 

JIMMIE MARLER'S expressive, narrative portraits illuminate the invisible within the visible of his figurative subject matter, by portraying the human silhouette, which vibrantly conveys the essence of the soul of his subject with limitless emotions, while encapsulating the human experience, revealing the meaning of existence and the universality of humankind. 

 

SARA McKENZIE'S eye is turned to nature and her love of the land, with celestial abstract nature paintings that evocatively conjure the beauty of the terrain, defined in her own personal visual lexicon, transcribing inner and outer horizons onto canvas, as she recalibrates an aesthetic dialogue between the external world and the inner imagination.

                                        

KARINE EYAMIE, ''MizDragonfly" combines decades of jewelry expertise with digital technology, fashion, surrealism, and maximalist visual storytelling, entitling her female figurative work "Digital Haute Couture," highlighting femininity, beauty, and personal experience into an elegant aesthetic language, characterized by highly detailed surfaces, crystalline structures, surreal environments, vivid color, and dreamlike compositions

 

LORI MOLE'S musically themed paintings embrace the shared language of music and art, melodically translating the intangible qualities of music into a symphonic visual symphony of color, gesture, and emotion that celebrates the rhythm, emotion and movement of music with musical imagery that possesses its own cadence, tempo, and crescendos.

 

JOHN PETERS' "Kaleidoscopic Journey" series is a retrospective perspective on his chromatic magic realism floral and landscape paintings that expressionistically channel sensory experiences along with a profound connection to the environment by harvesting a cornucopia of nature's colors and sensations to uniquely transcribe the bounty of the terrestrial environment.

 

SADY PINEDA re-contextualizes expressionistic dioramas of nature which illustrate the fleeting and fragile beauty of the natural terrain, radiating a spiritual connection to the vital spirit of the landscape, as they resonate with nature's atmospheric richness.

 

KAREN PONELLI immortalizes the beauty of the floral realm transforming the rhythms of the natural world into layered visual experiences that exist somewhere between landscape, memory, and imagination.

 

ALAN REDDICK'S musically inspired paintings vibrate energy, emotion and the cultural mythology of music combining them into a compelling visual narrative, allowing rhythm to become movement, and performance to become memory, as he shines the artistic spotlight on jazz greats such Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillepsie.

 

MICHAEL SCHAFFER’S "Valley of the Nomads" series is a visual odyssey that masterfully illuminates that every canvas is a journey, as he recreates ancient Egyptian landscapes, manifesting the mystery of the ancient Egyptian civilization into a visible artistic journey. Allegorically navigating the spiritual power of the desert, he interlinks it to the enduring human desire to journey beyond the known. The contrast between the human presence and the vastness of the Egyptian valley reinforces the timeless Egyptian fascination with the relationship between humanity, nature, the gods, and eternity.

 

KATHY STANLEY'S female-centric oeuvre champions women as she explores women’s relationship to nature, celebrating "she-roes" on earth who radiate power, strength, and divinity, adroitly illustrating the feminine form as strong, resilient, and spiritual, while radiating the power of the organic universe. 

 

HowardArthur TWEEDIE’S luminescent Australian naturescapes translate the brilliantly hued beauty and harmony of Australia's landscape, which radiate the vibrant beauty of the land, encapsulating an intimate vision of the inner experience of nature that portray the balance between the earth and the sky, and the sun and moon.