Norwegian Artist Ellen Marlen Hamre in SoHo, New York

Award-winning Norwegian artist and web designer, Ellen Marlen Hamre brings her eye for color and geometric harmony to spirited works of playful abstraction and decorative delight. Emphasizing freshness and spontaneity over detail, Hamre clearly uses line, color, and motif as principal means of expression; but it is her sprightly characters that steal the show. Cartoonishly stylized and utterly original, topsy-turvy female figures cocooned in tube-like dresses spring from unexpected angles, peek coyly around corners, but more often than not assert themselves front and center as the life of the painting. Exuding optimism and palpable joy, fiery hues burst from their heads like wild crowns, sweep implausibly to the side, or lift impossibly skyward in total defiance of gravity. Characterized by these signature figures and rectilinear patterns which form the basic structure of her compositions, Hamre gives the impression that each painting is a fragment of a larger work, a continuing story. Working primarily in acrylic but also in watercolor, Hamre infuses basic forms with rhythm and personality, using bold color as well as vertical and horizontal lines to support, accent and frame these vibrant projections of her own enthusiasm.

Ellen Marlen Hamre's paintings will be on display in New York in Reveries, running from October 13 to November 2, 2006, at Agora Gallery, 415 West Broadway, SoHo, New York.

To view Hamre's paintings, please visit http://www.agora-gallery.com/ArtistInvite/Ell...

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Amanda Aaron
Public Relations Department
Agora Gallery
530 West 25th Street,
Chelsea, New York
www.Agora-Gallery.com