Mara Held

Gary Snyder Gallery is pleased to announce Mara Held, an exhibition of paintings at 529 West 20th Street. Opening on January 24, 2013, the exhibition is Held’s first in a New York gallery in over a decade. Nineteen of the artist’s delicately painted, intricately detailed works will be on view, all created during the past five years.

In her paintings, Held uses dense, opaque colors and freehand drawing to create a variety of dramatic surface effects. In works such as Hiroshige I (2009) and Ogee (2012), calligraphic lines and concentric, ribbon-like forms vibrate across the works’ surfaces. Held’s use of egg tempera lends her paintings an aura of timelessness.

Gary Snyder Gallery is pleased to represent Mara Held.