Stir it up! To battle the intolerable summer heat that drives people away from the city to exotic summer resorts, State-of-the-Arts Gallery is delighted to present our refreshing summer group exhibition, featuring 10 of our gallery’s favorite artists from all over the world. Artists featured in this exhibition are Carmen Gloria Machuca, Christian Hofmann, Cristina Blanch, Erin de Burca, Frankie Cihi, Ghasan Saaid, Gina Intveen, Isabel Garfias, Paul Lemmon and Paulina Beyer. The exhibition will run from 1st to 18th August 2012.

It has come to the time when people are reluctant to even go outdoors, let alone walking in the heat to search for art treasure. So State-of-the-Arts Gallery would like to offer our friends an all-in-one art experience and a treasure hunt from our Gallery’s collection. The pieces selected for this ‘Summer Stir’ exhibition are bright in colors, light in content, cheerful in communication and reasonable in price. It would be a wonderful opportunity to freshen up your flat with some new and colorful art, as well as choosing presents to cheer your beloved friends and families up.

A diverse selection, the exhibition has Carmen Gloria Machuca, Frankie Cihi, Ghasan Saaid and Isabel Garfias offering their abstract paintings in orange and green. Machuca’s paintings with strong strokes and colors express her observation on the exterior space that we do not notice in daily life; Cihi’s paintings deliver her hope in uniting the world and promoting togetherness in the world to restore peace; Saaid’s work captures the daily moments of life and rewrites those life stories on a canvas; Garfias translates the spice and taste of Mexican food into colors and shapes.

For figurative art, we have Cristina Blanch and Erin de Burca who realistically convey the loneliness if city life, while Paulina Beyer paints her beloved hometown – Chile – with a hint of cubism. Christian Hofmann’s hyperrealist paintings create the illusion of a 3D canvas; Paul Lemmon from London vividly captures the liveliness and movement in British bars and the nostalgic images of antique cars. Last but not least, there’s Gina Intveen who skillfully portrays the dual characters of female – the feminine soft side, as well as the strength within them.