AFFORDABLE ART FAIR BOSTON - FALL
October 23-26, 2025
Booth D4 | SoWa Power Station
Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
Agora Gallery
Agora Gallery was established by the late Miki Stiles, MFA, to provide opportunities to artists entering the global art market. Ms. Stiles was a visionary who founded the gallery on the principle that all artists benefit from having their artwork promoted by a professional gallery. Located in the heart of the famous Chelsea art district, Agora Gallery occupies the ground floor of 530 West 25th Street. The gallery is frequented by art lovers looking to find and buy original artwork.
From the Director
Dear Art Collectors,
My name is Sabrina Gilbertson and I am the Director of Agora Gallery. We offer a diverse range of original contemporary art from around the world in a variety of styles and price points, providing collectors, decorators, and designers the opportunity to purchase or lease a curated collection of art pieces. We also welcome practicing artists worldwide to inquire about our representation and
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We look forward to working with you!
Sabrina Gilbertson Director
Artwork:
Lilies by Mark Schiff
Featured Artists
William Atkinson
Julie Rami
Antonio Galvan Garese
Alli Gerrish
Holly Grosvenor
Evan William Plunkett
Mark Schiff
William Atkinson
Contemporary artist William Atkinson has been active in the art world for over a decade. Atkinson’s work first took the form of street art in Los Angeles, where he worked under the pseudonym ‘Insurgency Inc.’ As his artwork migrated into the gallery setting, the artist began labeling the paintings with his given name, William Atkinson. While the artist continues to utilize elements from street art, such as symbolism and familiar imagery in artworks, his current work focuses predominantly on personal expression rather than an anonymous cultural critique.
Atkinson’s multi-media works combine imagery from his day-to-day life with imagery from pop culture and street art, which are assembled into collaged pieces. Atkinson applies dynamic brush strokes and lines in a gestural mode to contrast the graphic imagery and leaves his makings exposed and unedited. The lack of shading, and inclusion of negative space allows for a focus on both form and symbolism. The diverse range of materials, source imagery, and the artist’s re-contextualization of figures and text prompt all viewers to consider new paths and perspectives of critical thought.
Exchange Everything 2, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
36” x 24”
Exchange Everything 1, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
36” x 24”
Julie Rami
Born in France and educated at Ecole Boulle, Julie Rami’s artistic journey has been shaped by personal experiences and a deep connection to the world of games. Her background working for a board game company infuses her artwork with a distinct sense of playfulness and a desire to break free from societal norms.
Her distinctive “Bokeh” technique in oil paintings is attracting attention and has a dreamlike quality. With influences ranging from Charlie Chaplin to Pop Art, Rami’s work transports viewers into a world where imagination and emotion take center stage.
She captures the essence of human emotion and the imagination of the body, breaking free from conventional boundaries. Rami’s desire is for visitors to her exhibitions to experience a surge of oxygen, enveloped in a sweet-scented atmosphere that elicits a range of emotions.
Bubble Jacket, 2025
Mixed media on wood
28” x 40”
Dino Cube, 2025
Oil painting on canvas with frame 32” x 32”
Puffy Jacket, 2025 Oil on wood
16” x 16”
Lecture au soleil, 2025
Oil painting on canvas with frame 24” x 24”
Pupitre Jaune, 2025
Oil painting on canvas with frame 24” x 24”
Queen 01
Mixed media on wood
8” x 6”
Queen 02
Mixed media on wood
8” x 6”
Queen 03
Mixed media on wood
8” x 6”
Spring Boxer, 2025 Resin
10.5” x 6” x 3.5”
Young Boxer (Red), 2023 Resin
12” x 6” x 3.5”
Antonio Galvan
Antonio Galvan is an artist influenced by abstract art and surrealism, using creative expression to explore emotions, symbolism, and introspective themes.
Based in Ramsey, New Jersey, he creates paintings and sculptures using materials such as bronze, aluminum, glass, ceramics, wood, and resin, blending strength and delicacy in his work.
His creative process is deeply connected—his sculptures inspire his paintings, and his paintings influence his sculptures. Each piece reflects his experimentation and evolves naturally as he works.
Galvan’s journey into art began at the age of 19 when he moved to New York City and started working as an art assistant, despite having no prior experience in the field. This challenge sparked a passion for art that has shaped his career and driven his ongoing exploration.
His work draws from European and Latin American contemporary influences, blending cultural symbols and social themes into a unique visual style that resonates across borders.
Galvan showcased his work at Art Basel in 2019 and has continued to expand his audience and influence. His art explores themes of identity, transformation, and the relationship between materials and emotions, creating pieces that are both impactful and thought-provoking.
Portrait with Hat on White Background, 2024 Oil, acrylic, resin and metal on wood
37” x 29”
Background,
Woman on Red
2024 Oil, acrylic, resin and metal on wood 37” x 29”
Woman in Bronze with Blue Glass, 2024 Bronze and glass 11” x 8” x 6”
Woman in Red, 2024
Bronze and resin
12” x 8” x 6”
Garese
French painter Garese is a traditionally trained artist with an impressive background and education in the fine arts. She studied at Les Beaux-arts de Bordeaux, then at ICART in Paris. She trained in both the traditional and decorative arts, which gives her the unique ability to draw in techniques from both disciplines. The combination of these two different approaches to art can be seen in her elegant handling of light and color to model the subjects of her paintings. Her work is a coherent thread between the world of today and the previous world, and could most aptly be described as “timeless.”
Working exclusively in oil on linen, Garese creates paintings featuring portraiture, landscapes, and still-life work. She sources inspiration from the Old Masters, and specifically the artists John Singer Sargent, Henri Fantin-Latour, Joaquin Sorolla, and Gustav Klimt, as well as American Cinema from the 1950’s and 1960’s. She employs painting techniques from historical traditions among the decorative arts, including trompe l’oeil and other decorative techniques. She skillfully juxtaposes these historical techniques with abstract elements, resulting in visually captivating and uniquely contemporary pieces. In doing this, she endeavors to bring new eyes to discover novel aspects of art and the world, which are too often forgotten among contemporary works today. Her portraits are archetypal, the light is delicate, and the costumes are very detailed. In the same vein, her still lifes and landscapes capture a serenity that is intended to contrast the fast paced, overcrowded world of today.
Reflection #4, 2024
Oil on canvas
23.5” x 36.5”
Transparency #2, 2023
Oil on canvas
23.5” x 23.5”
Reflection #3, 2024
Oil on canvas
19.5” x 19.5”
Woman Profile #5, 2024
Oil on canvas
23.5” x 23.5”
Alli Gerrish
Alli Gerrish is a multimedia artist based in Boulder, Colorado. Over the past two decades, Gerrish’s extensive body of work has spanned painting, digital painting, prints, video, and narrative voiceover. Drawing inspiration from modern masters such as Elaine DeKooning and Cy Twombly, as well as contemporary icons like Amy Sillman and Terry Winters, Gerrish’s art articulates the multifaceted process of metamorphosis and transformation. Her work serves as a dynamic journal, translating energy and encoding iconography into abstract compositions of what Gerrish terms ‘artimation.’ Utilizing simple geometric shapes, soft patterns, and delicate tones, her work evokes a sense of relaxation and comfort. Stripes, circles, and ellipses gently connect and intertwine, creating a serene visual experience. A recurring motif in her paintings is the hourglass shape, symbolizing the artist herself. This decidedly feminine form represents the transformation of personal and societal vulnerabilities into visions of a brighter future dominated by joy and positivity. Gerrish’s unique creative process combines personal narrative with visual storytelling, showcasing the ongoing evolution of her artistic expression.
Artwork Name, Year Medium text
Artwork Name, Year Medium text
Dealer’s Choice, 2024
Acrylic on board
24” x 18”
Passing Through, 2024
Acrylic on board
24” x 18”
The Point is Already Made, 2024 Acrylic on board 24” x 18”
The Point is Already Made, 2024 Acrylic on board 24” x 18”
Holly Grosvenor
Inspired by the hues and movement of light, artist Holly Grosvenor studies and captures the luminosity of her natural environments. Grosvenor creates her work both on-site and in the studio, as she selects and magnifies fragments of natural settings to translate in oil and acrylics on her canvases. Her work is a response to her personal experiences in the natural realm, as she creates multiple plein air observation sketches in watercolor on site, as well as detailed photographs of the space, and returns to her studio to recreate these environments in oils and more recently, acrylics. Acrylics as a medium allowed Grosvenor to delve more deeply into the behavior of reflection and translucency on water and reflective surfaces, as it granted her more time to develop each painting and emphasize the details of the natural phenomena.
One of the most captivating elements in Grosvenor’s paintings is the sense of space and dimensionality she is able to create within the frame of her canvas. The special quality in her compositions invites her audiences to enter the painting and engage with her narrative and with the environment. Grosvenor’s special awareness could be influenced by her training in as an architect. “I attempt to capture the casual observation; to hold a passing moment of uncelebrated beauty in reflected light and changing color. I find profound pleasure in sketching on site surrounded by the rich colors of the natural environment.
Grosvenor has a B.A. in Environmental Design from Brown University and an M.A. in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She won Best in Show in the 2021 Water Media Spring Juried Show from the Oregon Society of Artists and first place in the Portland Rose Festival Art Show. Her exhibitions include Aqua Art Miami (Miami, FL), the Providence Art Club (Providence, RI), the Oregon Society of Artists (Portland, OR), the Portland Rose Festival (Portland, OR), and the Spring Bull Gallery (Newport, RI). She has been a practicing architect for forty years. Now retired from the profession, she lives and paints in western Massachusetts.
Riverside, 2013 Oil on canvas
24” x 20”
Sidewalk, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
30” x 20”
Chair, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
12” x 12”
Coy-Koi, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
20” x 20”
Shallow, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
20” x 30”
Winter Sun, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
30” x 24”
Evan William Plunkett
Ghostly figures drifting along a sidewalk, empty corridors, quiet roads, and faded Americana— Evan William Plunkett’s photographs transform these ordinary or abandoned spaces into scenes that feel suspended in time.
Defined by a cinematic, dreamlike aesthetic, his work blurs the boundaries between memory, reality, and imagination. Working with long exposures, light, and intentional camera movement, Plunkett has developed a distinctive style he calls photo impressionism, capturing the atmosphere of a place rather than its literal form.
Influenced by film and storytelling, he creates visual narratives that evoke presence and absence, illustrating what he describes as “the fluidity and essence of the perpetual movement of time.”
Based in Putney, Vermont, Plunkett grew up in New Jersey, Connecticut, Texas, and Massachusetts, and studied Political Science at the University of Miami. His work has been featured in juried exhibitions, publications, and on the cover of SHOTS magazine and is held in numerous private collections.
He has published three monographs: Statements in Passing (2017), Landscapes (2019), and First Impressions (2023).
Alongside his artistic practice, Plunkett is a social justice and environmental advocate, serving on the board of the Doris Wilderness Foundation, Inc., an NGO dedicated to preserving and rewilding critical ecosystems.
Abandon, 2024
Dye-Sublimation on ChromaLuxe aluminum panels with tuxedo mount
x 24”
36”
Pace, 2024
Dye-Sublimation on ChromaLuxe aluminum panels with tuxedo mount
36” x 24”
Swath, 2024
Dye-Sublimation on ChromaLuxe aluminum panels with tuxedo mount
x 24”
36”
Wait, 2024
Dye-Sublimation on ChromaLuxe aluminum panels with tuxedo mount
36” x 24”
Mark Schiff
Journeying around the world has ignited artist Mark Schiff’s creativity, which he reveals through his watercolor, acrylic, and oil compositions. “Traveling reminds me that I am part of a vast universe filled with extraordinary places and interesting people,” he says. “The adventure of travel gives me an expansive sense of freedom that often becomes the inspiration for many of my paintings.” His travels have taken him to diverse locations, and he explains that each journey heightens his capacity to embrace a wide spectrum of emotions that serve his creative process.
Heavily influenced by his interest in culture, music, and yoga, Schiff’s ability to be guided by intuition opens him to what he refers to as, “the ocean of creativity within.” It is from this place that he paints with bold, deliberate strokes creating eye-catching paintings that sizzle with energy and command the viewers’ attention.
Above all, Mark Schiff is a believer in the solidarity of humanity. After hearing his father’s experiences during WWII, Schiff was moved by the plight of war, its effect on people, and man’s inhumanity to man. “These stories inspired me to paint as a way to simply bring more beauty into our troubled world.”
Lausanne Lilies, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
60” x 48”
Rhone River Lilies, 2025
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas
60” x 48”
Antibes Lilies, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
36” x 36”
Saanen Lilies, 2025
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas
60” x 48”
Rhone River Lilies, 2025
Acrylic & mixed media on canvas
60” x 48”
Gallery hopping in New York
Agora Gallery is located within the heart of the Chelsea Arts District with available hours from Tuesday – Saturday 11 am - 6 pm.
Opening receptions are held once a month, giving you the opportunity to meet the artists and view a variety of original artwork. Visit our website and subscribe to our mailing list to stay up to date on all events and happenings – www.Agora-Gallery.com/mailinglist
Chelsea, New York City
