Nicolas Auvray Gallery
522 West 23rd Street
New York 10011 NEW YORK
United States
Email : [email protected]
About
Nicolas Auvray Gallery has evolved rapidly to feature an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary art forms, including paintings, sculptures, photography, mixed media, and installations, creating a visual tapestry that reflects the richness and complexity of the human experience.
After a successful corporate life as an executive and whilst developing a recognized photographic body of work, Nicolas Auvray wanted to showcase other talents he was crossing paths with. From there emerged a network of artists that formed the core of the gallery and continues to grow and evolve.
From emerging talents to established names, visitors can expect to encounter a spectrum of styles, themes, and techniques that will captivate their senses and provoke thought. Core themes that the gallery has developed thus far revolve around the relationship to Nature and Elements, developing a strong base of abstract art, and work looking at the human body and form.
The gallery endeavors to find young or developing talents and enable them to develop their language through gallery exhibitions and art fairs. For instance the gallery proposes Clement Denis, Marie-Chloe Duval, or Gerard Stricher in the USA. The gallery is also proud to represent established masters such as Anne Manoli, Marco Cingolani, Francois Weil, Peter Cassagrande, Eric Ceccarini or Jehsong Baak. In the last years the Gallery has also extensively partnered with European artists to showcase their work in the USA. In parallel, the gallery is committed to representing artists from various cultural, ethnic, and social backgrounds, providing them with a platform to showcase their work and connect with a wider audience and broadening the gallery’s artistic resonance.
Gerard Stricher La Mer
Anne Valverde Tenohira
2024
Oil on canvas
63 x 63 in. (160 x 160 cm)
Born into a family of artists in Sarrebourg, Moselle, in 1948, Gérard Stricher began painting in the 1970s, when he was still an engineering student in Paris. He moved in art circles and found buyers and encouragement for his work, but his interest in the industrial field shifted his path to an international career in management. He became a "world citizen," absorbing landscapes and cultures from all corners of the globe, an influence that would later be reflected in his work.
He led a hugely successful executive career until he eventually moved back to painting in 2003. Stricher is adamant that his career and its world travel opportunities have shaped his art uniquely, allowing him to view many different cultures and artistic trends beyond that he was raised with, which greatly widened his scope of style.
In 2004 he bought an old mill in the Vexin region of northwestern France, where he set up his studio and began working intensely: this was a new adventure centered totally on his painting. Influenced by the nature surrounding
him, Stricher’s work focuses on abstract explorations of color. Conscious of the land surrounding his workspace, Stricher describes le Vexin as “offering a unique quality of light and diversity of landscapes.”
Though many would describe his work as abstraction, Gérard Stricher himself believes there is no such thing. Each painting created is a work of a living being who is present in nature; the work reflected onto the canvas is therefore influenced by the artist’s own unconscious impulses. Much of Stricher’s work can be rooted to his prolonged intrest in the School of Cobra Painters: Appel, Lindström, Jorn, etc. Pushing his research in this direction has led him to
discover the true power of pure color and material. However, little planning is done in preparation for his paintings, they rely on his spontanious emotions and instinctual color parings.
“My gestures in the act of painting do not follow the inputs of the brain, often my hand makes gestures that rationality does not command, it is the great mystery, the journey into the unknown...”
2025
Printed Kozo paper
Edition 1 of 7 + 2 AP
51 x 51 in. (130 x 130 cm framed)
Anne Valverde is a French artist, born in 1968, who lives and works in Paris. After studying in a management college, Anne Valverde dedicated herself to photography.
Fascinated by urban spaces, she paints the details of her photographs taken in black and white. The goal of the artist is to create some sort of "windows with views" with her pictures, on cities, like a platform for the imagination. In fact, she focus in some of the world's biggest cities; New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, London, for her collections, that give great importance to the graphics and architectural symbols of the cities.
Once the process of digitalization is completed, she develops the impressions on silver paper. Her work is influenced by great artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, who she admires a lot, and her trips and architectural graphics are her main sources of inspiration.
Exhibiting Artists