The Gallery at the Marmara-Manhattan

Located in the lobby of The Marmara-Manhattan, this impressive gallery space is a highlight of both the property and the neighborhood. The light-filled room has become a forum for both established and up-and-coming artists from the local and international art scenes. The Marmara-Manhattan provides free public access to the gallery, open every day between 11am - 7 pm.

Charles & Pamela Christopher (Paintings), Tuba Inal (Sculpture) The Arcadian Odyssey Curated by Zishan Ugurlu Ph.D
June 9, 2005 - September 3, 2005
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 9, 2005 6:00 - 8:00

The Gallery at The Marmara-Manhattan is pleased to welcome the Turkish artist Tuba Inal and American artists Charles and Pamela Christopher in their first New York show.

Charles and Pamela Christopher have been working with floral subjects for the past decade, after earlier experimentation with fiber art, stained glass, metal sculpting , figure drawing, and photography. Charles has strong feelings for design and prefers large groupings of blossoms or leaves from which he abstracts a series of paintings. The sensuality of natural form also revealed by his images of female nudes. Charles is a permanent member of the Artists' Section of the St.Louis Artists' Guild, and has won the Eveleene Witham Annual Memorial prize and the Bader's Painting prize, among others.

Pamela takes a realistic approach, but seeks to recreate the beauty and emotion she feels for her subject. She experience and internalize her subject sorting out rhythms and colors through painting. Pamela has won several awards at the exhibitions for her watercolors, including the Grumbacher Silver Medallion Award, the Marguerite and Edmond Meyer Prize, and the People's Choice award.

Tuba Inal, as Kaya Ozsezgin says has come to a new stage that reflects herself due to her preference of white and venous black marble in his latest works. It is widely known that marble material that does not only reflect the light but also carry it at a transparent density level within itself allows it to bring a new solution to the relation between harmony and contrast by use of an organizing working discipline on the same sculpture form on the sanded surfaces and slightly rough interfaces. She has exhibiting 1983 in various museums and galleries throughout Turkey. She currently lives and works in Istanbul and Canakkale.