FREEPORT – Freeport resident David Costello’s paintings are being exhibited at a prestigious New York City art gallery through Dec. 5.

The exhibit, “Unbound Perspectives,” is being hosted by Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th St., in Chelsea, an area known for its galleries. Agora Gallery is considered among New York’s best showing contemporary works.

Costello says on his website that he “creates extraordinary spaces filled with color and light, and replete with free-flowing forms, where natural landscapes and human elements merge and in some cases become one. Forms that are at once recognizable are transformed into something quite magical when configured in this whimsical, fanciful context. … Through his art he strives to reconfigure objects and elements so that they can be seen by the viewer as if for the first time: not only through all five of one’s senses, but also with the heart, to find the beauty both without and within.”

Costello took some time recently to talk to the Tri-Town Weekly about his art and his New York exhibit.

Q: How long have you lived in Freeport?

A: My wife, Jeanne, and I moved to Freeport from the Boston area in June of 2011.

Q: Your art truly is thought provoking. Where did you study, and how did your surrealism evolve?

A: My formal art studies began in the late 1960s at the San Francisco Art Institute and also at the Carmel Art Institute in Carmel, Calif., where I studied specifically on color under the late John Cunningham.

Q: What is your artistic objective?

A: I’ve been involved in the graphic and fine arts all my life, I’m now 65. I’ve had my own graphic design business in Lexington, Mass., and I also worked at The Lowell Sun, a daily newspaper in Lowell, as graphics editor. I’ve shown my fine art in galleries in Europe and the U.S.

Q: Is the Agora Gallery appearance any kind of a milestone for you?

A: This show in New York at Agora Gallery is actually the first time I’ve shown my work at a major gallery in a number of years. Until recently, my focus has been directed in receiving (inspiration) and doing the work, selling prints mainly through my website: davidcostello.com.

Q: How often and where do you make local appearances, and when would the next one be? How would one obtain one of your works?

A: I am beginning to show my work more since moving to Maine. I love how the whole region is art-focused, and there is a natural appreciation for the arts here. I am presently showing at The Chocolate Church Art Gallery in Bath, and I will also be part of a collective show at the Yarmouth Frame & Gallery starting Dec. 7. My work flows out of time spent in stillness and silence, drawing from both the natural and the spiritual. My passion is to give voice to what cannot be said in words – to make the invisible visible, and to awaken something within the spirit of the observer.

“My work flows out of time spent in stillness and silence, drawing from both the natural and the spiritual,” says Freeport artist David Costello, whose works are on display that the Agora Gallery in New York City.