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Art Exhibition 'WIDMAN
OVERTURE'
40
original oil paintings by the Buffalo artist Bradley
Widman.
The first one-man exhibition of the
works of Bradley
Widman.
Bradley Widman is a self taught painter
living in Amherst, New York. He paints full-time, exclusively with
oil on canvas. His works typically utilize a pallet limited to earth
tones of green, red, mustard and brown. He produces two to three
canvasses per month and includes framing of his own construction in
each painting. A disciplined and monastic lifestyle is manifest
through his work. Figures, some of human form representing infants
through adult age predominate, and in some cases take on a
distinctive, specific form such as anthropomorphic deer, birds, or
monks in over-sized robes. Nudes, of both sexes, are shown in
organically geometric and ornamental adornment.
The overall effect conveying
spiritually and psychologically charged allegory. The structure of
his completed works provide an architecture which serves as a habitat
within which the figures can play out roles. Given this scheme, the
viewer is brought to an esoteric territory that lies beyond a normal
mode of perception, and into which we might ultimately be drawn by
Widman's overtures. This is part of his intent anyway, to give
us, the viewers, an opportunity to "visit" a different
consciousness.
MUSEUM OF
EUROPEAN ART
10545
Main Street, Clarence, New York 14031
The
exhibition runs from September 12 to October 31,
2015.
The
opening of the exhibition with the artist is on Saturday, September
12, 2015 from 1 to 5 p.m.
Open:
Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm.
Reservations
24 hrs in advance are recommended,
by phone at 759-6078 or e-mail at zavrel@meaus.com
Admission
is free.
Copyright 2015
Prometheus
PROMETHEUS,
Internet Bulletin for Art, News, Politics and Science, Nr. 216,
August 2015