CURRENT EXHIBITION

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press release | WARNER FRIEDMAN | April 17 - May 16, 2010

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 17, 3-6 pm

An opening reception for the exhibit of 15 works will be held Saturday April 17 from 5 pm to 7 pm at the 7,000 square foot gallery.

Warner Friedman’s meticulously detailed natural scenes are easily identified because he frames them at the forefront by an architectural structure, such as a window, a door, a fence, a balcony. The sometimes-overlapping architectural forms in each work play with the light source and create beautifully defined shapes, which both contrast with, and complement the lush natural settings. Friedman’s paintings hang in noted museums throughout the country, such as the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum and in the notable corporate collections of Fidelity Investments, Texaco, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Born in 1935 and raised in New York City, Warner Friedman started his career as an engineer but was so drawn to painting that he enrolled in night classes at night at the Pratt Institute while working as an engineer by day. Gradually, the attraction to art took hold, and he went on to full-time studies at The Cooper Union, which remains the only full-scholarship college in the country dedicated solely to art, architecture and engineering.

As one art critic stated, “one doesn’t look at Warner Friedman’s paintings, one looks through them. At times, they can appear more like portals than paintings. At the core of Friedman’s work, space and form are cleverly fused with light and shadow in a way that so undermines our frame of reference that we are ultimately left to question how we see, what we see. It is this wry sense of playful curiosity executed with such impeccable craft that continues to keep Warner Friedman’s work fresh, relevant and engaging.”

For more information call the gallery at: 860.927.4501

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Hans Hofmann & George McNeil | Gary Komarin | Group Show 2009 | Chris Armstrong | Dennis Hartley | Hugh O'Donnell | Norman Sunshine | Cleve Gray 2009 | Cleve Gray 2008 | Carroll Macdonald | Mancini & Balsamo | Jonathan Perlowsky | Paul Suttman | Peter Woytuk | Sandra Filippucci | Wolf Kahn 2008 | Wolf Kahn 2009 | Group Show 2008 | Bob Lenz | Zimilies