For Immediate Release May 20, 2022
GARNER Arts Center is pleased to present Echos of a World Gone… , a Survey of Richard Bedkowski’s artwork from the period 2004-2022. This exhibition includes some of the artist’s pencil drawings, pen and ink, and oil paintings. This survey includes iconic work from The Blue Paintings, The Red Paintings and The White Paintings series. Feast your eyes on the master’s talent in all media.
Rick is daring to do something different; attaching himself to new ideas and trying to get to another place. Where is it? What is it? Extremely strange and beautiful. Based on illusionary practices; nothing real; nothing hard or objective—it’s all subjective. Sincere expressions of his state of mind.
You’ve got to enjoy the humor and think about it at the same time. Ethereal, ephemeral yet concrete—the geometric structure—the calibration is amazing yet he’s moving into the illusionistic woo-woo.
Dreams of Picasso, the quality of the painting and the color and the form. The colors are unusual, he has a very good command chromatically, their qualities are quite beautiful. The particular way of putting colors together is unique. Mysterious and strange. Concrete dream states. Fictitious characters and places or is it?
If there was ever an imagined scenario this is it. Kind of like German Expressionism. Some of the artwork is humorous because it’s so unexpected.
Each has a coherent intellectual statement but it’s also emotional. It brings up the mind/body question.
He’s creating in a very refined and humorous manner. This is just paint and space. Where are we looking? The surface is dematerializing. The shapes are unknowns. Something mysteriously floating around space. He’s taken painting to a whole other imagined place.
Rick has a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, 2004.
Instagram: @richardbedkowski
For images, further information and Private Viewings please contact Curator: Jonathan Shorr at 646-821-7095 or jsgalleryinfo@gmail.com
