Bridgette Mayer Gallery announces its Fall exhibition of 2014: New Works: Charles Burwell will be on view from October 14 – November 19, 2014, with an opening reception Thursday, October 16, 2014, 6 – 8 p.m.
Bridgette Mayer Gallery is pleased to announce our fall exhibition featuring works by Philadelphia painter Charles Burwell. New Works: Charles Burwell will be on view from October 14 – November 19, 2014, with an opening reception on Thursday, October 16th, from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Burwell's new large paintings are in his characteristic style, where he achieves compositional balance through varying modes of geometric patterning and dynamic color relationships. Four of Charles Burwell’s paintings that will be featured were recently on view at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas in the exhibition Beauty Reigns: A Baroque Sensibility in Recent Paintings. The Bridgette Mayer Gallery will be exhibiting them before they go on view at the Akron Museum in Ohio in January.
Charles Burwell received his BFA from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia, PA) in 1977, and his MFA from Yale University School of Art (New Haven, CT) in 1979. He has participated in many exhibitions, including solo shows at Bridgette Mayer Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (Wilmington, DE), Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), the University of Delaware (Newark, DE), and Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA). He has taught at Tyler School of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI), and Dartmouth College. Burwell's work is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), the Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, DE), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA), and The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY), Temple University, Pearson-McGonigle Athletic Complex (Philadelphia, PA), Temple University, Fox School of Business (Philadelphia, PA), and was recently acquired by the Speed Art Museum (Louisville,KY). He has been the recipient of two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships, a United States Information Agency grant for Middle East travel, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, two Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Awards, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts.
Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 am- 6:00 pm & by appointment. For additional information please contact Bridgette Mayer at (p) 215-413-8893 (f) 215-413-2283