Installation of exhibition at Madron Gallery. Image courtesy of Madron Gallery.

On View: March 4 - June 14, 2024
Artist Reception: Thursday April 4, 2024 5:30-8:30 PM (open to the public)

PRESS RELEASE

Exhibiting Artists: Andrew Arkell, Zach Balousek, Michael Banning, Shel Howard Beugen, Jess Beyler, Margie Criner, Matthew Cortez, Kara Cobb Johnson, Matt Kuhlman, Ruben Lima, MISU, Alison Mosher, Kristen Phipps, Joseph Royer, and Bruce Thorn


What is the relationship of art and science?

Installation view of System and Dialectics of Art (March 4 - June 14, 2024). Image courtesy of Madron Gallery.

Jess Beyler
Mapping the Infinite Sky, 2022
Collage on paper
27 x 35 inches (framed)

SOLD


William S. Schwartz (1896-1977), Symphonic Forms #5, ca. 1930-32, oil on canvas, 30 x 26 inches

The Fine Art of [William S. Schwartz] // 3.29.2024

Between 1930 and 1932, it’s hard to fathom what William S. Schwartz (1896-1977) was doing other than painting his Symphonic Forms, the series of musical abstractions he would eventually become best known for. In a fervent rush of inspiration over the course of those three years, he made somewhere between eighteen and twenty-three of the Symphonic paintings. Then, just as suddenly, he stopped, not picking them up again in earnest for nearly two decades, at which point they had changed dramatically.

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