The Art Guide's Featured june 2008 Artist :: Felix Bronner

Email: art@felixbronner.com
Web: www.felixbronner.com

I was educated as a scientist and began painting some thirty years ago. By attending adult education classes and workshops, and studying privately with accomplished artists, I felt confident enough in my newfound language to submit work for show. I have exhibited in juried exhibitions, have won prizes, and have had one-person shows. My work is in private collections throughout the world.

One reviewer has characterized my work as “in a controlled but playful style, not unlike Chagall’s two distinctive abstract works.” Another speaks of Bronner’s abstractions as “complex in their compositions, but never visually overwhelming,” “charged with beautifully orchestrated colors,” “stunning and gentle.”

At another exhibition the reviewer speaks of “shades of beige and green that are so gorgeously exotic, they could only come from a lucid imagination.”

A 2003 review in ARTnews speaks of my works as a “studied homage to the Abstract Expressionists, evoking Adolph Gottlieb, William Baziotes, and Mark Rothko in particular….Bronner layers transparent shapes over expanses of softened colors, with the occasional opaque geometric forms dominating the canvas…”

Always interested in the three-dimensionality of collages, I have developed a series of abstract collages whose images are often in contrast with my more minimalist paintings.

-Felix Bronner

Artist's Statement:

In my painting, I wish to appeal to humankind’s positive potential to capture the complexity of nature, as reflected in the interplay of shape and color, to respond to the mystery that surrounds us, on the large scale in which we move, on the microscale that underlies all matter. In striving to reflect the shapes and colors of the world, I hope to emulate the many painters whose vision has been the essence of seeing.

UPCOMING SHOWS:

University of Connecticut at Groton,CT,
Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery
June 13 - July 27, 2008.
Opening Reception: Friday, June 13, 6-8pm.

Mandell Jewish Community Center
33 Bloomfield Ave., West Hartford
June 25 - August 17, 2008.
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26, 4 - 7 pm

Shown here:

496 “order – an equilibrium Oil on Canvas 48 x 48 2001
from within” (after Ortega y Gasset)

903 “on the dangerous edge Multimedia Collage 13-1/8 x 11 2006 NFS
of things” (Browning) on Paperboard

1003 “…now fades the Oil on Canvas 30 x 30 2008
glimmering landscape”
(Thomas Gray)