Fri 4/12 @ 5:30-8PM
Painter Richard Andres (1927-2013) has been described as “the Cleveland School’s premier abstract expressionist.” The 1950 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, who was born in Buffalo and traveled around before permanently settling in Cleveland and teaching for almost three decades in the Cleveland Public Schools, staked abstract expressionism as his favored style, no matter what was trendy in cities such as New York, and won numerous prizes in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s former May Show. He exhibited extensively in northeast Ohio.
If you’re an art lover and unfamiliar with him, you have a chance to immerse yourself in his work when WOLFS gallery in Beachwood presents Andres 2.0: Selected Works 1975-1990. It follows a show the gallery did in 2022, featuring the first of two large groups of his work. Most of the work in the new show was done post 1975.
“Andres belongs to that special breed of painter that tumbled on to abstraction in the glory days of the New York School and never since wavered about what 20th century painting should be,” wrote former Plain Dealer art critic Helen Cullinan. “He’s one of the stalwarts who never gave in to trendy pop, op and minimalist movements or the return to the figure.”
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