HOWARD BUCHWALD March 9 - April 3, 2001	Howard Buchwald, FUNNEL, acrylic on canvas, 34 x 40 inches, 2000
Howard Buchwald, AVERTED VISION, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, 1999	Howard Buchwald's new paintings have a visual density that grows out of his last exhibition where curvilinear lines took over the rhythmic field of his paintings and functioned as a unit of color. The artist paints a range of thick arabesque lines and squiggles in more languorous rhythms than the earlier works, one cannot help but think of music with its compositional notes and passages.
And, in fact, rhythm is now more important than ever to the artist. He builds color areas, not solids or shapes, but passages where the eye stops and pauses and travels onward. Buchwald's is a global geography that allows the eye an exciting journey through the painting as it changes in intensity in its ebbs and flows of palette and juxtaposition.	Howard Buchwald, THE EYE FOLLOWS SLOWLY, acrylic on board, 18 x 24 inches, 1998
Howard Buchwald, SHORT FALL, acrylic on board, 18 x 24 inches, 1998	"Change" is a key word for the artist, islands of interlacing color which twist and turn around each other must be, as he says "resolved locally as well as globally." He prefers to have no general "mark making or generalized effect, everything has to be looked at and felt...creating a high energy construct," Buchwald says in a letter to a friend. If one word were used to describe these paintings it would have to be energetic.
Howard Buchwald, STICK/SHIFT, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 36 inches, 1998
The artist landed on the idea of tondos for this exhibition as the rectangles necessitated a more formulaic solution to the lines meeting the edge of the canvas. In a tondo nothing is repeated. The congruency of drawing and format is harmonious. Areas come in and out of focus as the eye travels around the painting. Like pointillism colors interact creating new colors and separate, a visual patterning that is always fresh. One would little think that some of the artist's inspiration for color and mark making derives from Indian miniatures, Tibetan painting and medieval English and Irish miniatures.
Howard Buchwald, BANDY, acrylic on linen, 42 inches diameter, 2000	Howard Buchwald, POND, TIME, RAIN, acrylic on linen, 40 inches diameter, 2000
"Willfulness and discipline" in decision making and "editing" to make a "big yet simple" painting are goals, says Buchwald. There is no square inch of the painting that is not considered with equal attention and energy, yet the totality feels spontaneous and organic, not studied and stiff. The lines, squiggles, arabesques keep the eye dancing, engaged, interested and active. Buchwald successfully sets up a circular dialogue that works.	Howard Buchwald, MID-POINTS AND PERIPHERALS, acrylic on board, 45 x 40 inches, 2000
Howard Buchwald was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1943. He received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union in 1964 and an M.A. from Hunter College in 1972. He was awarded the Elizabeth Foundation Grant; Pollock-Krasner Grant; Guggenheim Fellowship; CAPS (Creative Artists Program Services); and twice awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.	Howard Buchwald, SEEING FAINT STARS, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 55 inches, 1999
The artist's work has been shown at The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock; The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey; Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts; The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, New York; Hunter College, New York; Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.	Howard Buchwald, SMOKE AND LACE, acrylic on board, 40 x 55 inches, 1999
Howard Buchwald, STENCIL/TEMPLATE, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 50 inches, 2000	His work is included in the collections of William Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs;The Butler Institute of American Art; Gulbenkian Foundation; Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts; Miami-Dade Community College Art Gallery, Florida; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Howard Buchwald resides in New York City. Link to Howard Buchwald's Artist Page Read Howard Buchwald's Biography
Howard Buchwald, NO LONGER THERE, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 90 inches, 2000