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Bowery Gallery is pleased to present recent work by Thaddeus Radell, whose darkly
luminous paintings evoke journeys through landscapes of the subconscious. From the
artist’s richly layered surfaces—broadly troweled in places, elsewhere delicately incised—
emerge visions of figures that appear and disappear within atmospheric depths. Bits of
embedded burlap suggest a ragged dimension beyond paint. The heavy impasto, set
against thinly brushed lines of saturated earth colors, creates living, breathing surfaces.
In my beginning is my end. So reads the opening line of “East Coker,” the second poem
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