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''Clear, strong, prayerful work, with joy at its centre.'' “…a visionary painter…” “Whelan’s art rescues the rich treasury of Catholic iconography from the fog of syncretist, solipsistic thinking.” “He goes to dark, grim places, places that in the modern world we like to pretend don’t exist and when he gets there he cracks jokes. This work is the work of the medieval jester.” “his work is bold and commanding.” “Looking at a Whelan painting is like looking at a stained glass window, through the eyes of Bart Simpson.” “Brian Whelan gives us post modern’s permission to seek again the Holy City and to realize that it is nothing like that which we have seen, nor is it the undiscovered country of Hamlet’s dread.” “The best way I could describe Brian would be to call him the rock & roll painter.” You are invited to
August 20 – October 6, 2010
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