George Widener

George Widener is a self-taught artist who lives in Asheville, NC. He employs his mathematical/calculating capability to create art ranging from complex calendars and numerical palindromes to Rembrandt-like antiquarian landscapes to Asian scrolls.
Widener’s work can be found in many private and public Outsider Art collections, including the Bruno Decharme
ABCD Collection in Paris, The American Folk Art Museum, The Art Collection of the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute and The Collection de l’Art Brut. Widener has exhibited at the Jan Krugier Gallery, Salon du Dessins Contemporain, Kunsthaus Kannen (Münster, Germany), the Islands of Genius exhibition (for prodigious savants) and others. Widener is represented by Ricco Maresca Gallery in New York City.
New York Times art critic Roberta Smith proclaimed that the artist was "one of the Outsider Art Fair’s most significant recent discoveries." He is also the subject of a recently published (2009) book The Art of George Widener by Roger Cardinal.

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