EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
 

WILLIAM PACHNER
SELECTED WORK 1960-1970

 April 24 – June 26,  2004

Brad Cooper Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by William Pachner. The exhibition of Selected Work 1960-1970 will include painting, drawing and pastels.  The show will open on Saturday evening, April 24, from    7- 9 p.m.  and will be on view through June 26, 2004.  Brad Cooper Gallery is located at 1712 E. 7^th Ave in YBOR CITY. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11am until 5pm.

By the 1960’s, William Pachner had been invited to exhibit in the Corcoran Biennial, the Carnegie International and the Whitney Museum of Art Annuals and had a list of solo shows in New York, most notably at Krasner Gallery; he received a Guggenheim Fellowship,  an American Federation of Arts Grant from the Ford Foundation for a retrospective exhibition, had a solo exhibition at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, and work was purchased by the Whitney Museum, Hirshorn Museum, Butler Institute of American Art, and Brandeis University’s Rose Gallery.

© William Pachner, 1960
Composition with Seated Figures, 1960, oil on linen, 20 x 46 inches

William Pachner is a contemporary voice telling his story.  Spontaneous improvisation, individuality and the action of his exuberantly visual thinking is revealed in this body of work. His work is unified not because it fits into one stylistic category or another,  but because it has been a sustained and effective critique of the concept of stylistic categories, and of the related idea of fixed, singular meanings.   The cumulative meaning of his imagery is that meanings are elusive, because the things we try to attach significance are in the state of becoming, and because our verbal categories are themselves in a state of flux.  Pachner’s works from the 60’s continue to resonate, and remain reflective and fresh.

© William Pachner,  1961  
“Nature Morte I” , oil on linen, 28x40 inches

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"Every kind of human expressiveness, which in its most disciplined and measured form we call art, is a form of address whether in prose or dance, carved shape, or the handwriting of a drawing, the music of a song. ..it constitutes an attempt of one solitude to address itself to another. This fundamental element of our need to share in the realm of feeling is an essential ingredient of the art experience.

Not unlike the fable of the sleeping beauty in which the maiden is awakened to life by the kiss of the prince, so is the work of the artist awakened only for the moment by the responsive merging of the hitherto unknown beholder with it.  A work of art would be stillborn without the sharing participation of the addressee. The echo is born of the source of the sound and the response of the valley.”                        

-WILLIAM PACHNER

© William Pachner, 1969
Amaranth, oil on linen, 70 x 70 inches

William Pachner has exhibited with Brad Cooper Gallery since 1986. 

His exhibition will be available online @ www.bradcoopergallery.com along with further information about the artist.

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Main Exhibition:

WILLIAM PACHNER: Selected Work 1960-1970

Brad Cooper Gallery
1712 E 7th Ave. YBOR CITY  (between 17th & 18th St)

11am - 5 pm / Wed – Sat  &  by appointment.