Charles Seliger Painted Nature’s Invisible Architecture
Charles Seliger, who had his first solo show at age 19 at Peggy Guggenheim’s The Art of This Century in 1945, is revisited as an early Abstract Expressionist who pursued an independent, nature-focused path rather than large-scale gestural or geometric painting. The article emphasizes Seliger’s interest in Surrealist automatism and in the “invisible” structures of the natural world, including cellular patterns, which set him apart from many peers and contributed to his relative absence from standard Abstract Expressionism surveys. After Seliger’s death in 2009, his dealer Michael Rosenfeld mounted “Charles Seliger: A Memorial Exhibition” in 2010, but the artist’s work has remained comparatively overlooked. A new exhibition, “Charles Seliger: The Structure of Matter, A Centennial Exhibition,” at Hollis Taggart is presented as a corrective that brings renewed attention to his contributions.
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