Artist Bartosz Beda To Be Featured in Solo Exhibition Hosted By Art Gallery at Collin College in Plano Texas

Artist Bartosz Beda will be holding a solo exhibition hosted by the Art Gallery at Collin College beginning September 29, 2023. The collection is titled "Echoes of Seasons" and features large scale paintings incorporating the symbolic framework of the four seasons thematically exploring the human experience. The large space of the Art Gallery will allow exhibtion of Beda's latest large scale paintings. This latest collection features stunning, vivid colors in Beda's iconic obfuscated and beautifully distorted style.

“Echoes of Seasons is a harmonious blend of abstraction and figuration, a union where neither dominates the painting. In this exploration of the human experience hidden under layers of metaphorical Freud cake, the paintings serve as windows into the complex seasons of migration of human nature,” Bartosz Beda, featured solo artist, said.

The Art Gallery at Collin College will host the exhibition Echoes of Seasons by artist Bartosz Beda from Sept. 29 through Oct. 26 at the Plano Campus. A reception will be held from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. on Oct. 24. 4-7 pm. The art exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. The gallery is located on Collin College's Plano Campus, Room A175, 2800 E. Spring Creek Parkway in Plano. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Visitors are also encouraged to join faculty, staff, and students for an Artist Talk in the gallery from Noon-12:45 p.m. on Oct. 10 to hear Gallery Director Anna Fritzel interview Beda about his recent artwork. For more information about the exhibition please visit https://bartoszbeda.com/solo-exhibition-sept-oct-2023-art-gallery-plano-tx/.

Born in Poland in 1984, Bartosz Beda embarked on his artistic journey by relocating to the UK in 2008 to pursue studies at the Manchester School of Art. After completing his MA in Fine Art in 2012, Beda gained recognition by being selected for the esteemed 2012 Catlin Art Guide as the UK’s most promising emerging artist. He also was shortlisted for titles such as the Title Art Prize and the Door Prize and selected for The Saatchi New Sensations 2012 group exhibition in London. Beda’s achievements include winning the Towry Award for Best of the North of England in 2012, recognition as a finalist for the Williams Drawing Prize in the USA in 2014, and second place in the Viewpoints 2014 competition in New Jersey. He won a prize in the Interstate Group Exhibition at CWU Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, USA, 2017. Bartosz’s pursuit of excellence continued with a scholarship to the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 2012/13 and a fellowship from Fondazione per l’Arte in Rome in 2016. His artistic footprint spans numerous countries, with solo exhibitions in Spain, Colombia, England, and across the USA and participation in group shows worldwide.

Bartosz Beda paintings are in public collection at Reading Public Museum, Brownsville Museum, Siena Art Institute, and Fondazione Per’l Arte, as well as in private collections throughout Europe, the United States, South Africa, and Asia.

Before relocating from Poland to England, Beda worked on animation in the film industry, including two movie productions, Ichthis by Marek Skrobecki (2005) and Peter and the Wolf by Suzieh Tempelton (2006), which received the Oscar Prize in 2007.

Beda’s art has been widely interviewed and referenced for The Independent, Studio International, Expose Art Magazine, Creative Times, Radcliffe Times, A-N Magazine, Mastars at Axisweb, Arteon Art Magazine, Expose Magazine, Spokesman-Review, BuzzFeed, Daily News and featured in The Guardian, The Telegraph and Money Week, NatWest, Inlander. Mentioned on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013 as ‘one to watch’. He now lives and works in Dallas, TX, USA.