About Howard Podeswa
From the essay by curator, E.C. Woodley: “Podeswa’s surrealism, like Magritte’s work that he directly references, is full of the confusions, or perhaps, the realities, of representational painting when it is committed to at the highest level. These confusions might be said to be of art in general, including literature and poetry, theatre and film. How to present to another human being the truths that fiction can convey? Perhaps, as a legacy of his work with his father, as well as his recognition of the loss of material and embodied qualities to surface values when viewing artworks online, Podeswa often retains an acute sensitivity for the real … Work such as this which involves itself in embodied existential complexity must be experienced by a viewer present amidst the space of an exhibition in a state of open and contemplative looking.” – E.C. Woodley, 2022.