Angela Bidak: Still Waters

OPENING

Wednesday 12th November 6-9pm

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Within the work of Angela Bidak, light shifts over the mist of Niagara’s Falls where the artist was raised: luminous, mutable, unsettled, yet ever present. With a palette of greens, pinks and violets combining into obscured grey hues, the opposites create an equilibrium of a veil between spheres that is both bruised and blushing. In conjunction with the enigmatic quality of the mist across the surface, Bidak’s works also contain an impression of existing disconnected to gravity. As our eye consistently finds precarious horizontal lines across the works, we are left with a sensation of instability and weightlessness. The atmosphere is a noisy and distorted one, where lost within its confines, bodies disintegrate, fracture, resist and emerge within a delicate architecture of interiority.

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Angela Bidak (b. 1991 Niagara Falls, New York) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Bidak graduated from her MFA at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2024 and previously studied at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include: ‘Big Other’, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, 2025; ‘Broad Picnic’, Europa, New York, NY, 2024; Paul Soto Gallery (solo), New York, NY, 2024; ‘I Would Not Think to Touch the Sky with Two Arms’, curated by Andrew Dubow, Paulina Caspari, Munich, 2024; ‘Synonyms’, curated by Park McArthur and Jason Hirata, Westbeth Gallery, New York, 2024; ‘Take’, Rutgers MFA Thesis Exhibition, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, 2024; ‘Black Lodge’, Island Gallery, New York, NY, 2023; ‘On Going’, Mason Gross Galleries, New Brunswick, NJ, 2022; ‘Last Year on Earth’, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, 2021; ‘Upon Further Consideration’ (solo), Inadequate Lighting, Baltimore, 2021.