New art gallery opens at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church

Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church has opened a beautiful new art gallery in its recently-renovated Ministries Center. The church’s first exhibit features paintings of Michael Bartmann. After a career as a landscape architect, Bartmann studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Center City Philadelphia. His work is largely inspired by the vacant industrial spaces of cities such as Camden and Philadelphia, and his paintings capture the beautiful and dynamic play of light, surface and space within these abandoned settings. Bartmann evokes emotion using spatial dimension, atmosphere and defining architecture.

Collections of his artwork are on display at the Pennsylvania Convention Center and the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and the Physicians Care Surgical Hospital in Royersford, Pennsylvania.

The Bartmann exhibit will be on display through March 27. The public is welcome to view his artwork Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to noon.

Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church is located at 625 Montgomery Ave. in Bryn Mawr. For more information about the church, visit www.bmpc.org.