Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to present Paul Edlin: A Retrospective September 4 through October 12, 2002. The fourth solo exhibit of the artist, it includes a broad selection of forty works created in the last two decades. The event celebrates his emerging prominence in the world of Outsider Art.

Edlin has included postage stamps in his art for many years. His early works are mixed media, with whole stamps used with ink, paint, balsa wood and other materials. In recent years he has used stamps exclusively, choosing them from those of many nations for colors and visual texture. He slices them into tiny pieces which he uses like mosaic tiles, gluing them on museum board until his composition is finalized. His scenes of people and mythological figures, animals and objects suggest a mystical personal cosmology.

Edlin, now 71, has been a reclusive person partly because of a severe life-long hearing problem, and for many years rarely showed his art publicly. However it was admired greatly by artists and critics who knew it. His first solo exhibit, in 1996 at Gordon College in Massachusetts, was followed by two others in New York City at American Primitive Gallery. Also in recent years, his work has been shown in New York at the Outsider Art Fair, in Baltimore at the American Visionary Art Museum, and in Lausanne, Switzerland at the Collection de l'Art Brut.