Retired art teacher launches unique art exhibit at 171 Cedar Arts

CORNING, N.Y. (WENY)-- A new art exhibit opened on Friday at 171 Cedar Arts featuring one hundred large vibrant portrait paintings. The artist is a retired art teacher with the Bath School District and Mansfield University.

Daniel Roemmelt has come out of retirement after teaching art for four decades. He started taking art classes hoping to rediscover and re-invent his creativity.
 

Friday, he launched an art show exhibiting portraits he's been working on for the past three years. The exhibit is called, “Facing The Future.”
 

These masterpieces showcase a combination of faces in vibrant rich colors and striking dramatic expressions. Every portrait exhibits the beauty and life story of that individual.
 

Roemmelt explained with every stroke he aims to capture their essence, and who they are as a person.
 

"Facing the Future also came out of the fact that in 2017 in retirement one suddenly is in a situation in your life where you start to plan out what your future will look like so the combination of these faces that I have been painting and kind of how it related to what I was doing with my own life and how that was taking a new course,” Roemmelt said.

Facing The Future Art Exhibit will go through September 10th at 171 Cedar Arts in Corning.