Raw Vision, Summer 2005, RV#51
George Widener: "An obsession with dates and calendars"
written by Roger Cardinal

[excerpt] "Like many documents in the Outsider canon, the calendars and diagrams produced by George Widener are not exactly beautiful, yet their inventiveness and urgency alert us to the existence of a distinctive mind, as well as to a palpable human presence."
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The New York Times, January 28, 2005
Untamed Art From the Fringes Is a Gust of Bracing Air
Written by Roberta Smith

[excerpt] "If your ability to respond to art sometimes flags in the frozen depths of January, not to worry. A cure is close at hand: the Outsider Art Fair, packed into the ground floor of the majestic Puck Building in SoHo through Sunday. This small, no-frills fair is unvetted, uncarpeted and unspacious, but it gives the New York art world an annual dose of smelling salts. It seems timed to jolt back to full alertness your appreciation of the visual arts and their central role in the life of the spirit."

[excerpt] "And at Henry Boxer, on a par with the work of Dû-Glass, by which I mean high, are the drawings of George Widener, a British mathematical savant in his 40's, who covers surfaces made of tea-stained paper napkins with profusions of numbers and words. The most magnificent of these reviews the sinking of the Titanic in considerable detail."

Rapid River Magazine, June 2004, Vol.7, No.10
Artist of the Month 2004 > George Widener's: "Art for art's sake"
written by Kelly Boler

[excerpt] " 'Numbers are inside of everyone,' he says, 'but I can feel them, and play with them. People see them a little bit. Some autistic people can feel it all of the time.' Widener is in between, and says he has to get in touch with it, and when he does he can 'hear' the numbers. They come in flashes."
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