Some art admirers got a glimpse at a local creator's finest pieces Friday night--even though the artist himself never got to see them.
An auction was held at the Ronald K. De Long Gallery on Penn State's Lehigh Valley Campus, with more than 30 Greg Weaver pieces.
Weaver grew up in the Lehigh Valley and attended high school in Allentown before enrolling at Penn State University.
He graduated from University Park with a political science degree, but later decided to pursue his passion for art.
Weaver also earned a fine arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
He spent the next twenty years creating and teaching art throughout the Lehigh Valley.
Art enthusiasts praise Weaver for his eye for color.
"There's such a depth, and such a sense of color, and how color reacts with each other," said Ann Lalik, Director of the Ronald K. De Long Gallery.
But Weaver soon lost his ability to see color, or anything at all.
"That's tragic for an artist, a visual artist, to not be able to see anymore," Lalik said.
Diabetes complications contributed to his blindness, and ultimately his death, in 1994.
"When he knew he was going blind, he started to teach himself how to see with his hands," Lalik said.
No longer able to see color, Weaver started creating monochromatic texturized paintings.
"You can tell he was feeling the shapes he was creating," Lalik said.
Friday's event was the first art auction at Penn State's Lehigh Valley campus since the gallery opened four years ago.
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