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Black Box (pink and lime) 20 1/2 x 20 1/2 in, 2011
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NOTICE digital drawing, 2011
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hung out to dry drawing 2011
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Pumping up the Volume, digital drawing over gallery wall image, 2010
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Informal Relations: Contemporary works on papercurator Scott Grow selected 32 artists from the United States,  Germany, Spain and Japan to focus on the diversity of practices within  painting and abstraction today.
The exhibition’s title refers to kind the “informal relations”  artists have with one another, their predecessors, with the modernist  tradition, the future, and even with their own work. While works on  paper may stand as finished works, they are also often places for  exploration, thinking, planning, taking chances, and failure.
The show explores the challenges of abstract art. Since it typically  refuses expected representation, language and absolute interpretation,  it requires the viewer’s engagement and participation. Abstraction is  not a singular school or style, the term itself is not necessarily  helpful in identifying the qualities or concepts of the art object.  Abstract artists often have shared and conflicting objectives for the  art they make.
In response to these challenges with their genre of art, each artist  in Informal Relations presents a definition of abstract  painting. The exhibition explores the similarities, differences, and  connections between these artists, their dialog with abstraction’s  history, and various directions forward for abstraction.
Participating artists include: Patrick Alt, Chris Ashley, Patrick  Berran, Kadar Brock, Matthew Deleget, Laura Fayer, Keltie Ferris,  Patrick Michael Fitzgerald, Connie Goldman, Brent Hallard, Rachel Hayes,  Jeffrey Cortland Jones, Michael Just, Matthew Langley, Jim Lee, Rossana  Martinez, Rob Nadeau, Melissa Oresky, Paul Pagk, Danielle Riede,  Maximilian Rödel, Eric Sall, Susan Scott, Gabriel J. Shuldiner, Jessica  Snow, Henning Straßburger, Garth Weiser, Wendy White, Paige Williams,  Douglas Witmer, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung and John Zurier.
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