Abstraction=Representation

Artists: Benjamin Darby, David Christensen, Carl Hasse, Cordy Ryman, Collin Shutz, Anne Siems, Victoria Haven, Malei Young, Doug Parry and Brandon Zebold 

Curator: Matthew Kangas (Seattle) 

Date: October 12 to November 4, 1995 

Curator's Lecture: October 13 

At a time when non-objective and representational art were considered poles apart, many younger artists were determined to mix, fuse, or confuse the issue by retaining elements of both in their art. 

Kangas, a prominent American art critic and curator who has written for Vanguard and was an editor for Art in America, selected painting, sculpture, works on paper, glass and mixed media artworks to affirm the notion that concepts of abstraction and representation are closer together than we thought and that many contemporary artists have refused to separate the two into polemic opposites. Small-scale and large scale works were included by artists from Seattle, New York City and St. Louis areas of the U.S.