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Simpatico, a new exhibit at the Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) at the Stone Gallery demonstrates that abstract art is alive and well, in the work of nine influential artists, including Dana Frankfort, a College of Fine Arts assistant professor [...]of visual arts.
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Defining abstract art, which bridges culture from prehistoric to contemporary, can be complicated. But in the BU Art Gallery’s installation, it’s distilled into its simplest form — shapes.
Rachael Arauz, guest curator of The [...]Shape of Abstraction, has created a survey of artists from the 1930s onward, including Josef Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Thomas Nozkowski, Franz Kupka, Ralph Coburn, and Burgoyne Diller. Their works pop with colorful squares, circles, triangles, and free-form shapes.
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