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Local Artists Embrace the Audacity of Abstraction

author on Apr 14, 2015
[caption id="attachment_37037" align="alignnone" width="600"] Fairly Squarely by Dan Welden[/caption] By Dawn Watson Independent of representational imagery, abstract art is a bold departure from its figurative and scenic brethren. Not surprisingly,... more

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