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5th Annual Downtown Artists Show

April 16 - May 16, 1982 Works with the common theme of urban anxiety. Artists included: Merion Estes, Barry Fahr, Miriam Feldman, Lawrence Hansen, Jeff Isaak, Suzanne Lacy, Andy Schuess, Stephen ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1980-1984, Exhibition, LACE Tagged With: 1982, 5th Annual Downtown Artists Show, Al Nodal, Andy Schuess, Barry Fahr, Downtown Artists, Downtown Artists series, Exhibition, Jeff Isaak, Lawrence Hansen, Merion Estes, Miriam Feldman, Stephen Seemayer, Suzanne Lacy, Verity B. Smith

Jim Morris / Drawings

  February 24 - March 28, 1982 Jim Morris' large 8’ by 8’ pencil drawings on paper were displayed in a matrix of horizontal bands similar to the scan lines on a T.V. screen, part of the ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1980-1984, Exhibition, LACE Tagged With: 1982, Downtown Artists, Downtown Artists series, drawings, Exhibition, Jim Morris, Jim Morris / Drawings

Barry Campion / Drawings and Paintings

January 6 - February 7, 1982 Atmospheric paintings by Barry Campion with reductive approach to figuration and a concern for pattern and symbol, part of the Downtown Artists series. ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1980-1984, Exhibition, LACE Tagged With: 1982, Barry Campion, Barry Campion / Drawings and Paintings, Downtown Artists, Downtown Artists series, drawing, Drawings and Paintings, Exhibition, painting

Bruce James / The Road Show

  November 29 - December 20, 1981 An exhibition of pavement and asphalt paintings featuring highway iconography by Bruce James that was part of the Downtown Artists series. ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1980-1984, Exhibition, LACE Tagged With: 1981, Bruce James, Bruce James / The Road Show, Downtown Artists, Downtown Artists series, Exhibition, painting, The Road Show

Recent Painting Constructions by Stephen Grossman

July 22 - August 22, 1981 Relief constructions by Stephen Grossman examining two-dimensional spatial relationships into real space, part of the Downtown Artists series. ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1980-1984, Exhibition, LACE Tagged With: 1981, Downtown Artists, Downtown Artists series, painting, Recent Painting Constructions, Recent Painting Constructions by Stephen Grossman, Stephen Grossman, two-dimensional

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