Article: STREAM OF FLUID ABSTRACTION CONNECTS ENGAGING WORKS BY TRIO OF LOCAL ARTISTS.(What's Happening)

Denzil Hurley, Gillian Theobald and Susan Dory are Seattle partisans of a fluid kind of abstraction. Silky and sly, it flirts with and then tries to deny various kinds of representation.

Hurley at the James Harris Gallery is the most lush and yet most remote of the three. Working small with oils on canvas glued to board, he has reduced tones to dots and given them painterly fields in which to reverberate.

These jittery dots engage each other, or when presented alone, engage the implication of shadows around them. Above all, they engage their surroundings, which are cloudy and richly atmospheric.

Some say Hurley's search for elementary purity is, ...

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