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Article: High Street is driven to abstraction ; The Dayton Society of Painters and Sculptors show has 55 works.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- August 30, 2009
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DAYTON -- There are as many opinions about abstract art as there
are ways to make it. But there are 55 recent ways that Dayton-area
artists have put their fingerprint on what abstraction means to
them. The results are hanging at the Dayton Society of Painters and
Sculptors High Street Gallery.
Many of these artists are showing more than one work, and the
level of experience ranges from "just starting out" to seasoned
professionals.
"The impulse to abstraction is as vital and valid a vein in the
body of human art making as the impulse to representation," stated
juror Peter Gooch.
"In selecting the works for inclusion, I relied on my eye and my
instincts rather than my intellect. Energy, ...