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“I’m not an abstractionist,” she told The New York Times in 1983.

The curator, a local painter represented by the gallery, selected the work of five longtime friends, most of them abstractionists.

Unlike her noted predecessors, however, Wolfe isn’t a pure abstractionist.

Like a cartoon drawing by Ad Reinhardt, the most rigorous of American abstractionists, he points excitedly beneath the girl’s skirt, presumably where an explanation might be found.

The work of geometric abstractionist Matthew Thomas is in some ways a product of these encounters that happened during the expansion of the West.