Exhibition	Step into Liquid
Artist(s)	Callister, Jane Fries, Pia Hayward, James Reafsnyder, Michael Reed, David
Title	Step Into Liquid
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Year	2005
Decade(s)	2000s
Exhibition Dates	2005 December 3 - 2006 January 28
Curator(s)	Hickey, Dave
Description	Exhibition curated by Guest Curator: Dave Hickey. In post-war American abstraction, wet became the new deep. Paintings, of course, are neither wet nor deep. The idea of wetness became a primary metaphor for a whole manner of painting in which the fluidity of the surface provides the narrativity once provided by pictorial depth. Since most wet painting in recent years has been in the figurative idiom, Guest Curator Dave Hickey thought it would be interesting to revisit this tradition of abstraction in some of its current manifestations and to do so in Southern California where the language of liquidity has its own iconography.
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Gallery	Ben Maltz Gallery
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Collection	Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive