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Welcome to the new Millennium and to Volume II, Issue 1 of Abstract Art Online. To Date, with Volume I, we can now claim to have six issues under our belts. This has included over twenty exhibition reviews, six Artist Profiles and six Artist Forums; half of which have been by contributing artist/writers. Overall reader/viewer response has been very encouraging and continues to increase significantly with each issue. From the perspective of the third Millennium and with a fleeting backward glance, suffice it to say we have been quite happy with the results of this Site and look forward to continuing on. |
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With regard to exhibitions, we have not been at all disappointed in terms of quantity and quality of content. Considering all forms of art available and their respective mediums, media and styles a lot of people apparently consider abstract art with the same degree of seriousness that we do. Our reviews would not have possible without the help and response we�ve enjoyed from galleries, especially with visual materials such as slides and catalogues. |
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In the last couple of months however, our weekly review schedule fell apart somewhat. This was partially due to the holidays and other factors, which have now been sorted out. Beginning with this issue |
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we expect to return to our original schedule. One major initiative is to expand our reviews to include occasional forays to the midtown galleries, the museums and the outer boroughs. |
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With our Profiles pages we have presented a wide mix of artists; men, women, older artists, not so older artists, those with gallery representation and those without. Even so, we have tried to keep our focus on the excellence of the painting first and foremost. The result has been that our initial goal, to present art and artists both within and beyond the constraints of the gallery structure, has seen some real achievement. This idea has been, and will continue to be, that the art is important whether or not it happens to be shown in a gallery. |
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Over the past year we also made an effort to include other authors for this page and are particularly indebted to the Journal of the American Abstract Artists for a wealth of essays about abstraction. Going forward we expect to continue include writings from this source and, hopefully, others. Also, we want to expand the mandate to include such items as a survey and presentation of galleries that show a great deal of abstract art or a feature on the status of non-commercial spaces such as the Painting Center and 55 Mercer for abstract artists. |
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