FOR JANUARY 7 –

STROKE! ROSENELD GALLERY – NO CUTS –

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NEW YORK CITY — Stroke! will reveal three artists’ significant contribution to American abstraction. The exhibition will be on view at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery from January 14 through March 12, and will feature for each artist a selection of monumental paintings and works on paper.

Beauford Delaney, Norman Lewis and Alma Thomas, three African American masters of abstraction, were courageous in their pursuit and commitment to a nonrepresentational language despite intense pressures from the African American community to depict social realist images. For each artist, abstraction was the ideal, universal language to express the beauty of the natural world, light and emotion. Each artist worked independently in his or her New York, Paris and Washington, DC studios, while developing their individual personal language of abstraction.

Alma Thomas is best known for her colorful dots and dashes in rhythmic patterns; Norman Lewis for his calligraphic “little figures” in mysterical atmospheres; and Beauford Delaney for his thick impasto swirls of brilliant color.

The Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is at 24 West 57th Street. For information, contact Maggie Seidel, associate director, at 212-247-0082 or visit www.michaelrosenfeldart.com.