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Anita Shapolsky gallery is pleased to present two prominent members of the New York School of Abstraction, Seymour (Sy) Boardman and Ernest Briggs, at a new exhibition “Masters of Abstraction”. The exhibition will focus on different stages of their careers.
Sy Boardman (1921), who studied art both in Paris and New York, was influenced by early abstraction of the twentieth century. His earlier work is based on grid like forms, evoking the geometric structure of the world around us, urban architecture, or the human body. In 1960’s he moved towards monochromatic, hard-edge shapes of contrasting …