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Bethesda Fine Art presents its new online exhibition, "On the Edge of Abstraction: Gilliam, Young, Sockwell, and Daley." This show brings together four Black Washington DC artists, who pushed the boundaries of abstraction, experimenting notably with the concept of edge, not only as a formal structure, but as a concept to break free from.

In the 1960s and 70s, the Washington Color School brought national attention to innovations in abstraction by DC artists, forever redefining the concepts of color and form. Whether the wholly abstract works of Sam Gilliam or Kenneth Victor Young, …