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Emerson Dorsch is pleased to announce our next exhibition And Elsewhere, a selection of works by Robert Thiele. The central artwork in the show, a new series painted on the pages of a single magazine, harks back to Robert Motherwell’s Elegy to the Spanish Republic, which consists of about 100 paintings of black ovals from 1948-1967, though it also recalls Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased deKooning Drawing from 1953. Chance operations seem to play a role in the generation of abstract language - as automatism did for Motherwell. So does erasure, as it did for Rauschenberg. But the brutality of the …