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Steven Assael, called “the foremost figurative painter of his generation” by The Art Newspaper, will exhibit his latest paintings and drawings at Forum Gallery, New York from November 12 to December 31, 2015. In these works, Assael’s focus is on brides and grooms, each embodying the hope, fear, anticipation and resolve that make betrothal a subject of such import to the Artist. “I usually start”, the artist states, “with a visual, thematic idea – brides, for example – but the narrative evolves, its subtext articulated as the painting develops.” Family has long loomed large in Assael’s …