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Common Expression is an attempt to call to attention newly emerging themes in art that have been dormant for some time, works that reinvigorate abstract expressionism and performative objects that induce intimate expressions by the viewer. The paintings in this show by Carrie Rudd, Ilana Savdie and Howard Spann are highly fluid, even when figuration begins to enter the field, the materiality of paint supersedes, and strays these painters away from form and towards mark making through intuition and expression. The sculptures in this show by Gordon Hall, Howard Spann, and Alina Tenser are more …