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In reaction to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, James Barron Art is pleased to present an exhibition of Janet Sobel and her granddaughter Ashley Shapiro. Sobel emigrated to the US from Ukraine in 1908, and Sobel and Shapiro’s art stands as a testimony to the triumph of artistic freedom after political suppression. Janet Sobel made a tremendous mark on the art world in the 1940s. Her drip paintings, which were exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim’s Art of This Century gallery in 1946, were seen by Jackson Pollock and Clement Greenberg, and perhaps played a role in the formation of the Jackson …