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Painting untethers a mesh of past, present and future. Intuitive and intentional, the emotion of making is moving towards the stillness of viewing, wavering in the density and airiness of our coming and going. Abstraction, a siren for expansive thinking, offers generous clarity and strangeness; also, brutal, base forms of beauty. – Maggie Michael

One of Washington, D.C.’s leading painters, Maggie Michael's lyrical works are a powerful reminder of the transformative potential of abstraction. Her paintings unfold as a series of capricious moments, processes, and forms, evoking the history …