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Nearly all of these artists were known personally to Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof as radical abstractionists. Each of them followed quite distant but parallel roads, pursuing elemental constituents of the art of painting. None were their students or mentees.

Some of these painters, such as Ruth Ann Fredenthal or Alan Kleiman, reduce contrast to the point of obliterating it altogether, as they appear to pare the act of painting down to its constitutive elements of color and surface. In the past Marcia Hafif’s paintings have occupied the interstice between presentation and explication, the …