Stephen F. Eisenman
Tomma Abts
by Stephen F. Eisenman
The thirty-two small, abstract paintings in Tomma Abts’s show, which the Art Institute co-organized with the Serpentine Galleries in London, recall what Ezra Pound said he was trying to do with his short imagist poems... Read more
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