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a   Past Exhibitions Press Clippings Future Exhibitions March 4th - April 26th, 2005 Characters, Scene 1 Featuring the works of: Since the 1980's, contemporary art, in particular, painting, has had an overriding tendency toward realism. This movement- albeit inhomogeneous- has continued to open an increasingly large venue for narrative. Nevertheless, one can try to analyze this phenomenon from an innovative perspective: character. The link of characters to narrative is deep and necessary; they are, after all, the primary vehicles of story.

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