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Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works on paper by Raoul Middleman. With renewed inspiration and unrestrained expression, the works on view bring together the artist’s lifelong passions and closest subjects: Baltimore, burlesque and horses.

In a suite of monoprints, Middleman works quickly and directly on the inked plate by wiping and scratching away the black ground, recalling with ease and a decisive hand the horse’s gait or dancer’s heels. There is an undeniable magnetism to these works of memory. The mark-making is wild and tumultuous, containing an almost …