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"Mehring as a young man was one of the more spirited, inventive and
all-around better abstract painters of his time, not only in Washington,
but in the entire country." -Ben Forgey, Washington Post art critic

CONNERSMITH is pleased to present HOWARD MEHRING: CUTTING EDGE. This exhibition of color field paintings restages the Washington Color master’s stylistic evolution from all-over imagery to hard-edge abstraction.

In 1958, building on the breakout success of his early lyrical abstractions, Mehring originated the technique of pouring paint and stippling with a brush that would …