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The architect and academic Michael Abel brings his artistic practice to YveYANG Gallery this January with “MUTT," an exhibition of new paintings that showcase his ability to refract the multifarious elements of his persona, weaving intimate significance into his portraits of sea life, and even his still lifes of mystical trinkets found on eBay.

Painted oil-on-linen in his studio atop a skyscraper, Abel’s works showcase experimentation. The artist surveys a wide span of art history and renovates techniques from all its different eras. The end results are fresh, profound, and wholly his …