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Diablo Canyon by Michael Wright
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Michael Wright is an octogenarian artist currently living in Sante Fe, NM. He has an extended history within the art world—working as the studio assistant to Willem de Kooning and associating with the greats of the New York Abstract Expressionist scene. Wright has always been inspired by the natural views around him. Yet, he was never content to simply depict it exactly as it appeared. Abstraction was his language.
Title: Diablo Canyon by Michael Wright
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Michael Wright is an octogenarian artist currently living in Sante Fe, NM.
He has an extended history within the art world—working as the studio assistant to Willem de Kooning and associating with the greats of the New York Abstract Expressionist scene.
Wright has always been inspired by the natural views around him.
Yet, he was never content to simply depict it exactly as it appeared.
Abstraction was his language.
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