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It was the briefest of micro genre, "gentle abstraction," it existed in the cusp of the 2010s between "indexical contingent beside-itself painting," and the "process-based zombie pollockstraction." Artists were sponging soft colors. Treib was their masthead. Then the world changed and we needed figures to stand in for progress. But this was thought to be the future then. Rearming painting as a non-objective babyroom warmth.
