"Being introduced to the artists of Futura Bold by the directed energy of Diane Farris was a memorable blur of back to back studio visits.

"These artists were steeped in talent and allure. The provocation of what they were doing recalled the cyclic, 20th Century phenomenon of the other side of modernism; the fascination with the human body, the alternative of the anti-formalist and non-objective painted surface, and the semi-perverse sexual content that have happily erupted every fifteen or twenty years.

"These artists obviously wanted to hang out together and their attraction made others, including curators and collectors, want to join their clubish, steamy art menage."

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