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Mark Lamster

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The surrealists had "automatic" abstraction; channeled images from the subconscious. I shot these pictures out of a car window. With their zippy vertical lines, they remind me of Barney Newman. Anyway, the colors are pretty, and the surfaces look painterly in an Abstract Expressionist kind of way.

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Mark Lamster is a writer on the arts and culture. He is Associate American Editor of The Architectural Review, and is currently at work on his third book, a biography of the late architect Philip Johnson. Follow: @marklamster.
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