Abstract Expression April 10, 2009

Claire Trevor School of the Arts and Department of Drama present Abstract Expression, directed by Erin McBride Africa, candidate in the MFA directing program at UC Irvine.

Abstract Expression examines the world of art and society’s underclass. A once-celebrated and now nearly forgotten artist has been working in seclusion for years, supported by his high school drop-out daughter. When he is rediscovered and launched to fame, questions are provoked: Who gets to define which art is good? Can we divorce the art from the artist? Who owns a work of art? Undercurrents of social injustice and hypocrisy run beneath this drama filled with biting humor and tragedy, all set in the complex realities of the New York art world.

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