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G Fine Art begins 10th anniversary season with Maggie Michael: There is No Rising or Setting Sun

WASHINGTON, DC.- G Fine Art begins its 10th anniversary season with There is No Rising or Setting Sun, new paintings and works on paper by Maggie Michael. An opening reception will be held Saturday, September 10, 6-8PM, and the exhibition will run through October 15, 2011. Michael’s fourth solo exhibition features a group of works on paper – the Danube Series – executed this summer in Cetate, Romania, following the artist’s recent completion of a collaborative large scale mural for the US Embassy in Bucharest, a commission from the US Art in Embassies program. Paintings executed at the artist’s studio in Washington, DC will also be featured. The new work sees a further evolution in Michael’s oeuvre following the introduction of text-based works in her exhibition All at Once (2008). In There is No Rising or Setting Sun, text is both obscured and evident: “I incorporate the negative and p