DALLAS, TX.- Some 80 lyrical collages and polychrome sculptures are on display at the Meadows Museum at SMU as part of the exhibition Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente. The exhibition, on view from May 15 through July 31, marks the first time Vicente’s collages and sculptures have been paired together in a major exhibition. Vicente, a Spanish-born American painter, was a member of the first generation of New York Abstract Expressionists and a significant 20th century artist and teacher. Vicente participated in Meyer Schapiro and Clement Greenberg’s landmark exhibition Talent 1950 and also helped to organize the seminal 9th Street show. Vicente’s collages, which he first began producing in 1949, provide an insightful connection when