NEW YORK, NY.- On March 3, 2011 Luxembourg & Dayan gallery unveiled the exhibition Unpainted Paintings, an international survey of more than two dozen extraordinary works of abstract art from the 1950s to the present that together reveal a continuous, if often underappreciated, strain of Modernism. For decades, artists have oscillated between loyalty to pictorial tradition and a desire to expand the boundaries of, undermine, or even attack the picture plane. Pushing the expressive potential of the non-conventional with such actions as burning, tearing, stitching, smothering, and soiling, the artists represented in this historical show range from Lynda Benglis, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Jean Dubuffet, Raymond Hains, Sheila Hicks, Piero Manzoni, Otto Muehl, Blinky Palermo, Paola Pivi, Robert