This section features Dan Abramson’s versatile collection of Works on Paper, encompassing his powerful collages, manipulated images, and mixed media compositions. Reflecting his belief that art “must be learned” and is not contained merely “in the art store,” Abramson embraced the collage technique, often finding his means of expression “in the gutters & dumpsters.”

The collection’s centerpiece is "Pictures at an Exhibition," a profound suite of 14 mixed-media paintings executed on heavy, handmade French Arches paper.

This series was inspired not by the popular orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky’s composition, but by the "power and intimacy" of a 1961 solo piano performance of the masterwork by Byron Janis. Abramson viewed art as a "language without lies" where Form emerges through "layers of confusion & dialogue & opinion".
In keeping with the artist’s uncompromising aesthetic, these works, which utilize elements of oil, crayons, pencil, and collage, are ideally displayed unframed to reveal the raw edges of the paper.

In keeping with the artist’s uncompromising aesthetic, these works—utilizing oil, crayons, pencil, and collage—are ideally displayed unframed to reveal the raw edges of the paper.