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"Each piece attempts to be both evocatively beautiful and ambiguously narrative simultaneously...I want viewers to "read" these and think, make connections and interact, be swept away by the sense of the unknown revealed as well as explored and suggested - because no mysteries are solved here."

Austin Straus Rosetta Speaks 1997 acrylic & mixed media collage on canvas board, mounted on canvas 24" x 20" x 1/4" courtesy of the artist

Neuberger Museum of Art 20 September 1998 - 31 January 1999