The synergy between two creative minds and masters of abstract expressionism is the subject of this exhibition. In particular, the exhibition features works completed by Alfonso Ossorio (1916-90) and Jackson Pollock (1912-56) at a time when the two men were soul mates in a search for the elusive artistic breakthrough and Ossorio influenced Pollock.

Ossorio's wax and watercolor works on paper marked a stage in the evolution of abstract expressionism when "forms

and images dissolve and re-form into new organisms." He applied paint from a paintbrush onto paper placed flat on a table. The result was not unpredictable automatist drawing, however, but rather abstraction with a subject. None other than French artist Jean Dubuffet said of Ossorio's work, "We are witnessing the invention of a very rich language of signs." There are affinities between Ossorio and Pollock--automatist drawing and pictographs that can be interpreted as body parts. The works in this exhibition--thirty by Ossiorio and six screen prints by Pollock originally prepared for his solo exhibition at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, in 1951--make for a compelling juxtaposition.