“Committed abstractionists are finding themselves irresistibly drawn to the figure… In today’s anything-goes atmosphere, switching camps—from abstraction to representation or vice versa—is not considered exceptionally radical, or even brave, but it still gives us pause. “People felt betrayed, as if I did it to them,” says (one artist) who shifted in the early 1990s from making abstract constructions to painting portraits and other representational images.” (Art News Online)