Included in the 2009 exhibition Abstract Realism at The Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota. “I painted in the early 1970’ with the artists Paul Georges and Fairfield Porter. Though I have a career in New York City as a contemporary artist making more inner-directed abstract paintings, the experience of painting out-of-doors informs all my work. These paintings were a return to that earlier outer experience in the early 1990’s.” —Gregory Botts Ray Graham Collection