With attention to stylistic continuities and contrasts, notions of community and isolation, and the persistence of an urban/rural dialectic, John Corbett will discuss the work of eight figures associated with Ox-Bow, four of them emerging during the modernist ethos of mid-20th century American art - Isobel Steele MacKinnon, Max Kahn, Eleanor Coen, Frank Vavruska - and four of very recent origin - Joel Dean, Isak Applin, Rachel Niffenegger, Carmen Price.