A recent survey conducted with 3,500
members of this age segment revealed that 80 % supported industrial hemp as a means to curtail deforestation and 60 % would vote for a political
And, surprisingly enough, many
of these artists were connected to the Abstract Expressionist movement (the most sought - after
segment in the art market) to one extent or another: a Washington D.C. - based artist Sam Gilliam was brought by David Kordansky Gallery to Frieze Art Fair in New York this year, an active
member of the famous New York School Edward Dugmore was exhibited at Loretta Howard gallery just recently, and now it is Raymond Spillenger, an Abstract Expressionist who is gaining attention with an upcoming retrospective scheduled for early 2016 at the Black Mountain College near Asheville, N.C. Spillenger, who died in November at the
age of 89, abruptly left the art scene in the late 6os, and while his fellow AbEx artists were going through mounting recognition and success at the Stable Annual, Spillenger plunged into family life and didn't show his art even to the family
members.