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His artwork is a uniquely suitable subject for Lawler’s investigations. They are both figurative and abstract and are to be found in great numbers in public museums, private collections, and on the international auction market. Richter’s aloof approach to his work, which countenances no spontaneous emotivity, finds its congenial counterpart in Lawler’s coolly scrutinizing photographs. With Richter’s series strips, of which examples are exhibited on the second floor in the permanent collection, and with Lawler’s photographs that she stretches and directly installs onto the wall, both artists found new aesthetic formulas from the portfolio of their own artworks.