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Jacques Monory was born in Paris in 1922 was a founder of Figuration Narrative (see Peter Klasen, above).  His long and productive career has extended beyond painting into film (five since 1968) and literature (eight novels).  Monory has shown with the Galerie Schwarz in Milan, Galerie Maeght in Paris, and Zurich and Galerie Lelong in Paris.  The artist traveled extensively in the United States in the 1970s and America has been a persistent subject of his art.  Particularly notable is Monory's working relationship with theorist Jean-Françoise Lyotard.  Jacques Monory continues to live and work in Paris.

Ulrike Ottinger was born in Konstanz, Germany in 1942.  She grew up in Munich.  In the early 1960s Ottinger moved to Paris where she was a painter, working in a brightly graphic form of narrative figuration.  In the late 1960s Ottinger moved to Berlin and began producing elaborate and fanciful films buoyed by their extraordinary whimsy and elaborate costuming.  Ottinger was close to Jack Smith, who visited Berlin in the 1970s.  Recently Ottinger was the subject of a film retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.  Her work is currently in Wack!, LA MOCA's feminist exhibition. The artist continues to live and work in Berlin.

Jacques Poli was born in Nimes, France in 1938.  He studied painting at the Ecole National Superieure with the political abstractionists Neil Toroni, Daniel Buren and Claude Viallat, and was briefly associated with Narrative Figuration.  In the late 1960s he began to produce paintings of mechanical implements; broken screws, complex, abstractly patterned blades, etc.  In the late 1970s his oddly organic hardware underwent a metamorphosis, emerging as insect anatomies (a subject also broached by Labisse).  In 1979 the author Georges Perec (Life: A Users Manual, 1978) wrote a text on Poli for Adrien Maeght; Entomological Paintings.  In the 1980s Poli began to make highly abstract paintings based on architecture.  He was a professor of art in Rouen and died in Paris in 2002.

Walter Redinger was born in West Lorne, Ontario in 1940.  His large-scale fiberglass biomorphic/minimalist sculptures picked up on the 1960's trend towards formal clarity but fused this to the transformative organic tendencies of surrealism and the modishly sleek sensibility of pop.  Informed by that pernicious quirk of Canadian Anglophilia - a taste for Henry Moore - Redinger's art is original and odd.  In Toronto, in the late 1960s, Reginger was part of a group of artists making