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Novel works by artists-in-training

Ron English's Billboard-size "Abraham Obama" hangs along Thayer Street. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff)

By Cate McQuaid

Globe Correspondent / July 23, 2008

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Among the standard-issue operatically abstract paintings and fuzzy animal sculptures that crop up every year at the "Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition," there's almost always something startling and original. The juried exhibit, now in its third year, showcases work made by more than 90 graduate students at 12 New England art schools. (Full article: 860 words)