Hayley Plack blogs about the exhibition Angels, Demons and Savages: Pollock, Ossorio, Dubuffet at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., on view through May 12, 2013.

Plack writes that "The exhibition traces the relationships between Jackson Pollock, Alfonso Ossorio, and Jean Dubuffet, three artists working simultaneously across continents in similar abstract styles during the period of 1945 to 1958. The 53 paintings and prints in the exhibition tell the story of how Pollock, Ossorio and Dubuffet influenced each other through not only their close friendships, but also through the sharing of ideas, techniques and even studio spaces… All three grappled with abstraction versus figuration, and each had an interest in process and materials."