Object-makers, like the producers of happenings (often they are the same person), work towards the dissolution of formal boundaries and sponsor paradoxical cross-overs between art and nature. However, the painter, committed to the surface of his canvas and to the process of translating objects into signs, does not have a wide-ranging freedom in which everything becomes art and art becomes anything. Because the painters have been identified with the object-makers, under various slogans, the definition of painting qua painting has been attached recently, more than it need have been, to abstract art. It is hoped, therefore, that by presenting six painters in this exhibition, they can be detached from an amorphous setting and, also, that the definition of painting can be extended to cope with the problem that the work presents.