The Butler Institute of American Art draws from its permanent collection for an abstract art exhibition on display for the next two months.

Among the included artists are Ronald Davis, Leon Polk Smith, Nassos Daphnis, Nicholas Krushenick and Douglas D. Craft.

Davis is a painter known since the early 1960s for his use of geometric abstraction, abstract illusionism, shaped canvas paintings and 3D computer graphics. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, and “Ronald Davis: Forty Years of Abstraction” was shown at the Butler in 2002.

Smith’s paintings are geometrically oriented abstracts influenced by Piet Mondrian.

He was a follower of the Hard-edge school. His work is represented in many museums in the United States, Europe and South America, and “Leon Polk Smith: 5 Decades of Geometric Inventions” was displayed at the Butler in 1988.

Daphnis was a Greek American painter and sculptor renowned for his vibrant geometric abstractions. Over the course of his career, Daphnis developed a unique visual language that combined rigorous formalism with a deep sense of color and spatial harmony. “Nassos Daphnis Color and Form: A Retrospective” was exhibited at the Butler in 1993, and Butler Executive Director Louis A. Zone wrote the essay for the book published in conjunction with the show.

Krushenick studied painting at the Arts Students League of New York and the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts. Krushenick first developed his signature “pop abstract” style in the early 1960s. The high-keyed color, formal rigor and sheer graphic intensity of these paintings set Krushenick apart from his contemporaries.

Craft earned a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and was an associate professor of painting there from 1955 to 1966.

He also taught at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Cooper Union and the School of Visual Arts in New York.

“Pure Abstractions from the Collection” is on display through Dec. 7 at the Butler, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown. Admission is free. For more information, go to butlerart.com or call 330-743-1107.