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The superhero plays the talin FA protein that would either be carried away unstretched or remain on the substrate.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

Her installations, which she’s called “expanded paintings,” feature meaningful detritus scavenged from the city’s streets and embedded into unstretched canvases whose fields of color evoke the abstractions of Sam Gilliam.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

What’s cool about the unstretched canvas — you can completely fold it.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 26, 2022

By the late 1960s, a few other painters had begun to experiment with unstretched canvases, among them Richard Tuttle in New York and William T. Wiley in San Francisco.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022

Unstretch, un-strech′, v.i. to become unstretched or relaxed.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various