A group painting show in Mid City takes up the notion that bigger is not always better. The exhibition gathers small-scale works by over 30 painters, with each modestly-sized piece hung at eye level in a spacious line around the gallery walls. Scale tends to denote importance, with smaller works often perceived as studies for […]
At Chris Sharp Gallery, Jovencio De La Paz’s woven wall pieces push the fragility of thread against the rigid constraints of computer programming. The dimension-defying woven works, made using a digitally assisted Jacquard loom, contain mind-bogglingly complex surfaces with deep ridges and valleys. Some pieces on view were created using a version of a 1950s […]
In Mid-City, Chris Sharp, the former proprietor of Mexico City’s Lulu, has just opened up a new gallery space, the outside of which is painted a lush sky blue. Inside, Emma McIntyre’s paintings evoke a different type of landscape—her abstract works swirl with various brush marks, scrapes and drips, and subtly elicit landscapes both earthen […]
