As Is

Kristopher Raos’ “Open Late/ ‘7 Days a Week’” on view at As Is is a concise presentation of paintings that pull a visual language from the streets of LA into the sphere of minimal hard-edge paintings. “Untitled (99 cents Y’Not)” could be a riff on Ellsworth Kelly’s green and blue geometric canvases, save for the red 99¢ in the center of the composition. In the lower left corner, a barely visible alligator cartoon says  “Y’Not” in a speech bubble. In…