January 2021
Emma McIntyre at Chris Sharp Gallery
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 and bodily. Each is layered with rich underpainting, then an array of painterly moves (washes of color, dripping pools of paint, small staccato brush marks,…
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Jovencio De La Paz at Chris Sharp
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 software called BioNumeric Organism that De La Paz adapted with a computer engineer. The pieces not only push the boundaries of fibers to their literal…
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A Minor Constellation at Chris Sharp
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 larger, grander pieces. But here, the compact works each feel like their own portal, doorways into each artist’s individual working style, subject, and process. Dan…
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