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Lower East Side Galleries: Driven to Abstraction

A selection of work in current shows, from top: Two works by Todd Chilton at Feature Inc; Two details of 'Bitches Brew' by Julia Dault at 11 Rivington; Moira Dryer at 11 Rivington,  Lori Ellison at McKenzie Fine Art; Ted Larsen at Lesley Heller Workspace; Moira Dryer at 11 Rivington. 

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opens tonight, Jan 11, 6-8p: “Stairs and Ramps”  Todd Chilton Feature Inc Gallery, 131 Allen St., NYC Todd Chilton’s relatively small and intensely colored abstract oil paintings layer patterns that are bounded by the edge of the canvas, leading you to believe these paintings are easily graspable. The exhibition title, Stairs and Ramps, references the flat and manipulated space of computer games and, as well, ways to move by foot or wheelchair through architectural space. At the same time, it is also just two ways to graphically read a triangle, the shape that is the basis of the patterns in most of these paintings. Titles of the paintings point to alternate readings of what may be initially perceived. Geometry is undermined by handedness.

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"I have the feeling that nothing is invisible if you really look carefully enough"

Works on paper by the Dutch artist Kinke Kooi at Feature Inc. From top: The Flower and Her Inner Focus 5, 2013; Art and Science, 2013; Measuring Is Knowing (detail), 2013; When Things Get Tense, 2013; The Flower and Her Inner Focus 3, 2013. All works courtesy Feature Inc. 

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thru Dec 22: “the flower and her inner focus”  Kinke Kooi   Feature Inc Gallery, 131 Allen St., NYC (bt Delancey & Rivington) “For me, in a strange way, decoration has to do with making connections. That’s why I fill in spaces in between: to dissolve opposition. To be overwhelmed by nature is to dissolve into a bigger whole. It is an inclusive situation, which for me is the same as a domestic situation… I think femininity still deserves and needs to be visualized from more perspectives. I would like to fill in these gaps in our visual information.” —Kinke Kooi, November 2013 pictured: "The Flower and Her Inner Focus 3", 2013; acrylic paint, graphite, colored pencil on paper; 53.75 x 53.75”

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Lisa Beck, These I & These V 2011 - stainless steel spheres and steel posts 

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Driven to Abstraction:

The void is nothing but at in works at the Venice Biennale this year, where abstraction has form, function, and coded messages, ranging from the mediumistic paintings of Hilma af Klint to anonymous Tantric works from India representing Shiva Linga. Details of Sarah Sze's work for the United States Pavilion and Bashir Makhoul's installation representing Palestine--crowd-sourced boxes that create a shantytown in a Venice garden--round out the selection.

From top: Anonymous (Sanganer), Tantric painting, Shiva linga, 2004, unspecified paint on found paper. Courtesy Feature Inc; Hilma af Klint,  The Dove, No. 12, 1915 © Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk and Moderna Museet. Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet;  Sarah Sze, detail of installation Triple Point (Planetarium), 2013, ©Sarah Sze, Courtesy the artist, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, and Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Bashir Makhoul, Giardino Occupato (detail-in-situ), 2013. Photo © Robin Cembalest.

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Josh Podoll - Untitled, 2012