Hot on the heels of his fantastic show at [2nd floor projects] earlier this fall Bruno Fazzolari is currently displaying four similarly excellent paintings and a bottle of eau de toilette at Jancar Jones Gallery. The paintings are abstractions and all utilize a shared visual vocabulary: perforated blue lines around their borders, thick yellow streaks on the interior with other colors scribbled and dabbed on top, plenty of canvas left empty. As in the best abstract works everything comes together to form a coherent whole with color here balanced against negative space and held in by those blue boundary lines. As for the eau de toilette, a classic musky cologne that would work well on either a man or a woman, the visitor is welcome to apply it at will and in that way carry a physical remnant of the exhibition out of the gallery with them. I appreciated the witty reference to the impressions we take away with us after we look at art, and how a person's individual chemistry (or temperament) can trigger completely different reactions.
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