I didn't manage to blog about the High-Def group show at Gregory Lind Gallery while it was still open, but I'm doing so now because it totally ruled. Consisting of abstract work from five different artists, the show concentrated on the more precise end of abstraction where the lines often have sharp edges and geometry holds a strong influence. Leonhard Hurzlmeier's paintings (pictured here) are downright symmetrical even as their visible layers reveal the artist's process, while Aaron Parazette's shaped canvases are slick paeans to contrasting color and read as simultaneously futuristic and retro. Don Voisine creates work on wood panels that made me think of the dark brushstrokes of Franz Kline...well, maybe if Kline had ever gone Pop Art. And the oblique architectural references in Voisine's art are more fully explored in Jake Longstreth's Matinee, a paintings that flattens its representation of a building into something approaching pure pattern. My favorite pieces were by Chris Corales, however, a series of small folding books made of grey cardboard whose creases are lined with colored tape and into which he has pasted spare scraps of paper. Probably the least "high-def" of all the work in the show, but so simple and so perfect.
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