Aaron Parazette. Color Key 6, 2009; acrylic on linen. This two-person show featuring brightly hued, hard-edged geometric paintings and rough-hewn monochromatic sculptures, is tied together by the artists' use of a post-minimalist vocabulary and a focus on craft. Aaron Parazette's abstract geometric paintings on shaped canvases recall those of Ellsworth Kelly and Robert Mangold, albeit with a highly keyed-up palette and on a more intimate scale. Like these artists, Parazette's works are self-contained worlds. Planes of colors, arranged in grids or concentric circles, are cropped by the edges of the unusually shaped supports. They are often continued on contiguous... Read More

Garden Ruin--the third exhibition at Gregory Lind Gallery for London-based artist Bob Matthews--reflects his continued exploration of the natural world, civilization and technology. In his previous two shows, Matthews presented pictures in the form of "digital drawings" and "digital Cibachromes." Those glossy, computer-generated images revealed an assured, aseptic approach to landscape, complicating their depiction of natural, lived-in spaces. In Garden Ruin, he has taken a decidedly more organic and abstracted approach in presenting four oil and acrylic paintings on panel, three ink jet prints, and one lithograph. Matthews' adventuresome aptitude across different media suggests a restless fascination with the encounters... Read More

Pulling down the bricks from the ceiling at SoEx's old exhibition space or appearing as a parasitic echo of the stairway at YBCA, Christian Maychack's site-specific sculptures have regularly appeared at the periphery of group shows. It is in the overlooked infrastructure of gallery spaces that Maychack's work is best situated to rupture the expectations of the viewer. By engaging in a conversation with the site and its materials, the content of his work is pushed beyond abstraction and into the situational. As a result, isolating the work in the frame of a solo exhibition and presenting it without the... Read More