September's Bounty: Color, Surface, Gesture

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While hard-edge paintings were the subject of the previous post, here we look at surface and gesture --the lusciously messy and the rigorously sensual--from the Lower East Side to Chelsea and back.





Stephen Maine: Installation view of New Paintings at Hionas Gallery, with P15-0720, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 inches, in the foreground





We start with Stephen Maine at Hionas