Sharon Lawless

At Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY, Slightly Ajar, Sharon Lawless’s second exhibition with the gallery, she continues to use found materials — discarded packaging, paint samples, wrapping paper and altered pages from auction catalogs — in her manipulation of two modern traditions, collage and geometric abstraction as she explores the tension between accident and control and how this tension effects perception. Lawless writes, “I’m attempting to engage the viewer by exploring spatial and color relationships, scale, the similarity between packaging and architecture, and the ways that manipulating visual logic can animate what we see.”

I like the altered perspectives, the faux textures, overlap, and created line in the compositions. In some, the use of the negative space is compelling.