An alchemist of form, process, and imagery, while remaining a thoroughly modern painter of complex and thought-provoking paintings. Taaffe’s work is a synthesis of processes and techniques; silkscreens, stencils, collage, marbling, staining, and many other modes of picture-making are all interwoven by Taaffe into richly complex and highly meditative canvases. An encyclopedic range of imagery results […]

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 […]