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Review: K Contemporary and Space Offer Different Takes on Abstraction (mar 2019)

The Alyson Khan section along the long wall and the south wall at Space is very impressive, even eye-popping. At first Khan's paintings have the air of mathematical compositions, with assemblages of large colored bars with narrow joints between them. Upon closer look, though, the arrangements are much more intuitive, with Khan drawing off many sources, from art deco patterns to tribal marks. Working against the straight lines between the shapes as well as all the pin-striping are the irregular margins of the compositions against the rectilinear stretched canvases on which they’ve been painted. Also contrasting the precisionist nature of her shapes is the apparently hand-done quality of the brushwork.

Michael Paglia