“Reinventing (Provisional Painting) [as] ‘Impure {Abstraction'” Out of Bounds}

  Art critic and poet Raphael Rubinstein has curated an exhibit, “Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s,” which is up through the end of August at Cheim & Read (547 25th st. NY). In his exhibition catalog essay,*

Power Flight

Joe Overstreet’s Power Flight can be seen at the Brooklyn Museum.  The work, made in 1971, consists of multiple canvas panel– six of them– stained with acrylic.  The panels alternate red and black, except at the machine-sewn seams, which have