And so there is an eye staring back at you from the beginning of this exhibition, an apt figure for work that rigorously explores how, if we can briefly interrupt the unconscious act of seeing, the eye works in myriad complicated and dizzying ways. Many prints explore ideas related to mapping, reductionist and appealing surfaces that organize space in congenial ways. Others carefully balance elements (a coffee tin filled with paint brushes, a wood-grain pattern, a background of color crosshatches) in such a way that the eye is uncertain whether to read them “up” or “down,” to inflate the visual code into a fully three-dimensional representation, or dematerialize anything “real” in them and let the image be all jazz and color on the surface.
Source: Washington Post
