By Mario Naves 1/30/06 12:00am

Unabashedly Under the Influence: Powerful Tributes to Precedent

The exhibition of paintings by Kyle Staver, on display at the Lohin Geduld Gallery, is the most heartening thing I’ve seen in weeks—and not because she spelled my name correctly. In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that The New York Observer, and this column, are featured in Ms. Staver’s Wednesday’s Paper (2004). Read More

By Mario Naves 12:00am

Julie Evans’ Infinite Vistas Inspired by Indian Miniature Art

You want ravishing, I’ll give you ravishing. Metaphor Contemporary Art, nestled among the antique shops dotting Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn, is exhibiting a stunning group of abstract paintings by Julie Evans. Ms. Evans juxtaposes delicately rendered ornamental motifs—a mandala-like circle is the linchpin of her pictorial vocabulary—against grainy runs of paint, setting in motion Read More