At first glance, Emil Michael Klein's series seemed of a piece: a kind of allover (anti--RRB- painting featuring decorous lattices of biomorphic shapes in a retro palette of Day - Glo orange, yellow, and red; color fields connected by an artery - like network of pale lineation. (artforum.com)
To lure us into that zone, Burckhardt fills his paintings with biomorphic shapes that border on caricature, faintly and sometimes strongly evoking the iconography of Pacific Northwest Native American tribes, the Tlingit in particular. (gregorylindgallery.com)
Their overall forms suggest biomorphic shapes in modernist abstract painting. (hyperallergic.com)