Eye - catching paintings included Clayton Colvin's probing multilayered works shown by Beta Pictoris (Birmingham, AL), Diana Copperwhite's
colorful but lugubrious canvases at 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, the acid - distressed oils of Sara Hoppe from Dresden's M2A gallery, Ethiopian painter Tegene Kunbi's strangely doleful striations of color at Margaret Thatcher Gallery's
booth, Chris Trueman's hypnotically undulating grids from Adah Rose Gallery (Kensington, MD), and a brace of
small paintings by Jill Baroff, Astrid Bowlby, and Allyson Strafella at Philadelphia's Gallery Joe.