Doig's compositional strategies
combined with his
odd and intense
color schemes have garnered comparisons to artists as diverse as Pieter Bruegel, Edvard Munch, Pierre Bonnard, Barnett Newman, Alex Katz, Edward Hopper, and Gerhard Richter.
... — nothing fussy, nothing wasted — was the prevailing style for many of the most exciting gallery shows, whether Maggie Lee and her charming childhood - channeling dioramas in fish tanks at Real Fine Arts, or Theodore Sefcik and his bewitching animations in the basement of 247365, which
combine the aesthetics of early computer games and early
color video art, or Annie Pearlman and her sui generis paintings at White Columns, which feature shifting planes of flat
color and vaguely nightmarish cityscapes — really
odd, really wonderful.