Polly Yates culls old photographs from flea markets around Berlin and cuts and weaves abstract forms that force the viewer to come closer and view a fragmented shape interwoven with what once was the representational image of a time long past.
Dancers and female painters figure in her second New York gallery show, evoked in images culled from oldphotographs and rendered in simplified shapes that sometimes merge in a surface brushiness or are outlined in the manner of cartoons.