Her densely packed
paintings are also in the abstract expressionist or
painterly abstraction traditions, but she brings a stylistic maturity and technical finesse to her work that is
lacking in some of the painters on view in Richmond.
If the
painterly side of this work looks back to de Kooning's practice of hanging abstract compositions on letter shapes, and the linguistic aspect engages conceptual art, it's the apparent nonchalance of the
paintings, their complete
lack of pretense or fussiness, that marks them as belonging to NOW.