On View: February 5 to March 5

Opening Reception: Friday, February 12 from 6 to 9 p

Painting is the focal point of the current exhibitions at Katzman Contemporary.

With James Gardner’s Painting Eaters, the viewer confronts densely layered amorphous organisms: the paint cannibalizes the surfaces; the surfaces glow with effervescent and earthy hues; the raw construction materials expand on top of each other creating inspired imaginary landscapes.

With April Hickox’s Provenance Unknown, the viewer engages with photographs of paintings that are no longer paintings: the canvases were abandoned; the canvases were destroyed; the stretchers were resold; the resulting photographs reveal the void that remains.

These exhibitions indulge in the seductiveness of materiality and juxtapose current reconsiderations of what constitutes the painting-as-object.