featuresa featured item from THE LIST
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Linda Daniels at A.M. Richards

Linda Daniels, Small Square Blue, 2009. Oil on linen, 16 x 16 inches, Courtesy A.M. Richard Fine Art
Linda Daniels, Small Square Blue, 2009. Oil on linen, 16 x 16 inches, Courtesy A.M. Richard Fine Art

If there is a neo-reductivist revolution afoot in painting, Linda Daniels could be its Robespierre, so ruthlessly doctrinaire do her oil in linen squares seem. (A. M. Richards, 328 Berry Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, (917) 570-1476, through May 24- tomorrow.) But it has been so long since we’ve experienced painting as a site with ground rules that her strict discipline feels like a longed for release. Restraint is sexy here, with vibrant springtime color and geometric patterning that is decidedly floral, but cut with dangerously sharp blades.

This was an artcritical PIC in May 2009

print