In border-line-cubist tree portraits such as her frieze-like “Thicket” (2013) Evelyn Twitchell delivers a vintage modernist distillation of the geometric and the organic with both urgency and poise. Her penetrating explorations of growth and form include powerful yet crystalline sculptural reliefs in painted clay such as “Trunk” (2012). In whatever medium, Twitchell’s work exemplifies her stated intention to range in vision from the immersive to the closely observed. DAVID COHEN
Evelyn Twitchell, Thicket, 2013. Oil on canvas, 24 x 52 inches. Courtesy of the Artist
May 21 to June 15, 2013 at the Bowery Gallery, 530 West 25th Street between 10th and 11th avenues, New York City, 646 230 665
