Joan Boykoff Baron and Reuben M. Baron on Milton Avery, Sally Michel and March Avery

If nature was his springboard, as Avery once famously declared, then in this body of work nature is also the lens through which he experienced the city.

Robert Ryman PaceWildenstein until January 8 (534 W. 25th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, 212-929-7000). Milton Avery: Onrushing Waves Knoedler & Company until January 29 (19 E. 70th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues, 212-794-0550). Just as representation alters the way we view reality, abstraction has the same effect on representation itself: it has … Continued