Essays

Francie Lyshak and Francine Tint are painters who work non-representationally. They speak two different abstract vernaculars. And the abstractions in Space & Being are slow reads. The mental, associational, and psychical dynamics that pervade are long-lasting. Such dynamics take their time to work on you as they come from different angles or vectors of experience.

                                                                    -- Dominique Nahas

The photographs in Nancy Macko's Decompositions series present amorphous forms

floating in a watery ether. 

Light streaks through the compositions, muted slightly by a translucent film that gives the whole composition the soft patina of an old master painting.

The images hover between abstraction and representation. 

Recognizable scraps of organic waste - a striated piece of onion skin, a curl of orange rind, the softly undulating rumple of a cabbage leaf - come together to suggest mysterious landscapes, human bodies, strange sea creatures and soft folds of fabric.