True to his origins, his doodled, patterned abstractions are evocative of places with plenty of sun, nature, and ocean. At times his designs become microscopic, almost as if denoting nothing more than color-dotted fields, like in his Celebration . Though both Brahwaite's and Benoit's works borrow from contemporary vocabularies and traditions in the West, they are able to impart significant issues and contexts of their own geographies. No work in the show necessarily connects with the show's title, which throws off expectations and is a welcoming change. The pieces are brought together by process, according to Cordova.
Patterns seem to shift by way of color moods.
Surprisingly, the self-revealing optic illusions are guided by the languid pulse of the force of gravity. Gavin Perry's Switches is a handsome painting, dense with odd semiotic humor. The combination of luster, parsimony, and color resolution took me to a moment in American car history. Two equidistant clippers in this large, olive-green polished flat space put us inside a cruising 1968 Cutlass Oldsmobile. Perry's color squares in the adjacent room, with shifting rectangular bands, pleasantly drift toward warmer moods.